Editing Trojan War (section)

====Telephus====
When the Achaeans left for the war, they did not know the way, and accidentally landed in [[Mysia]], ruled by King [[Telephus]], son of Heracles, who had led a contingent of [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]]ns to settle there.<ref>Pausanias, 1.4.6.</ref> In the battle, Achilles wounded Telephus,<ref>Pindar, ''Isthmian'' 8.</ref> who had killed [[Thersander]].<ref>Pausanias, 9.5.14.</ref> Because the wound would not heal, Telephus asked an oracle, "What will happen to the wound?" The oracle responded, "he that wounded shall heal". The Achaean fleet then set sail and was scattered by a storm. Achilles landed in Skyros and married Deidamia. A new gathering was set again in Aulis.<ref name=PC1/>

[[Telephus]] went to [[Avlida|Aulis]], and either pretended to be a beggar, asking Agamemnon to help heal his wound,<ref name="Apollodorus, Epitome 3.20">Apollodorus, ''Epitome'' 3.20.</ref> or kidnapped [[Orestes]] and held him for ransom, demanding the wound be healed.<ref>Aeschylus fragment 405–410</ref> Achilles refused, claiming to have no medical knowledge. Odysseus reasoned that the spear that had inflicted the wound must be able to heal it. Pieces of the spear were scraped off onto the wound, and Telephus was healed.<ref>Pliny, ''Natural History'' 24.42, 34.152.</ref> Telephus then showed the Achaeans the route to Troy.<ref name="Apollodorus, Epitome 3.20"/>

Some scholars have regarded the expedition against Telephus and its resolution as a derivative reworking of elements from the main story of the Trojan War, but it has also been seen as fitting the story-pattern of the "preliminary adventure" that anticipates events and themes from the main narrative, and therefore as likely to be "early and integral".<ref>Davies, esp. pp. 8, 10.</ref>