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Was Teucer a hero?[edit]

There is some commentary (apologies, I don’t have it to hand) to the effect that the portrayal of Teucer in the Iliad does not show him to be particularly heroic, as he hides behind his brother Ajax’s shield, which Ajax moves momentarily aside so Teucer can get off a bowshot, then moves back so Teucer can hide again. This is quite in line with Homer’s general disparagement of archers as fighting in a less « manly » way than spearmen (Pandarus breaks the truce by shooting an arrow at Agamemnon, Paris is essentially an archer rather than a spearman, etc.). If I can find the commentary, I will post it on the main page. Partnerfrance (talk) 21:01, 23 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Hero" in this context does not mean good or noble. See Greek hero cult. Paul August ☎ 22:24, 23 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That is a very good point: you are right, I should not have used the word "hero" (even someone as reprehensible as Tantalus is a "hero" in the context of Greek mythology). I was just trying to point out that the discussion in the main article makes it appear that Teucer is portrayed as being as valiant a warrior as other fighters in the Iliad, whereas Homer seems to have a preference for spearmen or swordsmen who fight out in the open and risk their own lives as opposed to fighters using flying weapons from safe cover. I seem to recall there is another passage where he refers to a group of fighters who use only slingshots to hurl stones from afar, in which he "damns them with faint praise" (I promise to go back to the Iliad to provide sources for all this).Partnerfrance (talk) 12:01, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]