person
Adrastus (Trojan captive)
Adrastus
also: Ἄδρηστος
A Trojan whom Menelaus takes alive and is ready to spare for ransom; Agamemnon overrules his brother's pity and kills him — one of the poem's starkest statements that this war shows no mercy (Book 6).
Reading notes
- The Iliad §6.1 Adrastus
A Trojan whom Menelaus takes alive and is ready to spare for ransom in Book 6; Agamemnon overrules his brother's pity and has him killed — one of the poem's starkest illustrations of war's mercilessness.