Protesilaus · Atlas

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Protesilas“Protesilaus”1 mention

Isthmean (Greek)

Protesilas, I add besides your sacred ground in Phylace, the home of Achaean men.

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OrationsImperial · Greek

The first Greek to die attempting to force a landing on Trojan soil, later buried at the Chersonese.

When, then, the Achaeans came, at first they were kept from the land, and Protesilaus dies forcing a landing, and many of the rest, so that they crossed over to the Chersonese, taking up the dead under truce, and there they buried Protesilaus.

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Iphigenia in AulisClassical · Greek

Greek captain seen by the chorus playing checkers on the shore at Aulis.

and I saw Protesilaus and Palamedes, sprung from the son of Poseidon, sitting there amusing themselves with intricate figures at checkers;

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The HistoriesClassical · Greek

A Greek hero with a tomb and treasury at Elaeus in the Chersonese, whose desecrated shrine prompts his posthumous vengeance on Artayctes.

there is at Elaeus in the Chersonesus the tomb of Protesilaus, and a precinct around it, which contained much treasure:

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Now therefore I offer a ransom, the sum of one hundred talents to the god for the treasure that I took from his temple.

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witness the deceit that he practised on the king in his march to Athens, how he stole away from Elaeus the treasure of Protesilaus son of Iphiclus.

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IsthmeanClassical · Greek

Mythic hero of Phylace, first Greek to die at Troy, whose sacred precinct is invoked by the poet.

Protesilas, I add besides your sacred ground in Phylace, the home of Achaean men.

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ChrestomathyLate Antiquity · Greek

Greek hero killed by Hector during the landing at Troy.

Then, as they disembark at Ilium, the Trojans hold them off, and Protesilaus is killed by Hector.

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