Talthybius

The herald of Agamemnon in the Greek army at Troy.1 He was worshiped as a hero at Sparta and Argos, where sacrifices also were offered to him.2

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References

Notes

  1. Homer. Iliad i, 320; Ovid. Heroides, iii, 9.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 12.6; vii, 23, in fin.; Herodotus. Histories vii, 134.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.