Phereclus
In Greek mythology, Phereclus or Phereclos, son of Tecton, was the shipbuilder who constructed the boat that Paris used to kidnap Helen.
Phereclus
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In Greek mythology, Phereclus or Phereclos, son of Tecton, was the shipbuilder who constructed the boat that Paris used to kidnap Helen.
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Meriones targeted Phereclos and killed him by ramming a spear into his right buttock. Phereclus was a target because he built Paris' ships, and he could make other contraptions of war. In the Iliad, Homer vividly illustrates Phereclus' death in book five:
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- 1.Dictionnaire grec-français (Bailly), édition de 1935 , 2060.
- 2.Dictionnaire grec-français (Bailly), édition de 1935 , 1099.
- 3.Paul Wathelet. Dictionnaire des Troyens de l'Iliade. Université de Liège-Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres. 1988.
- 4.Paul Wathelet. Dictionnaire des Troyens de l'Iliade. Université de Liège-Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres. 1988.
- 5.Paul Wathelet. Dictionnaire des Troyens de l'Iliade. Université de Liège-Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres. 1988.
- 6.Stallbaum, Gottfried. Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem. Weigel. 9 (lignes 39-46 du folio). 1827.
- 7.Tout juste évoqué parce qu'il est tué par Néoptolème, on trouve un personnage troyen qui porte ce nom, mais on ne peut faire l'association avec Phéréclos : , X, 96 ; Version avec vers.
- 8.Wilhelm Dindorf. Scholia Græca in Homeri Odysseam. e typographeo academico. 610 (215). 1855.
- 9.Gulielmus Dindorfius. Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem. A. Macmillan et Socios. 200 (261). 1875.
- 10.Dictionnaire grec-français (Bailly), édition de 1935 , 1908.
- 11.Lidell, Scott, A Greek-English lexicon, 1901, American Book Company , 221.
- 12.Dictionnaire grec-français (Bailly), édition de 1935 , 957.
- 13.Christian Gottfried Müller. Ισαακιου και Ιωαννου του τζετζου Σχολια εις Λυκοφρονα. Sumtibus F.C.G. Vogelii. 379-380 (463-464). 1811.
- 14.Otto Schneider. Theriaca et Alexipharmaca. Teubner. 23 (22). 1856.
- 15.Karl Müller. Fragmenta historicorum graecorum (FHG). Parisiis Editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot. 64. 1841.
- 16., XVI, 21-22.
- 17., III, 2.
- 18., 196-199.
- 19.Lycophron, Alexandra, , 96-97.
- 20., 59-61.
- 21.Christian Gottfried Müller. Ισαακιου και Ιωαννου του τζετζου Σχολια εις Λυκοφρονα. Sumtibus F.C.G. Vogelii. 316-317 (402-403). 1811.
- 22.Christian Gottfried Müller. Ισαακιου και Ιωαννου του τζετζου Σχολια εις Λυκοφρονα. Sumtibus F.C.G. Vogelii. 943-944 (997-998). 1811.
- 23.Gulielmus Dindorfius. Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem. A. Macmillan et Socios. 226 (235). 1875.
- 24.Lycophron, Alexandra, , 1170.
- 25.Par exemple , III, 2-6.
- 26.Chants cypriens, fragment selon un commentaire de Proclos, fragment #1.
- 27., 631-637.
- 28.Dracontius, Poèmes profanes, VIII, « Enlèvement d'Hélène », latin espagnol 246-584.
- 29., V-VIII.
- 30., V, 59-68.
- 31.Jean Tzétzès et Friedrich Jacobs. Ioannis Tzetzae Antehomerica, Homerica et posthomerica. Libraria Weidmannia. 55. 1793.
- 32.Ernestus Maass/Gulielmus Dindorfius. Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem : ex codicibus aucta et emendata. Oxonii : E Typographeo Clarendoniano. 162 (201). 1875/1888.
- 33.Gulielmus Dindorfius. Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem. A. Macmillan et Socios. 201 (262). 1875.
- 34., XIII, 651-652.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Homère. Iliade. Éditions Gallimard. 1993. 2-07-010261-0.
- Triphiodore. La prise d'Ilion. Les Belles Lettres. 978-2-251-00362-7.
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