Ilioneus
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Iliad
Only son of the wealthy Phorbas, favored by Hermes, killed by Peneleos who displays his severed head.
Ilioneus was his only son, and Peneleos now wounded him in the eye under his eyebrows, tearing the eye-ball from its socket:
The Rights of War and Peace
Trojan character in Virgil's Aeneid who protests the expulsion of shipwrecked companions from the African shore.
Thus Ilioneus in Virgil calls heaven to witness the injustice of the Africans in driving him and his shipwrecked companions from the hospitable use of the shore, and we are informed by Plutarch in his life of Pericles that all the Grecians approved of the complaint, which the Megarensians made against the Athenians, who had prohibited them from setting foot upon the soil of their territories, or c …