Thalpios

Thalpios ( ancient Greek Θάλπιος ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

He is the son of Eurytus and grandson of the Aktor . He was a participant in the Trojan War and was, along with Amphimachus , Diores and Polyxeinus, one of the four leaders of the Epiphany . For the train to Troy he provided ten ships , according to Homer , who otherwise does not mention it.

According to Quintus of Smyrna , a Greek poet of the late 3rd century AD, he was one of those Greeks who hid in the Trojan Horse . In the library of Apollodorus he belonged with Amphimachus and Polyxeinus to the suitors of Helen . His grave was in Elis .

literature

• Karl Scherling: Thalpios. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VA, 1, Stuttgart 1934, column 1230.
• Hermann Easter : Thalpios . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, column 463 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Pausanias 5, 1, 2 and 5, 3, 3 f .; Eustathios , commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem 2, 618-624.
2. ↑ Homer, Iliad 2, 618-624; so also Dares 14 and Dictys 1, 17.
3. ↑ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 12, 323.
4. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 10, 8; so also Hyginus , Fabulae 81.
5. ↑ Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et appendice nova epigrammatum veterum 9, 18.