In Greek mythology, Panthous (Ancient Greek Πάνθοος), son of Othrys and so called Othryades, is a Trojan elder who sits with Priam at the Scaean gates. Husband of Phrontis (or Pronome), he is father of the counsellor Polydamas, the spearman Euphorbus, and Hyperenor. Later tradition makes him a Delphic priest of Apollo carried to Troy; Virgil shows him lamenting on the night of the city's fall.
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I.Family and Iliadic role
Homer places Panthous among the Trojan elders at the Scaean gates with Priam, Thymoetes, Lampus, Clytius, Hicetaon, Ucalegon, and Antenor — men of prudence who have ceased from battle but remain sweet speakers. His wife is the "queenly" Phrontis; alternatively Pronome, daughter of Clytius.
His sons shape the war: Polydamas, born the same night as Hector, is far the best in counsel where Hector bears the spear; Euphorbus first wounds Patroclus from behind before Menelaus kills him; Hyperenor also falls among the Trojans.
II.Later tradition
Servius and related antiquarian notices say Panthous was originally a priest of Apollo at Delphi. When Priam, after Heracles destroyed Troy, sent a son of Antenor to inquire about rebuilding, that envoy was charmed by Panthous' beauty and carried him off; at Priam's will he continued as Apollo's priest in Troy.
Hyginus credits him with killing four Greeks. In the Aeneid he laments Troy's fate on the night of the fall with his baby grandson in his arms and is killed by a Greek. A statue of him stood with other Trojan elders in Thebes in Egypt.
III.Homonyms
This atlas entry (panthous-trojan) is the Trojan elder, father of Polydamas and Euphorbus. He is not to be merged with unrelated later bearers of similar names; his sons have their own nodes (polydamas, euphorbus-trojan).