Areilycus

Areilycus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρηίλυκος) was the name of two mythical personages in Homer's Iliad. Both were ancient Trojans.

One was the father of Archesilaus and Prothoenor. He is more commonly known as Archilycus.

The other was Areilycus the son of Menoetius, who was wounded in the thigh while fleeing by Patroclus. The spear broke Areilycus's bone, and the text strongly implies that Areilycus dies from his wound.[1]

Areilycus is frequently referenced as one character in the Iliad whose death does not have any metaphor or symbolism about it, and whose involvement in the narrative seems to be a plain description of action.[2][3][4]

Notes
  1. Homer, Iliad 14.451, 16.308
  2. Felton, D. (2016). "Thigh wounds in Homer and Vergil: Cultural reality and literary metaphor". In Park, Arum (ed.). Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought: Essays in Honor of Peter M. Smith. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. Taylor & Francis. p. 246. ISBN 9781317355342. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
  3. Friedrich, Wolf Hartmut (2003). Wounding & Death in the Iliad: Homeric Techniques of Description. Duckworth Overlook. p. 133. ISBN 9780715629833. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
  4. Felton, D. (2014). "The Motif of the "Mutilated Hero" in Herodotus". Phoenix. Classical Association of Canada. 68 (1/2): 47–61. doi:10.7834/phoenix.68.1-2.0047.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Areilycus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 275.

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