Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Medon

    mythological figure · 2 works · 8 mentions · 11 anchored passages

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    A herald or servant who overhears the suitors' plot and warns Penelope.

    It was not long ere Penelope came to know what the suitors were plotting;
    book 4
    "I do not know," answered Medon, "whether some god set him on to it, or whether he went on his own impulse to see if he could find out if his father was dead, or alive and on his way home [ nostos].
    book 4
    Then Penelope's heart sank within her, and for a long time she was speechless;
    book 4

    IliadClassical · Greek

    Exiled Achaean leader, half-brother of Ajax son of Oileus, commanding the Phthians.

    Of these, Medon was bastard son to Oileus and brother of Ajax, but he lived in Phylake away from his own country, for he had killed the brother of his stepmother Eriopis, the wife of Oileus;
    book 13
    Aeneas killed Medon and Iasos.
    book 15
    With a shout he strode in among the allies, and his armor flashed about him so that he seemed to all of them like the great son of Peleus himself.
    book 17