In
Greek mythology, Pylaeus (
Ancient Greek: Πύλαιος), son of Lethus, son of
Teutamides, descendant of
Pelasgus.[1] He was one of the allies to King
Priam in the
Trojan War; he commanded the
Pelasgian contingent together with his brother
Hippothous.[2][3] Pylaeus is hardly ever mentioned separately from his brother; they are said to have fallen in battle together by Dictys Cretensis[4] and to have been buried "in a garden" according to the late Latin poet
Ausonius.[5]
Strabo, in his comment on the Homeric passage referenced above, mentions that according to a local tradition of
Lesbos, Pylaeus also commanded the Lesbian army and had a mountain on the island named Pylaeus after him.[6]
^Scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.842;
Eustathius on Iliad 358.19;
Diogenes Laërtius, 8.1.31: Pylaios was one of the three epithets that Hermes bore as the conveyor of the souls of the dead to the Underworld.
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