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Oileus

Bienor’s charioteer

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Canonical name
Oileus
Disambiguator
Bienor’s charioteer
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
Distinct from inherited Oileus by the explicit charioteer role.

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No aliases recorded.

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Claims

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·Direct

Oileus, Bienor’s charioteer, charges from his chariot and is killed through his bronze visor.

See evidence text
“his comrade and charioteer Oileus, who sprang from his chariot and was coming full towards him; but Agamemnon struck him on the forehead with his spear; his bronze visor was of no avail against the weapon, which pierced both bronze and bone, so that his brains were battered in and he was killed in full fight”

Additional evidence

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·Direct
“slew first Bienor, a leader of his people, and afterwards his comrade and charioteer Oileus”

Passage preview

Book 11 · Passage 7

Agamemnon led them on, and slew first Bienor, a leader of his people, and afterwards his comrade and charioteer Oileus, who sprang from his chariot and was coming full towards him; but Agamemnon struck him on the forehead with his spear; his bronze visor was of no avail against the weapon, which pierced both bronze and bone, so that his brains were battered in and he was killed in full fight.