Messapus join with whom in a battle against Aeneas and the Trojans which was described in the Greek Epic Cycle, in particular in the "Iliad"?
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Messapus Messapus, a character in Virgil's "Aeneid", appears in Books VII and IX of the Latin epic poem. He was a famous tamer of horses and king of Etruria, known for being one "whom no one can fell by fire or steel" (Mandelbaum, VII.911-912); perhaps because he is a son of Neptune. Although accustomed to peace, in Book VII Messapus joins forces with Turnus in his battle against Aeneas and the Trojans. In Book IX, which recounts the nighttime raid by Nisus and Euryalus on the Rutulian camp, the battle helmet of Messapus is taken by Euryalus. Light reflected off the stolen helmet, betraying Euryalus to his enemies and leading not only to his own death, but also that of Nisus.
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Troy Troy (Ancient Greek: Τροία , "Troia" and Ἴλιον , "Ilion", or Ἴλιος , "Ilios"; Latin: "Trōia" and "Īlium" ; Hittite: "Wilusha" or "Truwisha"; Turkish: "Truva or Troya" ) was a city situated in the far northwest of the region known in late Classical antiquity as Asia Minor, now known as Anatolia in modern Turkey, near (just south of) the southwest mouth of the Dardanelles strait and northwest of Mount Ida. The present-day location is known as Hisarlik. It was the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle, in particular in the "Iliad", one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Metrical evidence from the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" suggests that the name Ἴλιον ("Ilion") formerly began with a digamma: Ϝίλιον ("Wilion"); this is also supported by the Hittite name for what is thought to be the same city, Wilusa.
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Apollonius of Rhodes Apollonius of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος "Apollṓnios Rhódios"; Latin: "Apollonius Rhodius" ; fl. first half of 3rd century BCE), was an ancient Greek author, best known for the "Argonautica", an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. The poem is one of the few extant examples of the epic genre and it was both innovative and influential, providing Ptolemaic Egypt with a "cultural mnemonic" or national "archive of images", and offering the Latin poets Virgil and Gaius Valerius Flaccus a model for their own epics. His other poems, which survive only in small fragments, concerned the beginnings or foundations of cities, such as Alexandria and Cnidusplaces of interest to the Ptolemies, whom he served as a scholar and librarian at the Library of Alexandria. A literary dispute with Callimachus, another Alexandrian librarian/poet, is a topic much discussed by modern scholars since it is thought to give some insight into their poetry, although there is very little evidence that there ever was such a dispute between the two men. In fact almost nothing at all is known about Apollonius and even his connection with Rhodes is a matter for speculation. Once considered a mere imitator of Homer, and therefore a failure as a poet, his reputation has been enhanced by recent studies, with an emphasis on the special characteristics of Hellenistic poets as scholarly heirs of a long literary tradition writing at a unique time in history.
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Metiochus and Parthenope Metiochus and Parthenope (Greek: Μητίοχος καὶ Παρθενόπη , "Mētiokhos kai Parthenopē") is an Ancient Greek novel that, in a translation by the eleventh-century poet ‘Unṣurī, also became the Persian romance epic "Vāmiq u ‘Adhrā", and the basis for a wide range of stories about the 'lover and the virgin' in medieval and modern Islamicate cultures.
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The Seege of Troye The Seege of Troye, (some manuscripts - The Batayle of Troye), is a Middle English poem, the earliest in English of numerous medieval retellings of the Trojan War in art and literature. Somewhat crudely it thoroughly blends its two main sources, Dares Phrygius and Benoît de Sainte-Maure's "Roman de Troie", and draws upon the Rawlinson Excidium Troie for episodes of the youth of Paris. The poem survives in four manuscripts, among the Harleian manuscripts (Harley 525), at Lincoln's Inn (Ms 150), Egerton Ms 2862 and Arundel (Arundel xxii)
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Polyphemus Polyphemus ( ; Greek: Πολύφημος "Polyphēmos") is the giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's "Odyssey". His name means "abounding in songs and legends". Polyphemus first appears as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the "Odyssey". Some later Classical writers link his name with the nymph Galatea and present him in a different light.
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Nausicaa Nausicaa ( ; Greek: Ναυσικάα or Ναυσικᾶ , ] ; also "Nausicaä, Nausikaa") is a character in Homer's "Odyssey". She is the daughter of King Alcinous (Αλκίνοος, "Alkínoös") and Queen Arete of Phaeacia. Her name, in Greek, means "burner of ships" (ναῦς: ship; κάω: to burn).
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Herakles (Euripides) Herakles (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς μαινόμενος , "Hēraklēs Mainomenos", also known as "Hercules Furens ") is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides that was first performed c. 416 BCE. While Herakles is in the underworld obtaining Cerberus for one of his labours, his father Amphitryon, wife Megara, and children are sentenced to death in Thebes by Lycus. Herakles arrives in time to save them, though the goddesses Iris and Madness (personified) cause him to kill his wife and children in a frenzy. It is the second of two surviving tragedies by Euripides where the family of Herakles are suppliants (the first being "Herakles' Children"). It was first performed at the City Dionysia festival.
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Chryseis In Greek mythology, Chryseis ( , Ancient Greek: Χρυσηΐς, "Khrysēís" , ] ) was a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the "Iliad", means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome (Ἀστυνόμη ).
