Galaxy/The codex of Pedasus

Pedasus (Ancient Greek: Πήδασος) is a Trojan warrior, twin brother of Aesepus, born to the naiad Abarbarea and Bucolion son of Laomedon. In Iliad 6 Mecisteus' son Euryalus slays both twins after killing Dresus and Opheltius. He is distinct from Achilles' captured horse Pedasus and from several towns of the same name in Caria, Messenia, and Mysia.

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I.Twin of Aesepus

Homer's Pedasus and Aesepus are twins whom the nymph Abarbarea bore to Bucolion while he shepherded. Euryalus strips their harness in the same rush that fells Dresus and Opheltius — a brief vignette in the early fighting.

The name also belongs to a swift horse Achilles took from Eetion's city and to several Anatolian and Peloponnesian places; none of those collapses into this Trojan twin.

II.Homonyms

This atlas entry (pedasus-trojan) is Bucolion's son alone. His twin is aesepus-trojan; their mother is abarbarea-trojan. Distinct from the horse Pedasus and from Pedasus the Carian, Messenian, or Lelegian towns.

AT A GLANCE

Greek namePēdasos (Πήδασος)
Typehero
Domainsson of Bucolion · Euryalus' target
ParentageBucolion · Abarbarea
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