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Talthybius

Ταλθύβιος

(Ταλθύβιος), The herald of Agumenmon at Troy. (Hom. Il. 1.320; Ov. Ep. 3.9.) He was worshipped as a hero at Sparta and Argos, where sacrifices also were offered to him. (Paus. 3.12.6, 7.23, in fin.; Hdt. 7.134.)

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.