Editing Meges (section)

== Mythology ==
Meges was one of the [[suitors of Helen]],<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], 3.10.8</ref> and commanded the armies of the [[Echinades|Echinadians]] and the [[Dulichium|Dulichians]] during the [[Trojan War]], having summoned forty or sixty ships; he also led a contingent of Epeans who had once migrated to Dulichium together with his father.<ref name="Tzetzes All." /><ref name="Hyginus">Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.625, 5.69, 13.692 & 15.531; [[Euripides]], ''Iphigenia in Aulis'' 284; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 97</ref>

Meges was credited with killing a number of opponents, including [[Pedaeus]] (a son of [[Antenor]]),<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 5.69</ref> [[Croesmus]],<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 15.523</ref> [[Amphiclus]],<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 16.313</ref> [[Itymoneus]], [[Agelaus]],<ref>[[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], 1.279</ref> [[Eurymenes]],<ref>Quintus Smyrnaeus, 10.108</ref> and [[Deiopites]].<ref>Quintus Smyrnaeus, 13.212</ref> [[Dolops]] attempted to strike him with a spear but the corselet Meges was wearing, a gift for his father from [[Euphetes]] of [[Efyra|Ephyra]], saved his life.<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 15.525 ff.</ref> Meges helped [[Odysseus]] to collect gifts for [[Achilles]].<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 19.239 ff.</ref> He was one of the men to enter the [[Trojan Horse]].<ref>Quintus Smyrnaeus, 12.326</ref>

According to [[Dictys Cretensis]], Meges fell at Troy.<ref>[[Dictys Cretensis]], 3.10</ref> [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] mentions a painting of him wounded in the arm by a Trojan, Admetes the son of Augeas.<ref>Pausanias, 10.25.5</ref> [[Tzetzes]] relates that Meges, along with [[Prothous]] and a number of others, perished at [[Euboea]].<ref>Tzetzes on [[Lycophron]], 902</ref>