Polites (son of Priam)
Polites ( Greek Πολίτης ) is a figure in Greek mythology . He is one of the sons of the Trojan king Priam and Hecabe .
His role on the side of the Trojans in the Trojan War is that of a scout who controls the area around the city from high up. The messenger of the gods Iris takes his form and announces the approach of the Greeks to the Trojans. He intervened in the fighting at an early age and at Hector's side helped his youngest brother Troilos , who was being pursued by Achilles outside the city walls - a scene that is depicted on the François vase , among other things , and presumably originated in Cyprus . He brings his brother Deiphobos , wounded by the Cretan general Meriones , to the chariot, and kills Echios himself . In the Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus he is one of the defenders of the Skaean Gate.
In Virgil's Aeneid , Polites, the last son of Priam, finds death, whom he receives from the hand of Neoptolemus in front of his parents. Quintus Smyrnaeus also lets him fall from Neoptolemus' hand at the altar, albeit not as the last son, while Dictys lets him perish in a fight with Aiax and others outside the city.
At Virgil, Polites had a descendant named Priam , who founded the city of Politorium in Latium .
Remarks
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 24,250; Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 12, 5; Hyginus , Fabulae 90.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 2, 790-806.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 13: 533-535.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 15,339.
- ↑ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 11, 338-344.
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 2, 526-532.
- ↑ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 13, 214.
- ^ Dictys, Ephemeris belli Troiani 2, 43.
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 5, 564.
- ↑ Cato , Origines 2 fr. 54 P.
literature
- Johannes Ilberg : Polites 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2620 f. ( Digitized version ).