Thrasymedes (mythology)

Thrasymedes ( Greek  Θρασυμήδης ) is a hero of Greek mythology .

Thrasymedes is a son of Nestor , in Homer his mother is given as Eurydice , in the library of Apollodorus, however, Anaxibia . His siblings are Peisidike , Polycaste , Aretus , Stratichos , Peisistratos , Echephron , Antilochus and Perseus .

In the Iliad he is a participant in the Trojan War together with his father and brother Antilochus . As one of eight leaders, he moves with a hundred men below Troy to avert the threatening defeat of the Achaeans by setting up guard camps . He gives his shield and sword to Diomedes when he sets off for the Trojans' camp with Odysseus and a scouting party. In the battle he fights on the side of Antilochus and kills the Lycian Maris when he threatens his brother. Later he is sent to help the Pylians . In contrast to his brother, he survived the war and returned to his homeland: In the Odyssey , he appears at a cow sacrifice in honor of the god Poseidon as the one who kills the sacrificial animal with the ax.

Hyginus Mythographus reports that Thrasymedes set out for Troy with fifteen ships, and during the war he killed not one, but two enemies. This variant of the myth is supported by a fragment of a Tabula Iliaca on which a Nikainetus is found as an opponent of Thrasymedes. In the posthomerica of Quintus of Smyrna , he tries in vain to push Memnon away from the corpse of his fallen brother during the fight . He is also named among those who are hidden in the Trojan horse and who open the gates of Troy at night.

In Pausanias his participation is only mentioned in the Trojan War, but he is here as the father of Sillos and grandfather of Alkmaion designated, from which the Athenian noble family of Alcmaeonidae was derived. His tomb is said to have been near Pylos, and he was represented together with his brother in a painting by the painter Omphalion , which was in the Temple of Messene .

literature

• Ludwig Ruhl : Thrasymedes 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Col. 865 f. ( Digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 9.
2. ↑ Homer, Ilias 9 , 81st
3. ↑ Homer, Iliad 10: 255-259.
4. ↑ Homer, Iliad 16, 321 ff.
5. ↑ Homer, Iliad 17, 705 ff.
6. ↑ Homer Odyssey 3, 443.
7. ^ Hyginus Mythographos, Fabulae 97.
8. ^ Hyginus Mythographos, Fabulae 114.
9. ↑ CIG 6126 B.
10. ^ Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 2, 342.
11. ^ Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 12, 319.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Pausanias 4, 31, 11.
13. ^ Pausanias 2:18 , 8.
14. ^ Pausanias 4:36 , 2.