Euryalus
Euryalus (Ancient Syracuse, and to several different characters from Greek mythology and classical literature:
Classical mythology
- Euryalus, named on sixth and fifth century BC pottery as being one of the Olympian gods in the Gigantomachy.[1]
- Euryalus, a suitor of
- Euryalus, one of the eight sons of Melas, who plotted against their uncle Oeneus and were slain by Tydeus.[4]
- Euryalus, the
- Euryalus (or Agrolas), brother and fellow builder of Hyperbius the Athenian.[9]
- Euryalus was the name of a son of Euippe and Odysseus, who was mistakenly slain by his father for plotting against his father.[10]
- Euryalus, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.[12] Euryalus, with the other suitors, was slain by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.[13]
- Euryalus, also one of the Suitors of Penelope from Zacynthus with other 43 wooers.[14] He suffered the same fate as his above namesake.[13]
- In the Aeneid by Virgil, Nisus and Euryalus are ideal friends and lovers,[15] who died during a raid on the Rutulians.[6][16]
- Euryalus, a surname of Apollo.[17]
Other uses
- Hyalophora euryalus, the ceanothus silkmoth, a species of moth of the family Saturniidae
- Protambulyx euryalus, a species of moth of the family Sphingidae
Notes
- ISBN 0-19-814912-3, pp.16, 183, 184; Akropolis 2.211 (Beazley Archive 200125; LIMC Gigantes 299); British Museum E 47 (Beazley Archive 203256; LIMC Gigantes 301).
- ^ Pausanias, 6.21.10
- ^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Odes 1.27
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.8.5
- ^ Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue, 562
- ^ ISBN 978-0-14-051235-9.
- ISBN 978-0-87220-352-5. 23.704-719.
- Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.57
- ^ Sophocles, Euryalus as cited in Parthenius, 3
- ^ Butcher, SH and Lang, A: The Odyssey of Homer, Project Gutenberg
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 7.26–27
- ^ a b Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 7.30
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 5.294
- ^ Virgil. Aeneid 9.179-431
- ^ Hesychius of Alexandria s.v. Euryalos
References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. .
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pliny the Elder, The Natural History. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4
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