Astyalus

Mortal man

A character named in Homer's Iliad. The English introduction is not yet available.

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A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

“he while shepherding his flocks lay with the nymph in love, and she conceived and bare twin sons. Of these did the son of Mecisteus loose the might and the glorious limbs and strip the armour from their shoulders. And Polypoetes staunch in fight slew Astyalus,”
Il. 6.25–29

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Описание прямо называет Астиала убитым Полипетом; стих 6.29 говорит, что Полипет распростёр Астиала на земле.

he while shepherding his flocks lay with the nymph in love, and she conceived and bare twin sons. Of these did the son of Mecisteus loose the might and the glorious limbs and strip the armour from their shoulders. And Polypoetes staunch in fight slew Astyalus,
Il. 6.29

Il. 6.29

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Wikidata Q12874168

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