Nireus
Νιρεύς
(Νιρεύς).
1. A son of Charopus and Aglaia, was, next to Achilles, the handsomest among the Greeks at Troy, but unwarlike. He came from the island of Syme (between Rhodes and Cnidus), and commanded only three ships and a small number of men. (Hom. Il. 2.671 ; Hyg. Fab. 270.) According to Diodorus (5.53), he also ruled over a part of Cnidus, and he is said to have been slain by Eurypylus or Aeneias. (Dict. Cret. 4.17; Dar. Phryg. 21; Hyg. Fab. 113.) His beauty became proverbial. (Lucian, Dial. Mort. 9.)
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.