Idaios
mythological figure · 1 work · 4 mentions · 12 anchored passages
his herald · wise Idaios
in the texts
Iliad
Trojan herald who brings the oath vessels and summons Priam to the plain to swear the covenant.
and Idaios brought the mixing bowl and the cups of gold.
whereon Hephaistos saved him by wrapping him in a cloud of darkness, that his old father might not be utterly overwhelmed with grief;
Idaios did not dare to bestride his brother's body, but sprang from the chariot and took to flight, or he would have shared his brother's fate;