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Thrasymedes

Θρασυμήδης

(Θρασυμήδης), a son of the Pylian Nestor and Anaxibia, accompanied his father on the expedition against Troy, and returned with him to Pylos. (Hom. Il. 9.81, 14.10, 16.321, 17.378, 705, Od. 3.39, 414, 442, &c.) According to Philostratus (Her. 3.2), he did not go to Troy. He was the father of Sillus, and his tomb was shown at Pylos in Messenia. (Paus. 2.18.7, 4.36.2.)

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.