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Democoon

Δεμοκόων

(Δεμοκόων), a natural son of Priam, who came from Abydos to assist his father against the Greeks, but was slain by Odysseus. (Hom. Il. 4.500; Apollod. 3.12.5.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.