Machaon
mythological figure · 1 work · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
son of Asklepios · Machaon shepherd of his people · noble Machaon
in the texts
Iliad
Physician and son of Asklepios who is summoned to treat Menelaos's arrow wound.
He then said to Talthybios, "Talthybios, tell Machaon, son to the great physician, Asklepios, to come and see Menelaos immediately.
Machaon passed into the middle of the ring and at once drew the arrow from the belt, bending its barbs back through the force with which he pulled it out.
still the Achaeans would have given no ground, had not Alexander husband of lovely Helen stayed the prowess of Machaon shepherd of his people, by wounding him in the right shoulder with a triple-barbed arrow.