Dolon

In the Greek Mythology, Dolon (in Greek old Δόλων / Dólôn , of δόλος / dólos , “the trick”) is a Trojan combatant of the Trojan War. Its history is iliade reported in particular to song X of , called for this reason Dolonie , and in the tragedy Rhésos , allotted to Euripide.

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He is the only son, on six children, of the Héraut Eumède (or Eumélos). Of a rather average imposing presence, it is on the other hand particularly swift with the race. When Hector promises the tank of Achille with his two divine horses in reward with that which will go in the camp of the Achaens, in order to know their intentions, it is Dolon which proposes. It leaves in the night covered a skin wolf but is surprised by Diomède and Ulysses. It is constrained to reveal the provisions of the Trojan army before being killed by Diomède.

Dolon is, following the example Thersite for the Greeks, a Trojan Anti-héros. It is the only one that Homère describes like ugly. This physical ugliness is with the image of a moral ugliness: boasting, he claims the divine horses of the Achilles, best of the Achaens, whereas itself is an unknown warrior, basic extraction. Like Pâris, not very famous for its courage, Dolon revêt of skins of animal (skin garment of gray wolf and helmet in marten), but without to take warlike qualities of these animals.

Virgile lends a son, Eumède, companion of to him Énée in Italy.

Sources

  • (IV, 4).

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  • (X, 199-456).
  • (XII, 346-352).

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