Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Polypoetes.
In play
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Iliad
Homer
Homer makes Polypoetes son of Peirithous leader of the Lapith contingent — forty ships from Argissa and the Thessalian towns, a fighter at the ships and in the games for Patroclus.
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Polypoetes
Son of Peirithous and Hippodamia — Lapith captain at Troy, carefully distinct from other namesakes including a son of Apollo.
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Pirithous
Polypoetes' father — the Lapith king of the Centauromachy whose son inherits the Thessalian command at Troy.
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Catalogue of Ships
Polypoetes and Leonteus together marshal the Lapith forty ships — the Centauromachy's heirs in the Achaean muster.