ABSTRACT
Son of Priam, king of Troy, and of Hecabe. He took a prominent part in the fighting at Troy, avenging Asius whom Idomeneus had killed. His brother Hector was very close to him. When Paris was dead, Deiphobus and Helenus competed for Helen’s hand, which Deiphobus won. On the night of Troy’s fall, he took Helen to examine the Wooden Horse where she tried to entice the Greek captains hiding within to give themselves away, imitating the voices of their wives. Then, wishing to ingratiate herself with Menelaus, she removed all the weapons from Deiphobus’ house, so that when Menelaus and Odysseus came they killed him easily. His body disappeared, but Aeneas erected a cenotaph for him on Cape Rhoeteum; then later, according to Virgil, he heard the story of his death from Deiphobus’ ghost in Hades.
