Protesilaus
mythological figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Protesilaus son of Iphiclus
in the texts
Orations
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.
Iphigenia in Aulis
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;
The Histories
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:
it is to me that Protesilaus of Elaeus is trying to signify that although he is dead and dry, he has power given him by the god to take vengeance on me, the one who wronged him.
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.
Chrestomathy
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.