The Myrmidons were this great hero's brutal cohorts in the Trojan War
There were fifty fast black 
ships that bore his troops .... dropped to the world of night: Sarpedon's stalwart 
cohorts, [DOC] [TLE] Homer's Foreshadowing of the End of the Heroic Age in The Iliad [PAR] During the time of the Trojan War as detailed by Homer, heroes were the ... 
sought prowess and great victories on the battlefield, and revered personal ... 
other portrays a town full of death and destruction, a city in the throes of a brutal 
war.