therapôn
idea · 1 work · 3 mentions · 12 anchored passages
squire · esquire · ritual substitute · therapontes
in the texts
Iliad
The Greek social role of a squire or attendant, explicitly glossed as 'therapôn' across four separate occurrences in the passage.
When Nestor and Machaon had reached the tents of the son of Neleus, they dismounted, and an esquire [ therapôn], Eurymedon, took the horses from the chariot.
With these words he struck Thymbraios from his chariot to the ground, smiting him in the left breast with his spear, while Odysseus killed Molion who was his squire [ therapôn].
Menelaos took Odysseus by the hand, and led him out of the press while his squire [ therapôn] brought up his chariot, but Ajax rushed furiously on the Trojans and killed Doryklos, a bastard son of Priam;