Meges Phyleides

In Greek mythology, Mégês Phyleïdês was a son of Phyleus. He commanded the armies of the Epeans or Dulichians at the Trojan War.

Meges (Μέγης), a son of Phyleus by Eustyoche, Ctimene, or Timandra, and a grandson of Augeas. He is mentioned among the suitors of Helen, and in forty ships he led his bands from Dulichium and the Echinades against Troy. (Hom. Il. ii.625, &c., v. 69, xiii.692,xv.520, &c., xix.269 ; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 303; Pausanias x. 25. § 2; Strab. x. pp. 456, 459.) Polygnotus had painted him in the Lesche at Delphi as a wounded man. According to Dictys Cretensis (iii. 10) he was killed in the Trojan war.

Homer, Iliad Book 2

Men from Doulichium, sacred Echinean- islands, 
living across the sea from Elis, were commanded  
by warlike Meges, son of Phyleus, the horseman, 
loved of Zeus. Phyleus, angry with his father,
moved to Doulichium. Meges brought with him 
forty black ships in his flotilla.

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