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Thoas

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Canonical name
Thoas
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
This figure appears within the story Ulysses tells while disguised.

Aliases

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son of Andraemon

Descriptive reference · Disguised

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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reed-covered ambush site by the city wall before Troy1 observation
·Disguised

Thoas was at the Trojan ambush site before running toward the ships.

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“‘On this Thoas son of Andraemon threw off his cloak and set out running to the ships, whereon I took the cloak and lay in it comfortably enough till morning. Would that I were still young and strong as I was in those days, for then some one of you swineherds would give me a cloak both out of good will and for the respect due to a brave soldier; but now people look down upon me because my clothes are shabby.’ ”

Claims

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·Remembered

Thoas, son of Andraemon, throws off his cloak and runs to the ships after Ulysses’s ruse.

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“Thoas son of Andraemon threw off his cloak and set out running to the ships”

Additional evidence

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·Disguised
“Thoas son of Andraemon”

Passage preview

Book 14 · Passage 32

‘On this Thoas son of Andraemon threw off his cloak and set out running to the ships, whereon I took the cloak and lay in it comfortably enough till morning. Would that I were still young and strong as I was in those days, for then some one of you swineherds would give me a cloak both out of good will and for the respect due to a brave soldier; but now people look down upon me because my clothes are shabby.’