Protesilaus

[27] A fragment from the "Protesilaus" of Euripides.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

At the town of Elaeus opposite Troy, Alexander offered sacrifice for the last time in Europe at the tomb of the hero Protesilaus, the first Greek to reach Asian soil—and the first to die—at the start of the Trojan War.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

At the town of Elaeus opposite Troy, Alexander offered sacrifice for the last time in Europe at the tomb of the hero Protesilaus, the first Greek to reach Asian soil—and the first to die—at the start of the Trojan War.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

At the town of Elaeus opposite Troy, Alexander offered sacrifice for the last time in Europe at the tomb of the hero Protesilaus, the first Greek to reach Asian soil—and the first to die—at the start of the Trojan War.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

And they that held Phylace and flowery Pyrasus, the sanctuary of Demeter, and Iton, mother of flocks, and Antron, hard by the sea, and Pteleos, couched in grass, these again had as leader warlike Protesilaus, while yet he lived;

Historical Amnesia EAGEAGEAG 2009

Protesilaus, Penelope to her Ulysses, she will so continue her honour, good name, credit, Penelope conjux semper Ulyssis ero; I shall always be Penelope the wife of Ulysses.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Protesilaus 'altar and tomb [5818] cures almost all manner of diseases, consumptions, dropsies, quartan-agues, sore eyes: and amongst the rest, such as are lovesick shall there be helped.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Some of our astrologers will effect as much by characteristical images, ex sigillis Hermetis, Salomonis, Chaelis, &c. mulieris imago habentis crines sparsos, &c. Our old poets and fantastical writers have many fabulous remedies for such as are lovesick, as that of Protesilaus 'tomb in Philostratus, in his dialogue between Phoenix and Vinitor: Vinitor, upon occasion discoursing of the rare virtues of that shrine, telleth him that

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Then the Greeks tried to land at Ilium, but the Trojans prevent them, and Protesilaus is killed by Hector.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Protesilaus — who, when the Hellenes reached the Trojan shore, first dared to land — was called Polydora, and was the daughter of Meleager, the son of Oeneus.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007