Pandarus
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Pandarus or Pandar, son of Lycaon, is a skilled Lycian archer who lived in the Troad city of Zeleia. In the Iliad, he is allied with Troy and appears in stories about the Trojan War. He is infamous fo
Pandarus, centre, with Cressida, illustration to Troilus and Cressida by Thomas Kirk.
Pandarus and Bitias Fight the Rutuli Before the Trojan Camp (Aeneid, Book IX)
Iliad
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The Iliad is one of two major surviving ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern readers. Like the Odyssey, the poem
Pandarus
…appears in stories about the Trojan War. He is infamous for breaking the truce between the Trojans and the Achaeans in Homer's Iliad, Book 4. In Homer's Iliad, Book 4, he is portrayed as a skilled archer, but in medieval literature he becomes a witty and licentious figure who facilitates the affair between…
Inscription containing lines 468–473 of Book I, dated to AD 400–500, from Egypt, on display at the British Museum
Iliad, Book VIII, lines 245–253, Greek manuscript, late 5th, early 6th centuries AD
Thetis at Hephaestus's forge waiting to receive Achilles's new weapons, fresco from Pompeii, 1st century
A detail of fresco from the François Tomb at Vulci, showing the sacrifice of Trojan slaves. From left to right: Agamemnon, ghost of Patroclus, Vanth, Achilles beheading a slave, Charun, Ajax the Great, a slave, Ajax the Lesser. 350–330 BC