Phaedimus

🗡 heroΦαίδιμος

Trojan War, Minor Warriors

Son of Priam who fought at Troy and died defending the city in its final hours.‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‍‍‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‌‌‌‍‍‍‍‍‌

The Legend of Phaedimus

Phaedimus was one of the many sons of Priam and Hecuba who fought in the Trojan War.‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‍‍‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‌‌‌‍‍‍‍‍‌ He is named in the lists of Priam's sons preserved by later mythographers, though he receives no individual aristeia or notable scene in the Iliad. He was among the princes who died when Troy fell, either in the fighting of the final night or in the general massacre that followed the Greeks' entry through the Wooden Horse. The fifty sons of Priam — the vast majority of whom died before the city fell — form a kind of collective background tragedy in the Troy cycle: an enormous royal generation wiped out in a single war, leaving only scattered survivors like Helenus and Agenor. Phaedimus represents this anonymous heroic rank-and-file of the Trojan royal house, the dozens of princes who died with less ceremony than their more celebrated brothers.

Parents

Priam (father); Hecuba (mother)

Symbols

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Fun Fact

Priam was said to have had fifty sons — the Iliad itself alludes to this — making the Trojan royal family the largest dynasty in Greek epic, almost all of whom died before Troy fell.