Machaon and his brother Podalirius led an army from Thessaly in the Trojan War both fighting on the side of the Greeks. Makhaon and Podalirius were both valued medics and surgeons having inherited their father's talent for medicine. Makhaon (or his brother) healed Philoctetes, Telephus and Menelaus. In the tenth year of the war Makhaon was killed by Eurypylus or Penthesileia