Troilus
mythological figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Troilus the dauntless charioteer
in the texts
Orations
Young Trojan prince, son of Priam, killed by Achilles.
and so Troilus dies, being still a boy, and Mestor and several others.
for Troilus would never have exercised outside the wall, and that far from the city, nor would they have farmed the Chersonese, as all agree, if they were masters of the Troad, nor would wine have been brought to them from Lemnos.
Or the might of Achilles, who was not then surely about to fight for the first time, but had many times in many previous years come to blows, and neither killed Hector nor wrought any other great thing, save that he took Troilus while still a boy in age?
Tusculan Disputations
Son of Priam, referenced in Callimachus's comparison of grief.
(Although Callimachus says, not amiss, that Priam wept far oftener than Troilus.
Iliad
A son of Priam, described as a dauntless charioteer, named by his father among the bravest sons lost in the war.
Miserable man that I am, I have had the bravest sons in all Troy - noble Nestor, Troilus the dauntless charioteer, and Hektor who was a god among men, so that one would have thought he was son to an immortal - yet there is not one of them left.
Chrestomathy
Trojan figure killed by Achilles.
After that he drives off the cattle of Aeneas, and he sacks Lyrnessus and Pedasus and many of the surrounding cities, and he kills Troilus.