Tags: Mythological Figure.
Axylus (Ancient Greek: Ἄξυλος) is mentioned in Book VI of Homer’s Iliad.Diomedes expert in war cries killed Axylus son of Teuthranus a rich man from well-built Arisbe.People really loved him for he lived beside a road welcomed all passers-by into his home. But not one of those men he’d entertained now stood in front of him protecting him from wretched death.Diomedes took the lives of two men–Axylusand his attendant Calesius his charioteer.So both men went down into the underworld.