Meges
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In Greek mythology, Mégês Phyleïdês (Ancient Greek: Μέγης Φυλεΐδης) was the commander of Epeans and/or Dulichians during the Trojan War.
FamilyEdit
Meges was the son of King Phyleus of Dulichium<ref>Homer, Iliad 2.627</ref> and his mother's name is variously given as either Eustyoche,<ref>Hyginus, Fabulae 97</ref> Ctimene,<ref>Eustathius ad Homer, Iliad p. 305.15; Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 577; Grimal, p. 340</ref> Ctesimache,<ref name="Tzetzes All.">Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 577</ref> Hagnete<ref>Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 576</ref> or Timandra.<ref>Eustathius ad Homer, Iliad p. 305.17; Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 249 = Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 176 (no. 46 in the Loeb edition, 1914)</ref>
Meges’ (half-)sister was Eurydameia, mother of Cleitus and Euchenor by the seer Polyidus of Corinth.<ref>Pherecydes in Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 13.663</ref>
MythologyEdit
Meges was one of the suitors of Helen,<ref>Apollodorus, 3.10.8</ref> and commanded the armies of the Echinadians and the Dulichians during the Trojan War, having summoned forty or sixty ships; he also led a contingent of Epeans who had once migrated to Dulichium together with his father.<ref name="Tzetzes All." /><ref name="Hyginus">Homer, Iliad 2.625, 5.69, 13.692 & 15.531; Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 284; Hyginus, Fabulae 97</ref>
Meges was credited with killing a number of opponents, including Pedaeus (a son of Antenor),<ref>Homer, Iliad 5.69</ref> Croesmus,<ref>Homer, Iliad 15.523</ref> Amphiclus,<ref>Homer, Iliad 16.313</ref> Itymoneus, Agelaus,<ref>Quintus Smyrnaeus, 1.279</ref> Eurymenes,<ref>Quintus Smyrnaeus, 10.108</ref> and Deiopites.<ref>Quintus Smyrnaeus, 13.212</ref> Dolops attempted to strike him with a spear but the corselet Meges was wearing, a gift for his father from Euphetes of Ephyra, saved his life.<ref>Homer, Iliad 15.525 ff.</ref> Meges helped Odysseus to collect gifts for Achilles.<ref>Homer, Iliad 19.239 ff.</ref> He was one of the men to enter the Trojan Horse.<ref>Quintus Smyrnaeus, 12.326</ref>
According to Dictys Cretensis, Meges fell at Troy.<ref>Dictys Cretensis, 3.10</ref> Pausanias mentions a painting of him wounded in the arm by a Trojan, Admetes the son of Augeas.<ref>Pausanias, 10.25.5</ref> Tzetzes relates that Meges, along with Prothous and a number of others, perished at Euboea.<ref>Tzetzes on Lycophron, 902</ref>
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- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Euripides, The Plays of Euripides, translated by E. P. Coleridge. Volume II. London. George Bell and Sons. 1891. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Euripides, Euripidis Fabulae. vol. 3. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Template:ISBN. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
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- Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. Template:ISBN