Eurypylos (son of Poseidon)
Eurypylos ( Greek Εὐρύπυλος ) is a king of the Meroper on the island of Kos in Greek mythology .
Eurypylos was a son of Poseidon and Astypalaia . When Herakles was driven to the coast of Kos by a storm on his way back from Troy at night at the instigation of Hera , the islanders took him for the leader of a pirate fleet and tried to prevent him from entering their island by force. The hero then devastated the island and killed Eurypylos and his sons. He took Eurypylos' daughter Chalkiope with him and became from her the father of Thessalus .
A Homer- Scholiast and the Byzantine scholar Eustathios of Thessalonike made Eurypylos a son of Heracles and Chalkiope. According to a Theocritus -Scholiasten believed the Coan nobles that they of chalcone (or Chalkodon) and Antagoras , two sons of Eurypylos and Merops subsidiary Clytia , descended. According to the same source, Eurypylos and Clytia are said to have welcomed the goddess Demeter, who was looking for their daughter Persephone, on Kos.
literature
- Ludwig von Sybel : Eurypylos 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1428 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Karl Tümpel : Eurypylos 2). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 1347 f.
Remarks
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 2, 677 with Scholia.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 2, 7, 1, 1f., § 137f .; Scholion to Homer, Iliad 14, 255.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 14, 250ff. and 15, 26ff.
- ↑ Pherecydes in Scholion at Homer, Iliad 14, 255; Libraries of Apollodor 2, 7, 1, 1f., § 137f. and 2, 7, 8, 9, § 166; Scholion at Pindar , Nemeen 4, 40.
- ↑ Scholien D to Homer, Iliad 2, 677; Eustathios of Thessalonica, Commentary on Homer's Iliad , p. 318.
- ↑ Scholion to Theocritus, Idyll 7, 5.