Axylus
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Axylus is mentioned in Book VI of Homer
's Iliad
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Homer
In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
's Iliad
Iliad
The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...
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- DiomedesDiomedesDiomedes or Diomed is a hero in Greek mythology, known for his participation in the Trojan War.He was born to Tydeus and Deipyle and later became King of Argos, succeeding his maternal grandfather, Adrastus. In Homer's Iliad Diomedes is regarded alongside Ajax as one of the best warriors of all...
, expert in war cries, killed Axylus, - son of Teuthranus, a rich man, from well-built ArisbeArisbeArisbe may refer to:* Another name for Batea , a person in Greek mythology* Arisbe , an early wife of King Priam of Troy, also daughter of the seer Merops of Percote...
. - People really loved him, for he lived beside a road,
- welcomed all passers-by into his home.
- But not one of those men he'd entertained now stood
- in front of him, protecting him from wretched death.
- Diomedes took the lives of two men--Axylus,
- and his attendant CalesiusCalesiusIn Greek mythology, Calesius was the attendant and charioteer of Axylus. He is mentioned in Book VI of Homer's Iliad where he is killed by Diomedes....
, his charioteer. - So both men went down into the underworld.