Dolon
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Dolon the Wolf · son of Eumedes
in the texts
Rhesus
A lean, ambitious Trojan volunteer spy who disguises himself as a wolf to scout the Greek camp and is killed by Odysseus and Diomede before he can return.
DIOMEDE takes DOLON’S wolf-mask off his belt and hangs it in HECTOR’S tent, then turns.
Dolon, their spy, and bear his tokens still?
DOLON:
Orations
Trojan spy killed by Diomedes and Odysseus in the Iliad
For that poet, whenever he relates of Dolon — how he desired the horses of Achilles, and how, able to escape the enemy, he stood still when the spear was fixed near him and his swiftness profited him nothing, and how he chattered with fear and clashed his teeth together, and how he told the enemy not only whatever they asked, but also things about which no one inquired (for he disclosed the Thraci …
Iliad
Trojan herald's son who volunteers to spy on the Achaean camp for the promised horses of Achilles.
but there was among the Trojans a certain man named Dolon, son of Eumedes, the famous herald - a man rich in gold and bronze.
On this Dolon would have caught him by the beard to beseech him further, but Diomedes struck him in the middle of his neck with his sword and cut through both sinews so that his head fell rolling in the dust while he was yet speaking.
The others gave chase at once, and as a couple of well-trained hounds press forward after a doe or hare that runs screaming in front of them, even so did the son of Tydeus and Odysseus pursue Dolon and cut him off from his own people.