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Polyidus

prophet and father of Euchenor

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Canonical name
Polyidus
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prophet and father of Euchenor
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Individual
Editorial note
The prophet who fathers Euchenor, distinct from the inherited casualty of the same name.

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Polyidus the prophet

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Claims

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·Reported

The aged prophet Polyidus repeatedly foretells that Euchenor must die of disease at home or by Trojan hands.

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“his good old father Polyidus had often told him that he must either stay at home and die of a terrible disease, or go with the Achaeans and perish at the hands of the Trojans”

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“Euchenor, son of Polyidus the prophet”

Passage preview

Book 13 · Passage 45

Paris was deeply grieved by the death of Harpalion, who was his host when he went among the Paphlagonians; he aimed an arrow, therefore, in order to avenge him. Now there was a certain man named Euchenor, son of Polyidus the prophet, a brave man and wealthy, whose home was in Corinth. This Euchenor had set sail for Troy well knowing that it would be the death of him, for his good old father Polyidus had often told him that he must either stay at home and die of a terrible disease, or go with the Achaeans and perish at the hands of the Trojans; he chose, therefore, to avoid incurring the heavy fine the Achaeans would have laid upon him, and at the same time to escape the pain and suffering of disease. Paris now smote him on the jaw under his ear, whereon the life went out of him and he was enshrouded in the darkness of death.