In Greek mythology, Podalirius or Podaleirius (Ancient Greek: Ποδαλείριος) was a son of Asclepius and brother of Machaon. With Machaon he led thirty ships from Tricca in Thessaly to Troy as a physician-prince of the Achaeans; he healed Philoctetes and was said to have entered the Wooden Horse. Unlike Machaon he survived the war and settled in Caria (or, in other traditions, left a hero-shrine in Daunia).
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I.At Troy
Homer's Catalogue of Ships pairs Podalirius and Machaon as leaders from Tricca, Ithome, and Oechalia — both skilled in healing. Later epic has Podalirius cure Philoctetes, whose bow was needed to take Troy, and Quintus of Smyrna places him among those who entered the Wooden Horse. After the sack he traveled with Amphilochus, Calchas, Leonteus, and Polypoetes toward Colophon, where Calchas died.
II.Aftermath and cult
One tradition sends him to Delphi, where the oracle bids him settle where the sky could not fall on him — so he chooses the mountain-girt Carian Chersonese. Other versions shipwreck him on the Carian coast; rescued by the shepherd Bybassus, he heals King Damaethus' daughter Syrna, marries her, and founds Syrnus and Bybassus.
Strabo knows a heroön of Podalirius on the Daunian hill Drium in Italy, with a stream that cured diseased animals; Lycophron's burial notice there is disputed by Tzetzes in favour of the Carian settlement stories.