According to Ovidâs Heroides, this hero received a letter instructing him to be the first to get off of the ship upon arriving at Troy.
Pindarâs first Isthmian Ode is used as evidence that this man had a cult at Phylace. According to a poem by Antiphilus of Byzantium, very tall elm trees that grew atop this figureâs tomb withered when their branches literally saw the site of this figureâs death. Some sources state that this manâs name was Iolaos, though Homer calls Iolaos his father. In one story, a servant peeked through the crack of a door and saw this figureâs wife, a daughter of Acastus and Astydameia, embracing a bronze sculpture of this man. After Odysseus threw his shield onto the ground and jumped on it, this man completed the action that sealed his fate. According to Ovidâs Heroides, this hero received a letter instructing him to be the first to get off of the ship upon arriving at Troy. After heeding that advice, this figure only killed a few men before being slain by Hector, after which this figureâs brother, Podarces, joined the war. For 10 points, name this husband of Laodamia, the first hero to die in the Trojan War.
Pindarâs first Isthmian Ode is used as evidence that this man had a cult at Phylace.
Protesilaus [accept Iolaos before âIolaosâ]