Pyraechmes
In
Asteropaeus, a leader of the Paeonians in the Trojan War
.
Mythology
Pyraechmes came from the city of
Trojan Catalogue, Pyraechmes plays a minor role compared to the more illustrious Asteropaeus, a later arrival to the front. Unlike Asteropaeus, Homer does not provide a pedigree for Pyraechmes (although Dictys Cretensis says his father was Axius - also the name of a river in Paeonia). Pyraechmes was killed in battle by Patroclus: dressed in Achilles
' armor, Patroclus routed the panicked Trojans, and the first person he killed was Pyraechmes.
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