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Autolycus

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Canonical name
Autolycus
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None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
Named in the remembered provenance of Ulysses's helmet.

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Eleon1 observation
·Direct

Autolycus was physically in Eleon when he broke into Amyntor’s house and stole the helmet.

See evidence text
“This helmet had been stolen by Autolycus out of Eleon when he broke into the house of Amyntor son of Ormenus.”

Claims

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·Direct

Autolycus steals the helmet from Amyntor’s house in Eleon.

See evidence text
“This helmet had been stolen by Autolycus out of Eleon when he broke into the house of Amyntor son of Ormenus.”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Remembered
“This helmet had been stolen by Autolycus out of Eleon when he broke into the house of Amyntor son of Ormenus.”

Passage preview

Book 10 · Passage 22

They then put on their armour. Brave Thrasymedes provided the son of Tydeus with a sword and a shield (for he had left his own at his ship) and on his head he set a helmet of bull’s hide without either peak or crest; it is called a skullcap and is a common headgear. Meriones found a bow and quiver for Ulysses, and on his head he set a leathern helmet that was lined with a strong plaiting of leathern thongs, while on the outside it was thickly studded with boar’s teeth, well and skilfully set into it; next the head there was an inner lining of felt. This helmet had been stolen by Autolycus out of Eleon when he broke into the house of Amyntor son of Ormenus. He gave it to Amphidamas of Cythera to take to Scandea, and Amphidamas gave it as a guest-gift to Molus, who gave it to his son Meriones; and now it was set upon the head of Ulysses.