Galaxy/The codex of Hippodamas

Trojan whom Achilles smote upon the back with a thrust of his spear as he leapt down from his car and fled before him, bellowing like a bull dragged to the altar — Apollodorus counts Hippodamas among Priam's sons by other women, distinct from the Calydonian eponym father of Euryte.1

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Hippodamas thereafter, as he leapt down from his car and fled before him, Achilles smote upon the back with a thrust of his spear. And as he breathed forth his spirit he gave a bellowing cry, even as a bull that is dragged belloweth, when young men drag him about the altar of the lord of Helice; for in such doth the Shaker of Earth delight; even so bellowed Hippodamas, as his lordly spirit left his bones.2

the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story

BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Hippodamas — art, artifacts and echoes.

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