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Myrmidons

Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Myrmidons
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

0

No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

0

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

1
·Reported

The Myrmidons are reported to have returned home safely under Neoptolemus.

See evidence text
“the Myrmidons returned home safely under Achilles’ son Neoptolemus”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

3
·Reported
“They say the Myrmidons returned home safely”
·Direct
“the city of the Myrmidons”
·Reported
“rule among the Myrmidons”

Passage preview

Book 3 · Passage 16

‘Therefore, my dear young friend, I returned without hearing anything about the others. I know neither who got home safely nor who were lost but, as in duty bound, I will give you without reserve the reports that have reached me since I have been here in my own house. They say the Myrmidons returned home safely under Achilles’ son Neoptolemus; so also did the valiant son of Poias, Philoctetes. Idomeneus, again, lost no men at sea, and all his followers who escaped death in the field got safe home with him to Crete. No matter how far out of the world you live, you will have heard of Agamemnon and the bad end he came to at the hands of Aegisthus—and a fearful reckoning did Aegisthus presently pay. See what a good thing it is for a man to leave a son behind him to do as Orestes did, who killed false Aegisthus the murderer of his noble father. You too, then—for you are a tall smart-looking fellow—show your mettle and make yourself a name in story.’