Polypoetes (Ancient Greek: Πολυποίτης), son of the Lapith king Peirithous and Hippodameia, was a Greek captain in the Trojan War. Homer places him with Leonteus at the head of forty ships from Argissa, Gyrtone, and the Thessalian towns of the Lapiths. He was among Helen's suitors, entered the Wooden Horse, and won the iron prize in the funeral games for Patroclus. Distinct from the Aetolian son of Apollo, the Dulichian suitor of Penelope, and Odysseus' Thesprotian son of the same name.
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I.Birth and command
Hippodameia conceived Polypoetes on the day Peirithous drove the centaurs from Pelion. In the Catalogue of Ships he and Leonteus lead the Lapith contingent from Thessaly. As a former suitor of Helen he was bound by the oath to sail against Troy.
II.At Troy
Polypoetes fights among the Achaeans and, after Patroclus' death, wins an early form of the discus or quoits contest — a five-year supply of iron. Later tradition puts him in the Wooden Horse and at the funerals of Patroclus and Calchas. His standing companion is Leonteus.