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  Part II. Chapter XI. Padraic Colum 1918. The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
Odysseus stood up, and gazed upon his wife who was standing amongst her wooers.
Eurymachus noted him and going to him, said, ‘Stranger, wouldst thou be my hireling?
So angry was Eurymachus at this speech that he would have struck Odysseus if Telemachus had not come amongst the wooers, saying, ‘That man must not be struck again in this hall.
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  Eurymachus - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Eurymachus was an Ithacan nobleman, one of the leading suitors of Penelope in The Odyssey.
"Eurymachus" also refers to one of the 180 Theban soldiers who were taken prisoner in the Theban siege of Plataea.
All of the Theban soldiers were killed after the Plataeans brought everyone living outside of their walls into the city after unrequited negotion with Thebes's nightly backup troops.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Eurymachus   (97 words)

  
 ACHILLES IN HEELS -- SYNOPSIS
Lycomedes takes both Patroclus and Eurymachus off into the palace, leaving Thetis alone with Phoenix who is now desperately wondering how the news can be broken to "Pyrrha".
Eurymachus is put off Diodeima -- and rather taken by his brief glimpse of "Pyrrha" who had left with Patroclus.
Eurymachus is seen arriving at Odysseus’ court in Ithaka on his way home.
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 The outbreak of the Archidamian War
Plataea had always been at variance with Thebes; and the latter, foreseeing that war was at hand, wished to surprise her old enemy in time of peace, before hostilities had actually broken out.
Be this as it may, upon the Thebans retiring from their territory without committing any injury, the Plataeans hastily got in whatever they had in the country and immediately put the men to death.
The prisoners were a 180 in number; Eurymachus, the person with whom the traitors had negotiated, being one.
www.livius.org /pb-pem/peloponnesian_war/war_t09.html   (1476 words)

  
 SparkNotes: The Odyssey: Books 21–22
Eurymachus tries to calm Odysseus down, insisting that Antinous was the only bad apple among them, but Odysseus announces that he will spare none of them.
Eurymachus then charges Odysseus, but he is cut down by another arrow.
Additionally, some of the deaths have a kind of Gothic humor to them, as suitors like Antinous and Eurymachus trip over their dinners.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/odyssey/section11.rhtml   (1132 words)

  
 Eurymachus
Penelope is the wife of the main character, the king of Ithaca Odysseus (also known as Ulysses in Roman mythology) and daughter of Icarius and his wife Periboea.
Eurymachus: Encyclopedia II - Odyssey - Plot summary
Odyssey - Book I. "Tell me, oh muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy." With the invocation of the muse Homer begins his epic, though the hero himself is still offstage.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 111 (v. 2)
88.) [L. (Eu/w/^xos), grandson of another Eurymachus and son of Leontiades, the Theban commander at Thermopylae, who.
Herodotus in his account of the father's conduct relates, that the son in after time was killed by the Plataeans, when at the head of four hundred men and occupying their city.
The number of men was by his account only a little more than three hundred, nor was Eury­machus the actual commander, but the enterprise had been negotiated by parties in Plataea through him, and the conduct of it would therefore no doubt be entrusted very much to him.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1219.html   (972 words)

  
 The Suitors - Arts Reviews - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au
L to R: Peisander (John Leary), Eurymachus (Simon Aylott) and Antonious (Patrick Bramall).
The three suitors of this new Australian comedy, loosely inspired by a subversive take on The Odyssey, are the adult version of naughty boys at the back of a senior high school class: mischief-makers, juvenile, sex-obsessed and capable of lowering the tone of any situation.
Antinous (Patrick Brammall), Peisander (John Leary) and Eurymachus (Simon Aylott) loiter in the home of the 20-years-absent Odysseus, competing for the attention of his regal wife, Penelope (Zoe Carides).
www.smh.com.au /news/arts-reviews/the-suitors/2006/01/12/1136956289622.html   (466 words)

  
 Homer Introduction to Homer The Odyssey An Overview   Book 1  The first book informs the reader of the ...
It also describes the insolence of the young nobles in Ithaca (led by Antinous and Eurymachus) who, in the absence of Odysseus, live off his wealth and woo his wife, Penelope.
After the invocation to the Muses, with which the Odyssey opens, a council of the gods is summoned, during which Zeus decides that Odysseus shall return home safely and Athena shows herself to be the champion of Odysseus.
Meantime, Eurymachus and Antinous decline to enter the contest.
www.columbia.edu /~kdc2101/ebz5/lithum/asemester/Odyssey_overview.html   (4246 words)

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