Editing Pandarus (section)

==Classical literature==
In Homer's ''[[Iliad]]'', Pandarus is a renowned archer and the son of [[Lycaon (Greek myth)|Lycaon]]. Pandarus, who fought on the side of [[Troy]] in the [[Trojan War]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Belknap |first1=Jacob |title=Pandarus in The Iliad: Character Analysis |url=https://study.com/academy/lesson/pandarus-in-the-iliad-character-analysis.html |website=Study.com |access-date=12 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> and led a contingent from [[Zeleia]], first appeared in Book Two of the ''Iliad''. In Book Four, he is tricked by [[Athena]], who wishes for the destruction of Troy and assumes the form of [[Laodocus]], son of [[Antenor_(mythology)|Antenor]], to shoot and wound [[Menelaus]] with an arrow, sabotaging a truce that could potentially have led to the peaceful return of [[Helen of Troy]]. He then attempts to kill [[Diomedes]] at close range, since Athena is protecting him from his deadly arrows, while [[Aeneas]] acts as his charioteer. [[Diomedes]] narrowly survives the attack, though, retaliating with a deadly blow that knocks Pandarus out of the chariot. Diomedes then pursues [[Aeneas]], who is saved by his mother [[Aphrodite (mythology)|Aphrodite]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kline |first1=A. S. |title=Homer (c.750 BC): The Iliad Book V |url=https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Iliad5.php |website=www.poetryintranslation.com |access-date=12 December 2018 |date=2009}}</ref>

'''Pandarus''' is also the name of a companion of [[Aeneas]] in [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]''. His skull is cut in half vertically by [[Turnus]]' sword in Book IX of the Aeneid; this ending his life and causing a panic among the other Trojans.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nehrkorn |first1=Helga |title=A Homeric Episode in Vergil's Aeneid |journal=The American Journal of Philology |date=October 1971 |volume=92 |issue=4 |pages=566–584 |doi=10.2307/292664 |language=en|jstor=292664 }}</ref>