Poltys hosted Heracles when the hero came to Aenus; although Poltys welcomed Heracles, Sarpedon did not, and was slain by Heracles on the beach.
In a story related by
Plutarch (Morals), Poltys ruled at the outbreak of the
Trojan War, and was solicited both by the Trojan and Greek ambassadors. Poltys advised
Paris to restore
Helen, promising to give him two beautiful women to replace her. The advice was declined.[4]Homer does not mention Poltys in the Iliad, and the story is obviously post-Homeric.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.