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  Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 113 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A son of Poseidon and Astypalaea, was king of Cos, and was killed by Heracles who on his re­turn from Troy landed in Cos, and being taken for a pirate, was attacked by its inhabitants.
Eurypylus was induced by the presents which Priam sent to his mother or wife, to assist the Trojans against the Greeks.
Eurypylus killed Machaon, but was himself slain by Neoptolemus.
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Swiftly Eurypylus plucked the lance of death Out of the wound, and vaunting cried aloud: "Wretch, wisdom was not bound up in thine heart, That thou, a weakling, didst come forth to fight A mightier.
Now when Eurypylus the battle-stay Marked how the ranks of Troy gave back from fight, He turned him from the host that he had chased Even to the ships, and rushed with eagle-swoop On Atreus' strong sons and Oileus' seed Stout-hearted, who was passing fleet of foot And in fight peerless.
Eurypylus' henchman smote Echemmon, Thoas' friend, amidst the fray 640 Beneath the shoulder: nigh his heart the spear Passed bitter-biting: o'er his limbs brake out Mingled with blood cold sweat of agony.
www.imperialcoins.com /eBooks/Troy/Troy06.txt   (4618 words)

  
 OMACL: The Fall of Troy: Book VII
Eurypylus there, in dauntless spirit like The War-god, with mad-raging spear and hands Resistless, smote down hosts of foes: the earth 110 Was clogged with dead men slain on either side.
Even now Eurypylus' hands To earth were like to dash it and destroy; 470 But the quick eyes of Tydeus' strong son marked How rained the darts and stones on that long wall.
There they found Eurypylus mighty of heart and all his men Scaling a tower, exultant in the hope Of tearing down the walls, of slaughtering The Argives in one holocaust.
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 TROJAN LEADERS, Greek Mythology Link.
It is uncertain whether the ninth dynasty is that of the island of Lesbos, which Achilles sacked, or that of the Mysian Eurypylus 6, son of Telephus, son of Heracles 1.
Eurypylus 6 was killed by Neoptolemus [see also Map of Greece].
Eurypylus 6 is son of Telephus, son of Heracles 1 and Auge 2, the daughter of Aleus, son of Aphidas 1, son of Arcas 1, son of Zeus and Callisto.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/TROJANLEADERS.html   (1465 words)

  
 The Wrath of Heaven
Eurypylus was remembered in the Iliad, when Patroclus, companion of Achilles, attended to his wound.
It was the news of Eurypylus that made Patroclus to fight in Achilles' place (see the Iliad about Patroclus' death).
Eurypylus was one of the leaders in the Wooden Horse, and he survived the war, but never returned home.
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 Schulers Books (Iliad - 33/73)
When he had got as far as the ships of Ulysses, where was their place of assembly and court of justice, with their altars dedicated to the gods, Eurypylus son of Euaemon, met him, wounded in the thigh with an arrow, and limping out of the fight.
SO THE son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypylus within the tent, but the Argives and Trojans still fought desperately, nor were the trench and the high wall above it, to keep the Trojans in check longer.
They had built it to protect their ships, and had dug the trench all round it that it might safeguard both the ships and the rich spoils which they had taken, but they had not offered hecatombs to the gods.
www.schulers.com /books/poetry/Iliad/Iliad33.htm   (1438 words)

  
 Cassandra, Greek Mythology Link.
When the victors divided the spoils, Eurypylus 1, one of the ACHAEAN LEADERS, got a chest with an image of Dionysus 2, wrought by Hephaestus, and once upon a time given as a gift by Zeus to Dardanus 1, ancestor of the Trojans.
Eurypylus 1's ships were then carried by the wind to the sea off Aroe (Patrae), where he saw a young man and a maiden about to be sacrificed.
Eurypylus 1 then understood the oracle, and the locals, suspecting that there was a god inside the chest, recalled the oracle they had themselves received concerning a king whom they had never seen before.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Cassandra.html   (1543 words)

  
 GTP
The daughter of Eurypylus, Chalciope, became mother of Thessalus by Heracles.
Eurypylus, a son of Poseidon and Astypalaea, was king of Cos, and was killed by Heracles who on his return from Troy landed in Cos, and being taken for a pirate, was attacked by its inhabitants.
Chalciope, a daughter of king Eurypylus in the island of Cos, and mother of Thessalus (Hom.
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 Tales of Troy - Chapter 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With a heavy heart, then, Priam sent the golden vine, but Eurypylus was glad when he saw it, and bade all his men arm, and harness the horses to the chariots, and glad were the Trojans when the long line of the new army wound along the road and into the town.
Eurypylus desired to slay Agamemnon and Menelaus, and end the war, but, as the spears of the Scots encompassed King James at Flodden Field till he ran forward, and fell within a lance's length of the English general, so the men of Crete and Pylos guarded the two princes with their spears.
But their hope was not to be fulfilled, for though next day Eurypylus met Neoptolemus in the battle, and was slain by him, when the Greeks chased the Trojans into their city so great a storm of lightning and thunder and rain fell upon them that they retreated again to their camp.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/fantasy/TalesofTroy/chap9.html   (5585 words)

