Eurypylus
In Greek mythology, Eurypylus /jʊəˈrɪpɪləs/ (Ancient Greek: Εὐρύπυλος Eurypylos) was the name of several different people:
- Eurypylus, was a Thessalian king, son of Euaemon and Ops. He was a former suitor of Helen thus he led the Thessalians during Trojan War.[1]
- Eurypylus, was son of Telephus and Astyoche.[2] He was a great warrior, who led a Mysian contingent that fought alongside the Trojans against the Greeks in the Trojan War, and was killed by Achilles' son Neoptolemus
- Eurypylus, son of Poseidon and king of Cos.[3]
- Eurypylus, another son of Poseidon by the Pleiad Celaeno. He ruled over the Fortunate Islands.[4]
- Eurypylus, a son of Heracles and Eubote, daughter of Thespius.[5]
- Eurypylus, a son of King Thestius of Pleuron and Eurythemis, daughter of Cleoboea. He was the brother of Althaea, Leda, Hypermnestra, Evippus, Plexippus and Iphiclus. Eurypylus participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, during which he insulted Atalanta and was killed by Meleager.[6]
- Eurypylus, son of Telestor and father of Asterodia.[7]
- Eurypylus, a son of Dexamenus who accompanied Heracles in his Trojan campaign. According to Pausanias, some authors related of him, and not of the son of Euaemon, the story of the cursed chest.[8]
- Eurypylus, a son of Eurystheus killed by Heracles at a sacrificial meal alongside his brothers Perimedes and Eurybius.[9]
- Eurypylus, one of the suitors of Penelope, from Dulichium.[10]
- Eurypylus, a son of Temenus, brother of Agelaus, Callias and Hyrnetho. As Temenus intended to leave his kingdom to Hyrnetho and Deiphontes, Eurypylus and his brothers hired assassins to kill Temenus, but the army still supported their sister and her husband.[11]
- Eurypylus, father of two daughters Morphe and Clyte, who were said to have been the first prostitutes in history.[12]
References
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 10. 8, Homer, Iliad, 2. 735
- ^ Dictys Cretensis 2. 5
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 7. 1; Theocritus, Idyll 8. 5 with scholia
- ^ Bibliotheca 3. 10. 1
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 7. 8
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 7. 10
- ^ Scholia on Odyssey 15. 16
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 7. 19. 9
- ^ Athenaeus, Banquet of the Learned, 4. 158
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca Epitome of Book 4, 7. 27
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 8. 5
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Hippolytus, 408 with reference to Herodianus the scholiast specifically stresses that this Eurypylus is distinct from Eurypylus of Cos
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