Adrastos
mythological figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
in the texts
Iliad
Son of Merops of Perkote, co-leader of the contingent from Adrasteia and nearby districts, doomed by fate despite his father's warning.
They that held Adrasteia and the district [ dêmos] of Apaesus, with Pityeia, and the high mountain of Tereia - these were led by Adrastos and Amphios, whose breastplate was of linen.
Then shall his brave wife Aigialeia, daughter of Adrastos, rouse her whole house from sleep, wailing for the loss of her wedded lord, Diomedes the bravest of the Achaeans.
Menelaos came up to him spear in hand, but Adrastos caught him by the knees begging for his life.
Iphigenia in Aulis
Named as co-commander, alongside Agamemnon, of the hundred ships sent from Mycenae.
And from Mycenae, the Cyclopes’ town, Atreus’ son sent a hundred well-manned galleys, and Adrastos his brother was with him in command, as friend with friend, that Hellas might exact vengeance on the one who had fled her home to wed a foreigner.