Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

by Stephen Fry

Toxeus raised his bow.236 “Stand aside, nephew. If you do not present the trophy to the family, the family will take the trophy.” With a roar of anger Meleager flicked a knife from his belt. It flew straight into Toxeus’s eye. Before Toxeus was dead on the ground, Meleager had thrust a sword into the side of Plexippus and slit the throat of Eurypylus. Only Evippus was now left alive. At the sight of the blood-maddened fire in Meleager’s eyes, Evippus dropped the sword he had been struggling to draw. “Spare me, dear nephew!” he pleaded. “Think of your mother. My sister. You cannot deprive her of four—” Meleager, crazed by his love for Atalanta and crazed by the killing, had no time for mercy. He brought up his knee into the older man’s groin. Evippus doubled up in pain, as Meleager took his head and twisted it