Pandarus (son of Alkanor)
Pandaros ( Greek Πάνδαρος , Latin Pandarus ) is the son of Alkanor and a companion of Aeneas in Roman mythology .
In Virgil's Aeneid , the only source of Pandaros, he is the brother of Bitias and is brought up together with him by the wood nymph Iaira in the sacred grove of Iuppiter . When the king of the Rutulians , Turnus , attacks the city of Aeneas and his companions, the gigantic brothers proudly and trusting in their swords open the gate of the fortification. But when the Rutulians immediately storm into the city and Bitias sinks to the ground, fatally hit, Pandaros recognizes the mistake, closes the gate, but thereby also excludes some of the companions of Aeneas, some of the Rutulians - and among them their leader Turnus - in the fortress.
Pandaros recognizes Turnus in the fray and calls him to fight because of the death of his brother, furious. However, while his lance is distracted by Iuno and gets stuck in the wooden city gate, the sword stroke of the Rotus hits its target and splits the skull of Pandaro, which falls dead to the ground.
Virgil and the two brothers created replicas of Polypoites and Leonteus who guarded the gates of the Greeks in Homer's Iliad .
swell
- Virgil, Aeneis 9, 672-683, 722-755; 11, 396.
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Pandaros 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 1505 ( digitized version ).
Remarks
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 12: 129-137.