Eurytus

Family: Oechalia · Role: king · First appears: Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 1

Life events

• Heracles killed Eurytus and sacked Oechalia after attacking the city.(Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 2 · 📍 Oechalia)
  • With: Heracles
  • “He framed erelong A feud about some trifle, and set forth In arms against this damsel's fatherland (Where Eurytus, the herald said, was king) And slew the chief her father; yea, and sacked Their city.”
• Deianira learned that the captive woman was Iole, daughter of Eurytus, and Heracles’ new love.(Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 2)
  • With: Deianira Iole Heracles
  • “Called in her day of freedom Iolè, Eurytus' daughter,--of whose parentage, Forsooth as ignorant, he ne'er would speak.”

Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 1

• enemies with Heracles “In rich Euboea, besieging, as they tell, / The town of Eurytus, or offering siege.”
• child: Iole “when Heracles was returning from his last exploit of sacking Oechalia, in Euboea, he sent before him, by his herald Lichas, Iole, the king's daughter, whom he had espoused.”

Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 2

• child: Iole “Called in her day of freedom Iolè, / Eurytus' daughter,--of whose parentage, / Forsooth as ignorant, he ne'er would speak.”
• patron: Heracles “Because, having received him in his hall A guest of ancient days, he burst on him With outrage of loud voice and villanous mind,”

Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 4

• enemies with Heracles “When after sacking Eurytus' great city He marched in triumph with first-fruits of war,--”

Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 6

• with Iole (Iole is identified as Eurytus's maid.) “The maid of Eurytus thou knowest, I ween.”
• child: Iole “The maid of Eurytus thou knowest, I ween.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.