Eurybates (Herald of Odysseus)
Eurybates ( ancient Greek Εὐρυβάτης ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
He is the ugly, but docile and, above all, clever herald of Odysseus , whom he accompanies into the Trojan War in order to perform his heraldry, which Odysseus greatly appreciates. According to the Odyssey, he had round shoulders, dark skin and woolly hair ( γυρὸς ἐν ὤμοισιν, μελανόχροος, οὐλοκάρηνος ). Pausanias reports a representation of Eurybates in the Lesche der Knidier painted by Polygnotos .
Eponyms
In 1991 the Jupiter Trojan (3548) Eurybates was named after him.
literature
- Konrad Seeliger : Eurybates 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1420 ( digitized version ).
- Ulrich Hoefer : Eurybates 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Sp. 1318.
Remarks
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 1, 320; 2, 184; 9, 170,320; Odyssey 19:247.
- ↑ Homer, Odyssey 19:246; some researchers therefore argue that a man is described with negroid body characteristics, see e.g. B. Robin Lane Fox : Traveling Heroes. Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer. Allen Lane, London 2008, p. 116 (German edition: Reisen Helden. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2011, p. 151); Frank M. Snowden : Blacks in Antiquity. Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience. Harvard University Press, Cambridge - London 1970, pp. 19, 102ff, 122.
- ^ Pausanias 10:25 , 4.
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 18138