In Greek mythology, Prylis ( Ancient Greek: Πρύλιν means "dance in armour, armed dance") was a seer and son of Hermes and the

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nymph Issa.

Mythology

Inspired by Athene, Prylis suggested that entry to Troy could be gained by means of a wooden horse. Epeius, a

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, volunteered to build the horse. Afterwards, of course,

Odysseus Odysseus ( ; grc-gre, Ὀδυσσεύς, Ὀδυσεύς, OdysseúsOdyseús, ), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses ( , ; lat, UlyssesUlixes), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the ''Odyssey''. Odysse ...

claimed all the credit for this stratagem. 7543 Prylis was named after this figure in 1973.

Interpretation

Simon Hornblower on

Lycophron Lycophron (; grc-gre, Λυκόφρων ὁ Χαλκιδεύς; born about 330–325 BC) was a Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, sophist, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem ''Alexandra'' is attributed (perhaps falsely). Life and ...

: ''Alexandra'' 220 relates:

"This story is known only from the ''Σ'' to the present passage (and was perhaps developed out of the hint at a stay on Lesbos provided by Homer's '' Odyssey).'' But it cannot have been concocted by ''Σ'' out of Lykophron by intelligent or imaginative guesswork, because the prophecy of the Wooden Horse is absent in the poem. So Prylis' prophecy must represent a genuine but otherwise lost tradition, perhaps selected by Kassandra because it reduced the hated Odysseus's role. In
Apollodorus Apollodorus (Ancient Greek, Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ''Apollodoros'') was a popular name in ancient Greece. It is the masculine gender of a noun compounded from Apollo, the deity, and doron, "gift"; that is, "Gift of Apollo." It may refer to: ...
, ep. 5.14 Odysseus is actually said to have thought the idea of the horse (in Homer, ''Odyssey'' 8.493-4 Epeios makes it 'with Athena', Odysseus merely inserted it into the city; but it is easy to see how this could have been expanded by combining it with general evidence for his cunning so as to make him the actual deviser).

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References

* Hornblower, Simon, ''Lykophron, Alexandra: Greek Text, Translation, Commentary, and Introduction.'' Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom. 2015. Children of Hermes {{Greek-myth-stub