In Greek mythology, Epistrophus (Ancient Greek: Ἐπίστροφος) was a Phocian leader in the Trojan War, son of Iphitus by Hippolyte or Thrasybule and brother of Schedius. Counted among the suitors of Helen, he co-commanded forty ships from Cyparissus, rocky Pytho, and the Cephisus towns; later tradition says Hector killed him and that the brothers' bones were buried at Anticyra.
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I.Phocian captain
Homer sets Epistrophus with his brother Schedius, sons of Iphitus son of Naubolus, at the head of the Phocians in the Catalogue of Ships. They led men from Cyparissus and rocky Pytho, sacred Crisa, Daulis, Panopeus, Anemoreia, and Hyampolis beside the goodly river Cephisus. Forty black ships followed them, ranged hard by the Boeotians when the Phocian ranks were marshalled.
Apollodorus likewise counts the pair among the Achaean captains. Epistrophus was numbered among Helen's suitors and therefore among the oath-bound leaders who sailed against Troy. Later notices say Hector killed him in the war; both brothers' bones were carried home and buried at Anticyra, where a purported tomb was shown into Roman times.
II.Homonyms
This atlas entry (epistrophus-phocis) is the Phocian son of Iphitus. Distinct from Epistrophus the Halizone co-captain with Odius (epistrophus-halizone), an ally of Troy from Alybe.