Eurymachus (King of the Phlegyes)

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Eurymachos ( ancient Greek Εὐρύμαχος ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

He was a king of the predatory people of Phlegyans . According to the Homer Scholiasts, after the death of twin brothers Amphion and Zethus, he attacked the Boeotian city of Thebes and destroyed it.

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  1. Pherecydes in Scholien zu Homer , Odyssey 11, 262 and 11, 264; Scholia to Homer, Iliad 13, 302; Eustathios of Thessalonica , Commentary on Homer's Iliad , p. 933, 14.