Meriones killed Phereclus – son of Tecton,
son of the blacksmith Harmon – the fighter’s hands
had the skill to craft all kinds of complex work
since Pallas Athena loved him most, her protege
who had built Paris his steady, balanced ships,
trim launchers of death, freighted with death
for all of Troy and now for the shipwright too:
what could the man know of all the gods’ decrees?
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 5, lines 64-71. The Greek captain from Crete Meriones kills the Trojan shipbuilder Phereclus. A protege of goddess Athena and much loved by her, Phereclus was a target for the Greeks because he built Paris’s ship, including the boat he used to kidnap Helen.