Podaleirius
Ποδαλείριος
(Ποδαλείριος), a son of Asclepius and Epione or Arsinoe, and a brother of Machaon, along with whom he led the Thessalians of Tricca against Troy (Hom. Il. 2.729, &c.; Apollod. 3.10.8; Paus. 4.31.9). He was, like his brother, skilled in the medical art (Hom. Il. 11.832, &c.). On his return from Troy he was cast by a storm on the coast of Syros in Caria, where he is said to have settled (Paus. 2.26.7, 3.26.7). He was worshipped as a hero on mount Dria. (Strab. vi. p.284.)
Another mythical personage of this name occurs in Virgil. (Aen. 12.304.)
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.