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Agelaus or Ageláos is, in Greek mythology, the name of various individuals.

  1. Agelaus, or Ageláos, son of Damastor was a suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus.
  2. Agelaus was a herdsman who saved the life of the Trojan prince Paris, exposed as an infant on Mount Ida, owing to a prophecy that he would be the reason for the destruction of Troy, and brought him up as his own son.
  3. Agelaus, son of Maion. He was a Trojan warrior and killed, during the Trojan War, by Ajax.[1]
  4. Agelaus of Miletus, son of Hippasus. He fought against the Greeks as part of contingent of Nastes in the Trojan War and was killed by Meges.[2]

References

  1. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 3.247 [1]
  2. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 1.300 [2]