For other people with the same name, see Polydorus.
Ecuba acceca Polimestore (Hecuba blinds Polymestor), painted by Giuseppe Maria Crespi (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
Polydorus or Polydoros (/ˌpɒlɪˈdɔːrəs/; Ancient Greek: Πολύδωρος, i.e. "many-gift[ed]") is the youngest son of Priam in the mythology of the Trojan War. While Homer states his mother is Laothoe, later sources state his mother is Hecuba. Polydorus is an example of the fluid nature of myth, as his role and story vary significantly in different traditions and sources.
Greek epic the Iliad, Polydorus is depicted briefly as a foe to Achilles. According to this source, Polydorus was the youngest son of Priam, and thus his...
mythology, Polydorus (/ˌpɒlɪˈdɔːrəs/; Ancient Greek: Πολύδωρος, i.e. "many-gift[ed]") or Polydoros referred to several different people. Polydorus, son of Phineus...
(Greeks) against the city ofTroy after Paris ofTroy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events...
and Polydorus. Priam was killed when he was around 80 years old by Achilles' son Neoptolemus. In Book 3 of Homer's Iliad, Priam tells Helen ofTroy that...
of the fall ofTroy, including Hecuba's enslavement by Odysseus. Hecuba also takes place just after the fall ofTroy. Polydorus, the youngest son of Priam...
Deiphobus, Helenus, Pammon, Polites, Antiphus, Hipponous, Polydorus, Troilus (Troilus may be the son of Apollo), Laodice, Polyxena, Cassandra and Creusa. In...
the Greeks to kill the son of Priam, he killed Deipylus instead, his own son, taking him for Polydorus. The real Polydorus thus survived and escaped....
ordered his son Polydorus to carry Troy's gold to his step-brother to keep it from the Greeks. At the right of the painting Polydorus is killed en route...
Helen ofTroy. He is then obliged to take a blood oath in defense of her marriage to Menelaus. After Patroclus accidentally kills the son of one of his...
Odyssey, Homer describes Odysseus' journey home from Troy. Prior to the Trojan War, Odysseus was King of Ithaca, a Greek island known for its isolation and...
odes provides a list of seven completely different names: Anicetus, Chersibius, Mecistophonus, Menebrontes, Patrocles, Polydorus, Toxocleitus. Other well-known...
Hector, Paris, Deiphobus, Helenus, Pammon, Polites, Antiphus, Hipponous, Polydorus, and the daughters Creusa, Laodice, Polyxena, and the prophetess Cassandra...
with Polydorus, youngest son of Priam and brother of Iliona. The latter reared his brother as her own son so that if anything happened to either of them...
young Labdacus, the son ofPolydorus and Nycteis. During the regency of Nycteus, Thebes (Cadmea) made war against Epopeus, the king of Sicyon, who had abducted...
tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall ofTroy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Written by the...
with only a few handfuls of words. Parts of the closing sequence, describing the fate ofTroy's women and the sacrifice of Priam's daughter at Achilles'...
Polydore (Polydorus) is an opera by the French-Italian composer Jean-Baptiste Stuck, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera)...
This is a list of mythological characters who appear in narratives concerning the Trojan War. * See Catalogue of Ships ** See Trojan Battle Order This...
bravery of a mysterious young man and demands to know his identity. Glaucus replies: "Hippolochus begat me. I claim to be his son, and he sent me to Troy with...
member of the fifth generation of beings following the (mythological) creation of the world: With Harmonia, he was the father of Semele, Polydorus, Autonoe...
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