Thymoetes (Ancient Greek Θυμοίτης; also Thymoetus) was a Trojan elder and counsellor who sat with Priam at the Scaean gates when Helen came to the wall in Homer's Iliad. Later tradition makes him a son of Laomedon; a prophecy that a boy born on a certain day would ruin Troy leads Priam to spare Paris and kill Thymoetes' wife Cilla and their infant Munippus — a grievance sometimes said to explain Thymoetes' advice to admit the Wooden Horse.
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I.Homeric elder
In Iliad 3 Thymoetes is named among the Trojan demogerontes — old men of the council — who sit with Priam above the Scaean gates and remark on Helen's beauty. Homer gives him no combat aristeia; his role is civic counsel at Troy.
II.Prophecy and the Horse
Post-Homeric myth (Dictys, Tzetzes, and related notes) casts him as Laomedon's son and a soothsayer's target: on the day Paris is born to Priam and Hecuba, Cilla bears Munippus to Thymoetes. Priam, fearing the prophecy that a child born that day will destroy Troy, orders Munippus and Cilla killed while sparing Paris.
Some readers infer that Thymoetes later urges bringing the Wooden Horse inside the walls in revenge. Whether or not that motive is original, it colours the elder as a figure of Troy's internal doom.
III.Homonyms
This node (thymoetes-trojan) is the Iliadic Trojan counsellor. He is not the Athenian king Thymoetes, last Theseid before Melanthus; nor Virgil's companion of Aeneas slain by Turnus; nor Dimoetes under another spelling.