Prothoënor (Ancient Greek: Προθοήνωρ) was a Boeotian leader in the Trojan War, son of Areilycus (Archilycus) and, in Hyginus, of Theobule. Homer places him among the five captains of the fifty Boeotian ships; he is killed by Polydamas, who boasts over the fall.
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I.Family and command
In the Catalogue of Ships Prothoënor stands with Peneleos, Leitus, Arcesilaus, and Clonius as leaders of the Boeotians who followed Agamemnon with fifty ships from the towns of Boeotia. Homer makes him son of Areilycus; Hyginus adds Theobule as mother and makes Arcesilaus his brother.
An alternative genealogy in Diodorus makes him son of Alector and Arteis, and thus half-brother of Leitus and Clonius. Later notices associate him with Thespiae in Boeotia.
II.Death
In Iliad Book 14, when battle surges about the Achaean wall, Polydamas son of Panthous comes to Hector's aid and casts his spear upon Prothoënor's right shoulder; the bronze holds its way through, and he falls clutching the dust. Polydamas immediately boasts of the kill — one of the poem's sharp exchanges of triumph and reply over a fallen captain.