  
 Homerica: The Little Iliad (Fragments)
Eurypylus the son of Telephus arrives to aid the Trojans, shows his prowess and is killed by Neoptolemus.
The writer of the epic "Little Iliad" says that Machaon was killed by Eurypylus, the son of Telephus.
Lescheos says that Axion was the son of Priam and was slain by Eurypylus, the son of Euaemon.
www.sacred-texts.com /cla/homer/liliad.htm   (1223 words)

  
 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Iliad
Eurypylus tries to defend him, but is wounded.
Patroclus goes to Nestor, from whom he learns of the Achaeans' dire situation: Machaon, Agamemnon, Diomedes, Eurypylus, and Odysseus are all wounded.
When he runs into the wounded Eurypylus, he cannot help but tend to Eurypylus' wounds himself, postponing his meeting with Achilles.
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 HELL XX
Dante seems to think that Eurypylus participated in this divination, but in the second book of the Aeneid he is mentioned only as a soldier sent to the oracle for Apollo's advice—which was that the Greeks at Troy should return home.
Michael Scot was a Scottish philosopher, scientist, occultist and astrologer at the court of Frederick II at Palermo.
Virgil seems to be reminding Dante that the previous night, when he was miserable in the dark, savage wood, the moon exempted him from her bad influence, which might have made him insane.
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 FREE MonkeyNotes Study Guide Summary-The Divine Comedy:The Inferno by Dante Alighieri(Dante's Inferno)-CANTO XX ...
Eurypylus is one of the shades pointed out to the pilgrim by his guide.
During the Trojan Wars, the Greek anger Eurypylus is asked to foretell an auspicious time to launch the Greek fleet from the port at Aulius.
Eurypylus is mentioned in Virgil's "Aeneid " where he is a soldier (not an augur) who is sent to the oracle to find out from Apollo the last time to sail from Troy.
www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDivine68.asp   (1690 words)

  
 Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang - The Gold Scales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Meanwhile, Hector was slaying the Greeks on the left of their battle, and Paris struck the Greek surgeon, Machaon, with an arrow; and Idomeneus bade Nestor put Machaon in his chariot and drive him to Nestor's hut, where his wound might be tended.
Meanwhile, Hector sped to the centre of the line, where Aias was slaying the Trojans; but Eurypylus, a Greek chief, was wounded by an arrow from the bow of Paris, and his friends guarded him with their shields and spears.
So Patroclus ran off to Achilles; but, on his way, he met the wounded Eurypylus, and he took him to his hut and cut the arrow out of his thigh with a knife, and washed the wound with warm water, and rubbed over it a bitter root to take the pain away.
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 OMACL: The Fall of Troy: Book VI
BOOK VI How came for the helping of Troy Eurypylus, Hercules' grandson.
Rose Dawn from Ocean and Tithonus' bed, And climbed the steeps of heaven, scattering round Flushed flakes of splendour; laughed all earth and air.
680 Eurypylus hath slain Bucolion, Nesus, and Chromion and Antiphus; Twain in Mycenae dwelt, a goodly land; In Lacedaemon twain.
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 Jaws   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
BOOK XII The Trojans and their allies break the wall, led on by Hector.
SO THE son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypylus desperately, nor were the trench and the high wall above it, to their ships, and had dug the trench all round it that it might taken, but they had not offered hecatombs to the gods.
Neptune himself, trident in foundations of beams and stones which the Achaeans had laid with Hellespont, and then when he had swept the wall away he spread a he turned the rivers back into their old courses.
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 Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 230   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The daughter of Eurypylus, ChalciOpe, became mother of Thessalns by Heracles.
As-tyoche, bribed by her brother Priam with the present of a golden vine, persuaded Eurypylus to bring the last succour to the Trojans shortly before the fall of the city.
After performing deeds of bravery, he fell at the hand of Neopt816mus.
www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0233.html   (770 words)

  
 Telephus - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A Greek mythological figure, Telephus referred to two different people.
He was the husband of Astyoche and father of Eurypylus.
Telephus (#2) was featured in works by Euripides and Ennius among others.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Telephus   (269 words)

