·Direct
Podargus was Menelaus's own fleet horse, yoked for the race.
See evidence text
“yellow-haired Menelaus son of Atreus rose and yoked his fleet horses, Agamemnon’s mare Aethe, and his own horse Podargus.”
Animal · Individual
Podargus
Menelaus’s horse
Published entity metadata
Read-only identity and editorial metadata.
- Canonical name
- Podargus
- Disambiguator
- Menelaus’s horse
- Kind
- Animal
- Scope
- Individual
- Editorial note
- Distinct from inherited Podargus, explicitly Hector’s horse.
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No aliases recorded.
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Location presence
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Claims
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·Reported
Menelaus urged Podargus onward, predicting the opposing older horses would tire.
See evidence text
“‘Keep your pace, and slacken not; the limbs of the other horses will weary sooner than yours, for they are neither of them young.’”
·Direct
Podargus feared the rebuke, accelerated, and nearly caught the others.
See evidence text
“The horses feared the rebuke of their master, and went faster, so that they were soon nearly up with the others.”
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·Direct
“his own horse Podargus”