Galaxy/The codex of Pylaemenes

Pylaemenes of the shaggy heart led the Paphlagonians from the land of the Eneti, whence is the race of wild she-mules — men who held Cytorus and dwelt about Sesamon, Cromna, Aegialus, and the river Parthenius.1

I

In the Catalogue, Pylaemenes marshals the Paphlagonians from Eneti beside the Halizone captains and the Mysian lords. Apollodorus names him son of Bilsates among the allies who came to join the Trojans after nine years of siege.2

II

When battle raged in the fifth book, Menelaus, spear-famed son of Atreus, fixed his spear in Pylaemenes as he stood still and smote him upon the collar-bone, and Antilochus cast at Mydon his squire.3

the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story

BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Pylaemenes — art, artifacts and echoes.

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