Polybos
mythological figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Polybos son of Polyktor
in the texts
Odyssey
Father of the suitor Eurymakhos, mentioned only by patronymic.
Eurymakhos son of Polybos then said, "Go home, old man, and prophesy to your own children, or it may be worse for them.
So they took a red ball which Polybos had made for them, and one of them bent himself backwards and threw it up towards the clouds, while the other jumped from off the ground and caught it with ease before it came down again.
Odysseus hit Eurydamas, Telemakhos Amphimedon, and Eumaios Polybos.
Iliad
One of the three sons of Antenor gathered with the Trojan host.
The Trojans, on the other side upon the rising slope of the plain, were gathered round great Hektor, noble Polydamas, Aeneas who was honored in the district [ dêmos] of the Trojans like an immortal, and the three sons of Antenor - Polybos, Agenor, and young Akamas, beauteous as a god.