person
Machaon
also: Μαχάων
Son of Asclepius and the Achaeans' physician-hero, who treats Menelaus's wound in Book 4; his own wounding in Book 11 sends Nestor's chariot back to camp and sets up Patroclus's fateful errand.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §2.441 Machaon
Son of Asclepius and the Achaeans' physician-hero; he treats Menelaus's wound in Book 4, and his own wounding by Paris in Book 11 sends Nestor's chariot back to camp, setting Patroclus's fatal errand in motion.