Eurypylos (son of Euaimon)

Eurypylos ( Greek  Εὐρύπυλος ) is in Greek mythology a participant in the Trojan War .

Eurypylos, son of Euaimon , was a Thessalian hero. According to Hyginus Mythographus , his mother's name was Ops . The Greek antiquarian Demetrios von Skeptis mentions that Ormenos was Eurypylos' paternal grandfather. A scholion on the Olympics of Pindar gives a different genealogy, according to which the father of Eurypylos was not Euaimon but Hyperochus ; according to the same source, Eurypylos would have been Ormenus's father.

Eurypylos was one of Helena's suitors . According to Homer's Iliad , he fought on the side of the Greeks during the Trojan War as the leader of 40 ships of the Thessalians from Ormenion , Asterion , the Titanos Mountains and the Hypereia spring . On the battlefield he distinguished himself several times and killed, among others, Hypsenor , Melanthios , Hellos and, according to the Little Iliad, the son of Priam, Axion . He also offered to fight Hector . But after he had killed Apisaon , the son of Phausios, with a javelin, he was wounded in the hip by Paris with an arrow shot. He limped laboriously out of the area of ​​the fight scene and met Patroklos on the way to the camp . Since the army doctors, Podaleirios and his brother Machaon , were injured or still in combat, Patroclus tended Eurypylos' wounds himself.

Later, Eurypylos was one of those Greeks who hid in the Trojan horse . In Virgil he comes in Sinons at lies narrative. According to Pausanias , he is said to have been identical to a hero of the same name from Patrai ; So after the end of the Trojan War he received from the spoils of war a sacred ark with the image of Dionysus Aisymnetes , at the sight of which he went mad and, being driven to Patrai by the winds, was cured of this madness again. According to another version of the legend, however, he came to Libya on the way home .

literature

• Ludwig von Sybel : Eurypylos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 1427-1430 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Tümpel : Eurypylos 1). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Sp. 1347.

Remarks

1. ↑ Homer Iliad 2, 736.
2. ^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 97.
3. ↑ Fragment of Demetrios von Skeptis in Strabo 9, 438f.
4. ↑ Akusilaos or Achaios in Scholion at Pindar, Olympia 7, 42.
5. ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 3, 10, 8, 3, § 131; Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 81.
6. ↑ Homer, Iliad 2, 734-737.
7. ↑ Homer, Iliad 5, 76-84; Tzetzes , Homerica 60.
8. ↑ Homer, Iliad 6:36; Tzetzes, Homerica 118.
9. ^ Quintus of Smyrna , Posthomerica 11:67 .
10. ↑ Pausanias 10:27 , 2.
11. ↑ Homer, Iliad 7:167.
12. ↑ Homer, Iliad 11: 575-584.
13. ↑ Homer, Iliad 11, 809-848; 15, 390ff .; Tzetzes, Homerica 197ff.
14. ↑ Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 12, 319; Tryphiodoros , Iliu halosis 176; Tzetzes, Posthomerica 646.
15. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 2, 114.
16. ^ Pausanias 7:19 .
17. ↑ Lycophron , Alexandra 901f. with scholias.