Galaxy/The codex of Ophelestes

Paeonian whom Achilles slew beside Scamander in the rout after Asteropaeus — a namesake of Ophelestes the Trojan whom peerless Teucer laid low in an earlier battle.1

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When the Paeonians fled along the river after their champion's death, Achilles drove them in rout and slew Ophelestes among the last of the company named with Thersilochus, Mydon, Astypylus, Mnesus, Thrasius, and Aenius.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 Ophelestes — art, artifacts and echoes.

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