In Greek mythology, Phereclus or Phereclos, son of Tecton, was the shipbuilder who constructed the boat that Paris used to kidnap Helen.Homer, Iliad 5.59-69Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E.3.2Colluthus, The Rape of Helen 190-201Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilios 57Lycophron, Alexandra 90-101D Scholia to the Iliad, 3.443Tzetzes, ad Lycophronem 24 & 97
Mythology Meriones targeted Phereclos and killed him by ramming a spear into his right buttock. Phereclus was a target because he built Paris' ships, and he could make other contraptions of war.
In the Iliad, Homer vividly illustrates Phereclus' death in book five:
Namesake 2357 Phereclos, Jovian asteroid named after Phereclus
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