Before setting off for Asia, Alexander the Great visited a tomb devoted to this figure at Elaeus, and in some stories his wife reconstructed a bronze statue of him but later jumped into the fire after her father tried to have it destroyed. This son of Iphicles led a regiment of Phylaceans in the Trojan War and killed four men before being killed by Hector. This man was allowed to return from the underworld for three hours to see his grieving wife Laodamia, who subsequently stabbed herself. For 1
Before setting off for Asia, Alexander the Great visited a tomb devoted to this figure at Elaeus, and in some stories his wife reconstructed a bronze statue of him but later jumped into the fire after her father tried to have it destroyed. This son of Iphicles led a regiment of Phylaceans in the Trojan War and killed four men before being killed by Hector. This man was allowed to return from the underworld for three hours to see his grieving wife Laodamia, who subsequently stabbed herself. For 10 points, identify this cult figure, the (*) first man to step on the shore at Troy and thus was fated to be the first to die.
Before setting off for Asia, Alexander the Great visited a tomb devoted to this figure at Elaeus, and in some stories his wife reconstructed a bronze statue of him but later jumped into the fire after her father tried to have it destroyed.
Protesilaus