PROTESILAI TURRIS, the sepulchre of Protesilaus, with a temple, at which Alexander sacrificed, (Arian); situated at the south extremity of the Helle spont, near the Chersonesus Thracia. Protesilaus was the first Greek who landed on the coast of Troy, and the first Greek slain by the Trojans, (Homer, Ovid). His wife Laodamia, to assuage her grief, begged the gods for a sight of his shade; and obtaining her request, she expired in his embraces, (Hyginus). Protesilaus was also called Phylacides, from Phylace, a town of Thessaly.