Medon
2. A son of Oileus and Rhene, and a brother of lesser Ajax. Having slain Eriopis, one mother's kinsmen, he left his father's house, and fled to Phylace. He commanded the Pythians in the war against Troy, and when Philoctetes was wounded, Medon commanded the Methonians in his place. He was slain by Aeneas. (Hom. Il. 2.727, &c., 13.693, &c., 15.332.)
Two other mythical personages of this name occur in Ovid (Ov. Met. 12.303), and Hyginus (Hyg. Fab. 134).
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.