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Eurypylus

In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Eurypylus (Greek

Greek language

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Eurypylus was a son of Thestius

Thestius

In Greek mythology, Thestius was the son of either Ares and Demonice, or Agenor, son of Pleuron by Epicasta. He was the father of Iphicles with Leucippe ....
. He participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar

Calydonian Boar

The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful wom...
, during which he insulted Atalanta

Atalanta

Atalanta is a character from ancient Greek mythology.After being told by an oracle she would be ruined if she were to marry, Atalanta set up a contest to win her hand in marriage....
and was killed by Meleager

Meleager

In Greek mythology, Meleager was the son of Althaea and Oeneus and, according to some accounts father of Parthenopeus and Polydora. His story has similarities with the Scandinavian Norna-Gests ??ttr....
.

her Eurypylus was a Thessalonian

Thessaly

Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
king, son of Euaemon. He led the Thessalians during the Trojan war

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
being a former suitor of Helen

Helen

In Greek mythology, Helen , better known as Helen of Sparta later Helen of Troy, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda , wife of King Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor and Pollux, Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra....
. He led one of the larger contingents of ships, 40.

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Son of Thestius

One Eurypylus was a son of Thestius

Thestius

Calydonian Boar

Atalanta

Meleager

Son of Euaemon

Another Eurypylus was a Thessalonian

Thessaly

Trojan War

Helen

Ancient Greece

The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
heroes such as Idomeneus

Idomeneus

In Greek mythology, Idomeneus was a Crete warrior, father of Orsilochus, son of Deucalion , grandson of Minos and king of Crete. He led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War and was also one of Helen's suitors....
, Diomedes

Diomedes

Diomedes or Diomed is a hero in Greek mythology, mostly known for his participation in the Trojan War. He was born to Tydeus and Deipyle and later became King of Argos, succeeding his grandfather, Adrastus....
, Telamonian Aias, etc. In the Iliad
ILiad

The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display....
he was one of several to accept Hector

Hector

In Greek mythology, Hector , or Hektor, is a Troy prince and one of the greatest fighters in the Trojan War. He is the son of Priam and Hecuba, descendant of Dardanus, who lived under Mount Ida, and of Tros, the founder of Troy....
's challenge to single combat, but was eliminated in the drawing of lots. He went to the aid of Telemonian Aias when the latter was wounded and tired from hard fighting and was compelled to withdraw from combat. In defending Aias he killed Aspisaon but was wounded and put out of action from one of Paris

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
' arrows. This happened in the same book that all the other major Greeks were wounded and put out of action. When he withdrew from battle, his wounds were tended by Patroclus

Patroclus

In Greek mythology, as recorded in the Iliad by Homer, Patroclus, or Patroklos , son of Menoetius , was Achilles? beloved comrade and, according to some , his lover....
. While Patroclus was tending his wound Eurypylus convinced the former to enter into combat even if Achilles

Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
refused to join. He was also one of the Greeks to enter the Trojan Horse

Trojan Horse

The "Trojan Horse" refers to the stratagem that allowed the Greeks to finally enter the city of Troy during the Trojan War. In the best-known version of this Bronze Age story, after a fruitless 10-year siege of Troy, the Greeks built a huge figure of a horse, in which a select force of men hid....
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After the war, Eurypylus got a chest as part of his victory spoils. The chest was abandoned by Aeneas

Aeneas

This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
when he fled from Troy and then Cassandra

Cassandra

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy....
placed a curse on it to whichever Greek would open the chest. Inside the chest was an image of Dionysus

Dionysus

In classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos , is the God of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, among whom Greek mythology treated Dionysus as a late arrival....
, made by Hephaestus

Hephaestus

Hephaestus was a Greek god whose Roman equivalent was Vulcan . He was the god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculpture, metals, metallurgy, Fire and volcanoes....
and given to the Trojans by Zeus

Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
. When Eurypylus opened the chest he went mad. During a period of sanity he went to Delphi

Delphi

Delphi is an archaeology site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis. Delphi was the site of the Pythia, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, when it was a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python , a deity who lived there and protecte...
to seek a cure for his malady. The priestess told him to find a people making an unusual sacrifice and settle there. Eventually he came to Aroe (later Patrae), where he found people sacrificing a youth and a maiden to Artemis

Artemis

In Greek mythology, Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, child birth/virginity/fertility, the hunt and was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.....
, to propitiate the goddess for the crime of Comaetho

Comaetho

In Greek mythology, Comaetho was the daughter of Pterelaos. She was a Taphian princess who loved Amphitryon.The Taphians were at war with Thebes , led by Amphitryon....
and Melanippus

Melanippus

In Greek mythology, there were five people named Melanippus :#Son of Agrius, killed by Heracles.#Son of Perigune and Theseus.#Son of Astacus, defended Thebes in Seven Against Thebes....
, who had polluted her shrine. The people of the town recognised him as a leader an oracle had said would come to them and made them their king. After this Eurypylus regained his sanity and the people of Patrae no longer needed to make human sacrifices. His tomb is in the city, and after the events the people of the area sacrificed to him as a hero at the festival of Dionysus.

Son of Telephus

A third Eurypylus was son of Telephus

Telephus

A Greek mythology, Telephus or Telephos was one of the Heraclidae, the sons of Heracles, who were venerated as founders of cities. Telephos was by far the most famous of these heroes, and the various sites at which libations were offered to placate his spirit occasioned etiology of travels around the Greek mainland, in Magna Graecia a...
and Astyoche

Astyoche

The name Astyoche was attributed to three individuals in Greek mythology.*Daughter of Laomedon, wife of Telephus and mother of Eurypylus.*Daughter of Actor , mother of Ascalaphus with Ares....
. His mother bribed him with a golden vine to fight on the side of the Trojans

Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
during the end of the Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
in command of a group of Mysians

Mysians

Mysians were the inhabitants of Mysia, a region in northwestern Asia Minor....
. He fought valiantly and killed the Greek warriors Machaon

Machaon

Machaon may refer to:...
and Nireus

Nireus

In Greek mythology, Nireus was a name attributed to the following individuals:*Nireus was a son of Poseidon and Canace.*Nireus was a son of Aglaea and Charopus....
and was finally killed by Neoptolemus

Neoptolemus

In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus was the son of the warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamia . Achilles' mother foretold many years before Achilles birth that there would be a great war....
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Son of Poseidon

Another Eurypylus was king of the island of Cos. He was son of Poseidon

Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
and Astypalaea

Astypalaea

In Greek mythology, Astypalaea was the daughter of Agenor and Perimede and the sister of Europa . She was a lover of Poseidon who seduced her in the form of a goat and had two sons by him: Ancaeus, King of Samos Island, and Eurypylos, King of Kos....
, and father of Chalciope

Chalciope

Chalciope was a princess in Greek mythology, daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, sister of Medea and wife of Phrixus. Phrixus, son of Athamus and Nephele, along with his twin Helle , were hated by their stepmother, Ino....
. He was slain by Heracles when the latter, on his return from Troy, attacked the island, taking the city by night. Yet another Eurypylus was a son of Poseidon and Celaeno

Celaeno

In Greek mythology, Celaeno referred to several different beings.*Celaeno was a harpy whom Aeneas encountered at Strophades. She gave him prophecies of his coming journeys....
, and ruled over the Fortunate Islands. He had a brother named Lycus

Lycus

Lycus or Lykos...
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Son of Heracles

The last Eurypylus was a son of Heracles

Heracles

In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
and Eubote, daughter of Thespius

Thespius

Thespius was a legendary king of Thespiae, Boeotia. His life account is considered part of Greek mythology....
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