Eurypylus (son of Euaemon)

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Ancient Greek: Εὐρύπυλος Eurypylos) was a Thessalian
king.

Family

Eurypylus was the son of

Ops. Another source gives his mother's name as either Deipyle or Deityche.[1] Alternate genealogies made him a son of Hyperochus and father of Ormenus.[2]

Mythology

Eurypylus led the Thessalians during the

Axion:[12] this makes the account of Hyginus wrong in informing that Eurypylus killed only one defender of Troy.[13] He was also one of the Greeks to enter the Trojan Horse.[14]

Eurypylus survived the Trojan War; his further destiny as described by

Patrae), where he found people sacrificing a youth and a maiden to Artemis, to propitiate the goddess for the crime of Comaetho and Melanippus, who had polluted her shrine. The people of the town recognised him as a leader an oracle had said would come to them and bring about an image and cult of a foreign deity, at which point the sacrifices were to cease. After this, Eurypylus regained his sanity and the people of Patrae no longer needed to make human sacrifices. His tomb was in the city, and he was honored as a hero at the festival of Dionysus.[15]

Namesake

References

  1. Tzetzes
    , Homeric Allegories, Prologue, 619 - 620
  2. ^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Odes 7.42
  3. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.10.8
  4. ^ Homer, Iliad 2.735
  5. ^ Homer, Iliad 8.265; 11. 663 = 16. 27
  6. ^ Homer, Iliad 7.167
  7. ^ Il. 11. 575 - 592
  8. ^ Il. 11, cf. especially 11. 660 - 664
  9. ^ Il. 11. 655 - 803; 12. 1; 15. 390 ff
  10. ^ Il. 5. 77
  11. ^ Il. 6. 36
  12. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10. 27. 2
  13. Hyginus
    , Fabulae, 114
  14. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 12. 340; Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilios, 176
  15. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 7. 19. 6 - 10