Thrasymedes (Ancient Greek Θρασυμήδης, "bold of thought") was a prince of Pylos, son of Nestor, and an Achaean warrior in the Trojan War. Homer makes him a lead sentry who lends armour to Diomedes for the night raid; he later sits with his father when Telemachus visits sandy Pylos. Later epic places him in the Wooden Horse and among those who contest Antilochus' body with Memnon.
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I.Family
Thrasymedes is a son of Nestor by Eurydice or, in Homer's Odyssey, Anaxibia. His brothers include Antilochus and Peisistratus; other Neleid siblings named in the tradition are Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron, Perseus of Pylos, Pisidice, and Polycaste.
II.Iliad and Odyssey
In the Iliad he captains Achaean sentinels and is present when the Greek wall is built. When Diomedes and Odysseus set out on the Doloneia, Thrasymedes gives Diomedes his armour and sword. He fights through the war as one of the more visible younger leaders, though Antilochus outshines him; after Memnon kills Antilochus, Thrasymedes helps Nestor contest the body before Achilles intervenes.
Later tradition has him enter the Trojan Horse. He survives and returns to Pylos. In Odyssey 3 Telemachus finds him at the Poseidon feast on the shore with Nestor and Peisistratus. A vaulted tomb overlooking Voidokilia beach has been called the Tomb of Thrasymedes since antiquity.
III.Homonyms
This node (thrasymedes-nestor) is Nestor's son. He is not the Dulichian suitor of Penelope (thrasymedes-dulichium), nor the historical sculptor Thrasymedes of Paros.