Teucer
mythological figure · 6 works · 13 mentions · 34 anchored passages
King Teucer · Teucer son of Telamon · brave Teucer · famous bowman · founder of our race · slave · son of the barbarian mother · the bowman · the son of Telamon
in the texts
Iliad
Achaean archer who kills Aretaon in the general fighting.
Polypoites then killed Astyalos, Odysseus Pidytes of Perkote, and Teucer Aretaon.
Teucer had just taken an arrow from his quiver and had laid it upon the bow-string, but Hektor struck him with the jagged stone as he was taking aim and drawing the string to his shoulder;
Ninth came Teucer with his bow, and took his place under cover of the shield of Ajax son of Telamon.
Ajax
Ajax's brother, absent on a raid, later returned with urgent orders to keep Ajax inside.
Teucer declared that Ajax should not slip out of the house, until he himself arrives.
With those words the seer finished, and at once Teucer rose from his seat and sent me with these orders for you to follow.
You also, my comrades, honor my wishes just as she does, and command Teucer, when he comes, to take care of us, and to be kind to you at the same time.
Tusculan Disputations
Mythical hero to whom the saying 'one's country is wherever it is well' is attributed
And so to every reasoning the saying of Teucer can be fitted:
Helen
Son of Telamon, half-brother of Aias, exiled Achaean archer who lands in Egypt seeking Theonoe's prophecy before founding a new Salamis in Cyprus.
My name is Teucer, my father is Telamon, and Salamis is the land that nurtured me.
Teucer:
Teucer:
Evagoras
Heroic son of Telamon who founded Salamis in Cyprus and left the ruling family.
And Ajax was second to him in valor, and Teucer, who proved himself worthy of their kinship and inferior to none of the other heroes, after he had helped in the capture of Troy, went to Cyprus and founded Salamis, giving to it the name of his former native land;
After the city had been founded in this manner, the rule at first was held by Teucer’s descendants:
Nicocles or the Cyprians
The founder of the speaker's race, credited with bringing ancestors overseas, founding the city, and distributing land.
For who does not know how Teucer, the founder of our race, taking with him the ancestors of the rest of our people, came hither over seas and built for them a city and portioned out the land;