Podalirius

The former butterfly genus Podalirius is nowadays included in Heliconius.

In Greek mythology, Podalirius or Podalarius (Greek: Ποδαλείριος) was a son of Asclepius. With Machaon, his brother, he led thirty ships from Thessaly in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks.^[1] Like Machaon, he was a legendary healer. He healed Philoctetes, holder of the bow and arrows of Heracles required to end the war.^[2]

References

^ Homer. Iliad, II, 729–733.
^ Apollodorus. Epitome, V, 8.

Characters in the Iliad

Achaeans	Acamas Achilles Adrastus Agamemnon Agapenor Ajax the Greater Ajax the Lesser Alcimus Amphion the Epean Anticlus Antilochus Arcesilaus Ascalaphus Automedon Balius and Xanthus Bias Calchas Diomedes Elephenor Epeius Eudoros Euneus Euryalus Eurybates Eurylochus Hecamede Helen Ialmenus Idomeneus Leitus Leonteus Machaon Mecisteus Medon Meges Menelaus Menestheus Meriones Neoptolemus Nestor Nireus Odysseus Palamedes Patroclus Peneleus Philoctetes Phoenix Podalirius Podarces Polites Polypoetes Promachus Protesilaus Prothoenor Schedius Stentor Sthenelus Talthybius Teucer Thersites Thoas Thrasymedes Tlepolemus

Trojans	Aeneas Aesepus Agenor Alcathous Amphimachus Anchises Andromache Antenor Antiphates Antiphus Archelochus Asius Asteropaios Astyanax Axylus Briseis Calesius Caletor Cassandra Chryseis Chryses Clytius Cycnus Dares Phrygius Deiphobus Dolon Epistrophus Eteoneus Euphemus Euphorbus Eurypylus Glaucus Gorgythion Halizones Hector Hecuba Helenus Hyperenor Ilioneus Imbrius Kebriones Laocoön Lycaon Lykomedes Melanippus Mentes Mydon Mygdon of Phrygia Othryoneus Pandarus Panthous Paris Pedasus Peirous Phorcys Polites Polydamas Polybus Polydorus Priam Pylaemenes Pyraechmes Rhesus of Thrace Sarpedon Tenes Theano Ucalegon