Eurymachus (King of the Phlegyes)
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.
literature
- Ulrich Hoefer : Eurymachos 2) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 1333.
Remarks
- ↑ 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.