Pyraechmes

Pyraechmes

Pyraechmes was, along with Asteropaeus, a leader of the Paeonians in the Trojan War. In the "Iliad", when Patroclus came out dressed in Achilles' armour he sent a panicked group of Trojans in a route. The first person he killed was Pyraechmes.


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