person
Philomeleides
also: Φιλομηλείδης
A wrestler on Lesbos whom Odysseus once threw to great acclaim; Menelaus wishes Odysseus could face the suitors in that same form.
Reading notes
- The Odyssey §17.124 Philomeleides
A wrestler on Lesbos whom Odysseus once threw in a quarrel, to the joy of all the Achaeans. Telemachus repeats Menelaus's wish that Odysseus might come among the suitors in that same form.