  
 Schulers Books (Iliad - 32/73)
Now when Eurypylus the brave son of Euaemon saw that Ajax was being overpowered by the rain of arrows, he went up to him and hurled his spear.
He struck Apisaon son of Phausius in the liver below the midriff, and laid him low.
He recks not of the dismay that reigns in our host; our most valiant chieftains lie disabled, brave Diomed, son of Tydeus, is wounded; so are Ulysses and Agamemnon; Eurypylus has been hit with an arrow in the thigh, and I have just been bringing this man from the field--he too wounded with an arrow.
www.schulers.com /books/poetry/Iliad/Iliad32.htm   (2054 words)

  
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THE SLAYING AND AVENGING OF PATROCLUS At this moment, when torches were blazing round the ships, and all seemed lost, Patroclus came out of the hut of Eurypylus, whose wound he had been tending, and he saw that the Greeks were in great danger, and ran weeping to Achilles.
But of all no man was more grieved than Ulysses, and he stood up and said: "Would that the sons of the Trojans had never awarded to me the arms of Achilles, for far rather would I have given them to Aias than that this loss should have befallen the whole army of the Greeks.
Men cannot live for ever, and such is the fortune of war." Thus the battle rang, and shone, and shifted, till few of the Greeks kept steadfast, except those with Menelaus and Agamemnon, for Diomede and Ulysses were far away upon the sea, bringing from Scyros the son of Achilles.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/9/7/1973/1973.txt   (21493 words)

  
 Meleager - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Toxeus and Plexippus (Althaea's brothers) grew enraged that the prize was given to a woman.
He also killed Iphicles and Eurypylus for insulting Atalanta.
Since Meleager had killed her two brothers, Althaea placed the brand back upon the fire, killing him.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Meleager   (234 words)

  
 VirtualTourist.com - FAIRYCHIMNEY's Kos Travel Page
Thus Antimachidon declared war on Phixioton which was ruled by King Eurypylus, son of Poseidon the god of the sea.
Since both Hercules and Eurypylus were sons of gods, they were quite evenly matched and Eurypylus even managed to badly wound Hercules in one particular battle.
The people of Antimachidon then proclaimed Halkonas as their new king and he ended the war by giving his sister's hand, Halkiopi, to Hercules in marriage.
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Your question was: > Great Oracle, please indulge me a minute to quote a bit of > text, (Pausanias Description of Greece 7.19.6 to be exact;) > > When Troy was captured, and the Greeks divided the spoils, > Eurypylus the son of Euaemon got a chest.
In it was an image of > Dionysus, the work, so they say, of Hephaestus,.
Eurypylus > opened the chest, saw the image, and forthwith on seeing it went > mad.
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 Myodocopid Abstract
Sixteen species in four families of myodocopine ostracodes were collected from a submarine escarpment on the SW edge of Exuma Sound at water depths of 62 m to 142 m.
Seven new species from this collection are described and illustrated: Vargula exuma, Eurypylus eagari, E. hapax, Eusarsiella ryanae, Rutiderma schroederi, Diasterope procax, and Synasterope browni.
Danielopolina kakuki, a new species of troglobitic (cave-limited) halocyprid ostracod in the family Thaumatocyprididae from Oven Rock Cave, Great Guana Cay, Great Bahama Bank, Bahamas, is described and illustrated.
www.tamug.edu /cavebiology/reprints/Abstract-118.html   (204 words)

  
 Homer, The Iliad: Book 11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
aimed at Eurypylus, then shot an arrow in his leg,
Eurypylus yelled this out as he lay wounded.
Wise Eurypylus then said in answer to Patroclus:
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 The Iliad by Homer: Chapter 15 (continued) - The Literature Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Iliad by Homer: Chapter 15 (continued) - The Literature Page
Now Patroclus, so long as the Achaeans and Trojans were fighting about the wall, but were not yet within it and at the ships, remained sitting in the tent of good Eurypylus, entertaining him with his conversation and spreading herbs over his wound to ease his pain.
When, however, he saw the Trojans swarming through the breach in the wall, while the Achaeans were clamouring and struck with panic, he cried aloud, and smote his two thighs with the flat of his hands.
www.literaturepage.com /read.php?titleid=theiliad&abspage=219&changesize=2   (384 words)

  
 Argonauts (Greek myth)
Purpose: The retrieval of the Golden Fleece with which would prove Jason’s worthiness to claim the throne of Iolcus (c.1250-1225 BC)
As Canthus and Mopsus tried to gather more food, a shepherd named Caphaurus--thinking Canthus was stealing his sheep--killed him and Mopsus died from snakebite from a serpent created a generation before by Medusa’s blood.
After proper burials, the Argonauts returned to the Argo where Eurypylus, King of Libya and a son of Poseidon, gave them a clod of dirt to lead their way to Iolcus.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/argonauts.htm   (5491 words)

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