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Phocais The Phocais (Greek: Φωκαΐς ) was an ancient Greek epic attributed to Homer. In the "Life of Homer", a biography of Homer falsely attributed to Herodotus, it was said to have been written while Homer lived at Phocaea with a man named Thestorides; however, whether Thestorides actually existed and where he lived is highly suspect. Like all Homeric works, its true author is unknown; today only a single fragment (three to four sentences of text) claiming its existence survives.
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Catalogue of Ships The Catalogue of Ships (Ancient Greek: νεῶν κατάλογος , "neōn katalogos") is an epic catalogue in Book 2 of Homer's "Iliad" (2.494-759), which lists the contingents of the Achaean army that sailed to Troy. The catalogue gives the names of the leaders of each contingent, lists the settlements in the kingdom represented by the contingent, sometimes with a descriptive epithet that fills out a half-verse or articulates the flow of names and parentage and place, and gives the number of ships required to transport the men to Troy, offering further differentiations of weightiness. A similar, though shorter, Catalogue of the Trojans and their allies follows (2.816–877). A similar catalogue appears in the Pseudo-Apollodoran "Bibliotheca".
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Trojan Battle Order The Trojan Battle Order or Trojan Catalogue is an epic catalogue in the second book of the "Iliad" listing the allied contingents that fought for Troy in the Trojan War. The catalogue is noted for its deficit of detail compared to the immediately preceding Catalogue of Ships, which lists the Greek contingents, and for the fact that only a few of the many Trojans mentioned in the Iliad appear there.
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Tithonus In Greek mythology, Tithonus ( or ; Ancient Greek: Τιθωνός,  "Tithonos" ) was the lover of Eos, Goddess of the Dawn. Tithonus was a prince of Troy, the son of King Laomedon by the Naiad Strymo (Στρυμώ). The mythology reflected by the fifth-century vase-painters of Athens envisaged Tithonus as a "rhapsode", as attested by the lyre in his hand, on an oinochoe (wine jug) of the Achilles Painter, "circa" 470–460 BC. Competitive singing, as in the "Contest of Homer and Hesiod", is also depicted vividly in the "Homeric Hymn to Apollo", and mentioned in the two "Hymns to Aphrodite".
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Thersilochus In Greek mythology, Thersilochus (Greek: Θερσίλοχόν), was a son of Antenor and probably of Theano.Thersilochus was slain by Achilles. Later Aeneas met him in the Underworld (Hom."Il".17.216, 21.209; Vir."Aen".6.483).
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Turnus In Virgil's "Aeneid", Turnus was the King of the Rutuli, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas.
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Merope (Messenia) Merope (Ancient Greek: Μερόπη ) was a Queen of Messenia in Greek mythology, daughter of King Cypselus of Arcadia and wife of Cresphontes, the Heraclid king of Messenia. After the murder of her husband and her two older children by Polyphontes (another Heraclid), Merope was forced to marry the murderer, but she managed to save her youngest son Aepytus, whom she sent secretly to Aetolia. Several years later, when Aepytus grew up, he killed Polyphontes with the collaboration of Merope, and he took revenge for the murder of his relatives and the insult to his mother.
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Ajax (mythology) Ajax or Aias ( or ; Ancient Greek: Αἴας ] , gen. Αἴαντος "Aiantos") is a mythological Greek hero, the son of King Telamon and Periboea, and the half-brother of Teucer. He plays an important role, and is portrayed as a towering figure and a warrior of great courage in Homer's "Iliad" and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War. He is also referred to as "Telamonian Ajax", "Greater Ajax", or "Ajax the Great", which distinguishes him from Ajax, son of Oileus (Ajax the Lesser). In Etruscan mythology, he is known as Aivas Tlamunus.
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Attic War In Greek mythology, the Attic War is the conflict between the Amazons and the Athenians, led by Theseus or Heracles. The Amazons fought to free Antiope or her sister Hippolyta from captivity. Per some Greek myths, Heracles abducted Hippolyta during his ninth labor and later gave her to Theseus. Per other myths, Hippolyta was killed during the ninth labor and Theseus, who had joined Hercules during his expedition, abducted Hippolyta's sister Antiope. In all the myths, the Amazons then went to war against the Athenians and were defeated.
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Oedipodea The Oedipodea (Ancient Greek: Οἰδιπόδεια ) is a lost poem of the Theban cycle, a part of the Epic Cycle (Επικὸς Κύκλος ). The poem was about 6,600 verses long and the authorship was credited by ancient authorities to Cinaethon (Κιναίθων ), a barely known poet who lived probably in Sparta. Only three short fragments and one testimonium survived.
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Peleus In Greek mythology, Peleus ( ; Greek: Πηλεύς , "Pēleus") was a hero whose myth was already known to the hearers of Homer in the late 8th century BC. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Endeïs, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly. He married the sea-nymph Thetis with whom he fathered Achilles.
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Aethalides Aethalides (Ancient Greek: Αἰθαλίδης ) was a son of Hermes and Eupolemeia, a daughter of Myrmidon. He was the herald of the Argonauts, and had received from his father the faculty of remembering everything, even in Hades. He was further allowed to reside alternately in the upper and in the lower world. As his soul could not forget anything even after death, it remembered that from the body of Aethalides it had successively migrated into those of Euphorbus, Hermotimus, Pyrrhus, and at last into that of Pythagoras, in whom it still retained the recollection of its former migrations.
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Thestorides of Phocaea Thestorides of Phocaea (Greek: Θεστορίδης ) was a legendary or semi-legendary early Greek poet, one of those to whom the epic "Little Iliad" was ascribed.