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Harpalion

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Canonical name
Harpalion
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Character
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Individual
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Aliases

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son of King Pylaemenes

Descriptive reference · Direct

Location presence

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Troy1 observation
·Direct

Harpalion had come to Troy to fight.

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Harpalion son of King Pylaemenes then sprang upon him; he had come to fight at Troy along with his father

Claims

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·Direct

Harpalion attacks, retreats warily, then is shot through buttock, bone, and bladder and dies bleeding in comrades’ arms.

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Harpalion son of King Pylaemenes then sprang upon him; he had come to fight at Troy along with his father, but he did not go home again. He struck the middle of Menelaus’s shield with his spear but could not pierce it, and to save his life drew back under cover of his men, looking round him on every side lest he should be wounded. But Meriones aimed a bronze-tipped arrow at him as he was leaving the field, and hit him on the right buttock; the arrow pierced the bone through and through, and penetrated the bladder, so he sat down where he was and breathed his last in the arms of his comrades, stretched like a worm upon the ground and watering the earth with the blood that flowed from his wound.
·Direct

Harpalion had hosted Paris among the Paphlagonians.

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Harpalion, who was his host when he went among the Paphlagonians

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Harpalion son of King Pylaemenes then sprang upon him

Passage preview

Book 13 · Passage 44

Harpalion son of King Pylaemenes then sprang upon him; he had come to fight at Troy along with his father, but he did not go home again. He struck the middle of Menelaus’s shield with his spear but could not pierce it, and to save his life drew back under cover of his men, looking round him on every side lest he should be wounded. But Meriones aimed a bronze-tipped arrow at him as he was leaving the field, and hit him on the right buttock; the arrow pierced the bone through and through, and penetrated the bladder, so he sat down where he was and breathed his last in the arms of his comrades, stretched like a worm upon the ground and watering the earth with the blood that flowed from his wound. The brave Paphlagonians tended him with all due care; they raised him into his chariot, and bore him sadly off to the city of Troy; his father went also with him weeping bitterly, but there was no ransom that could bring his dead son to life again.