Troïlos

In the Greek Mythology, Troïlos or Troïlus (in Greek old Τρωΐλος / Trôïlos ) is a Trojan prince , one of wire of Hécube.

Myth

According to Homère, it is the son of Priam. The Pseudo-Apollodore rather makes of him the son of Apollon. Its death is not told in Iliade . On the other hand, it is it in the Songs cypriens , one of the epopee S of the Trojan Cycle: Troïlos is surprised by Achille whereas it makes water his horses. Continued to the furnace bridge of Thymbréen Apollo, he is decapitated and its head is thrown to Troyens which come to its help.

Whereas Homère shows Troïlos as an adult warrior (the epithet describing it is ἱπποχάρμης / hippokharmès , i.e. “with the tank of war”), the Cycle rather describes it like a young boy. Quintus of Smyrna in fact a young person and beautiful warlike:

“This wire of Hécube carried it of good far on all the boys of the divine Troy; however its beauty did not serve to him as nothing. ”
(transl. Francis Vian)

In the Éphéméride of the Trojan War , Troïlos belongs to twelve young Troyens captured by Achille and cut the throat of then in front of the Bûcher Patrocle.

Posterity

The character is taken again by Benoît of Holy-Moor in the Novel of Troy . The author metamorphoses the young warrior as an unhappy lover of cruel Cressida, which gives up it for the Greek Diomède. This account is taken again Shakespeare in its part Troïlus and Cressida like by Geoffrey Chaucer in Troilus and Criseyde .

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