Eumelos (Pherai)

Eumelos ( Greek  Εὔμηλος , " herd kingdom ") is in Greek mythology the king of Pherai in Thessaly , son of Admetus and Alcestis . He was the consort of Iphthime , the sister of Penelope .

It was Eumelus who led the peoples of Pherai and Iolkos into the Trojan War . According to Homer's Iliad , there in the ship catalog , he led 11 ships, each manned by 120 men, to the coast of Troy . He brought excellent horses, consecrated to Apollo , to Troy , with which he won the second prize on the occasion of the funeral ceremony for Patroclus , although he fell.

He was one of the warriors stuck in the Trojan Horse .

reception

In the story Kassandra by Christa Wolf , Eumelos is a Trojan who, as head of the palace guard, builds up an extensive security or informant system and thus plays a major role in the transformation of Troy into a totalitarian state.

swell

• Homer , Iliad 2,711,764 ; 23,288,375,536
• Homer, Odyssey 4,798
• Library of Apollodor Epitome 5.5; 7.28
• Quintus of Smyrna , Posthomerica 12,337-360
• Strabo 9.436

literature

• Friedrich A. Voigt: Eumelos 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1402 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Eumelos in the Greek Myth Index (English)