With Machaon, his brother, he led thirty ships from Tricca, Thessaly in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks.
[5][6] Others relate that on the way back from Troy Podalirius' ship was blown off course so he landed in Syrnus, Caria, where he settled.
[7] In yet another version, he got shipwrecked near the Carian coast but was rescued by a shepherd named Bybassus, the eponym-to-be of a city in Caria.
Podalirus founded two cities, one of which he named Syrnus after his wife and the other Bybassus after the shepherd to whom he owed his life.
[10] Lycophron writes that Podalirius was buried in Italy near the cenotaph of Calchas,[11] but John Tzetzes accuses him of providing false information and defends the versions cited above.