Character · Individual

Epicles

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Canonical name: Epicles
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Character
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: A comrade of Sarpedon killed by Telamonian Ajax.

Aliases

comrade of Sarpedon

Descriptive reference · Direct

Location presence

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great wall of the Achaeans1 observation

·Direct

Epicles is on the high Achaean wall when Ajax strikes him and he falls from it.

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“Ajax son of Telamon killed brave Epicles, a comrade of Sarpedon, hitting him with a jagged stone that lay by the battlements at the very top of the wall. As men now are, even one who is in the bloom of youth could hardly lift it with his two hands, but Ajax raised it high aloft and flung it down, smashing Epicles’ four-crested helmet so that the bones of his head were crushed to pieces, and he fell from the high wall”

Claims

·Direct

Epicles is killed when Ajax’s jagged stone smashes his four-crested helmet and skull, sending him lifeless from the high wall.

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“hitting him with a jagged stone that lay by the battlements at the very top of the wall. As men now are, even one who is in the bloom of youth could hardly lift it with his two hands, but Ajax raised it high aloft and flung it down, smashing Epicles’ four-crested helmet so that the bones of his head were crushed to pieces, and he fell from the high wall as though he were diving, with no more life left in him”

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·Direct

“Ajax son of Telamon killed brave Epicles, a comrade of Sarpedon”