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Adrestus’s father

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Canonical name
Adrestus’s father
Disambiguator
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Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
Unnamed in Book 6; retained because his promised ransom and stored treasure drive Adrestus’s plea.

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Claims

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·Reported

Adrestus claims his rich father stores gold, bronze, and wrought iron and would pay a large ransom for his living son.

See evidence text
“my father is rich and has much treasure of gold, bronze, and wrought iron laid by in his house. From this store he will give you a large ransom should he hear of my being alive and at the ships of the Achaeans”

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·Direct
“my father is rich and has much treasure of gold, bronze, and wrought iron laid by in his house”

Passage preview

Book 6 · Passage 5

Then Menelaus of the loud war-cry took Adrestus alive, for his horses ran into a tamarisk bush, as they were flying wildly over the plain, and broke the pole from the car; they went on towards the city along with the others in full flight, but Adrestus rolled out, and fell in the dust flat on his face by the wheel of his chariot; Menelaus came up to him spear in hand, but Adrestus caught him by the knees begging for his life. ‘Take me alive,’ he cried, ‘son of Atreus, and you shall have a full ransom for me: my father is rich and has much treasure of gold, bronze, and wrought iron laid by in his house. From this store he will give you a large ransom should he hear of my being alive and at the ships of the Achaeans.’