Pylaemenes (Ancient Greek: Πυλαιμένης) was king of the Eneti of Paphlagonia and a Trojan ally in the Iliad. He leads the Paphlagonian forces from Cytorus, Sesamon, Cromna, Aegialus, and the river Parthenius, and is killed by Menelaus; his son Harpalion later falls to Meriones.
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I.Identity and family
Homer gives no parentage for the Paphlagonian king. Later mythographers name his father as Bilsates or Melius. Tradition also linked him to Priam through Phineus: Olizone, daughter of that Paphlagonian Phineus, was said to have married Dardanus, tying the Eneti house to the Trojan stem.
His son Harpalion fights beside him and is slain by the Cretan Meriones, son of Molus, in the fighting of Iliad Book 13.
II.At Troy
In the Catalogue of Ships Pylaemenes marshals 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 Parthenius. Apollodorus lists him among the allies who joined Troy after nine years of siege.
In Book 5 Menelaus, spear-famed son of Atreus, fixes his spear in Pylaemenes upon the collar-bone as the Paphlagonian stands in the press; Antilochus then casts at Mydon, the king's squire. Homer styles him peer of Ares and leader of great-souled Paphlagonian shieldmen.
III.Homonyms
This atlas entry (pylaemenes-paphlagon) is the Iliadic Paphlagonian king. A separate Pylaemenes appears among the Suitors of Penelope from Dulichium (pylaemenes-dulichium) and is killed with the other wooers — a catalogue namesake, not the Trojan ally.