Eurytus
Role: mythic hero · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 15
Eurytus was the son of Melaneus. At the Isthmian games, he went from Elis with Cteatus as a spectator; Hercules shot them with arrows, accusing them of having fought against him in the battle with Augeas.
By Book 4, his remains were kept in a brass cinerary urn at the Carnasian grove. In Book 5, another Eurytus, son of Actor and Theræphone, was the father of Thalpius.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hercules shot Eurytus and Cteatus during the Isthmian games.(Book 2 · Chapter 15)
- Eurytus’s remains were preserved in a brass cinerary urn.(Book 4 · Chapter 33 · 📍 Carnasian grove)
- “the cinerary urn of brass found by the Argive General, in which the remains of Eurytus the son of Melaneus are kept.”
Book 2 · Chapter 15
- enemies with Hercules “At Cleonæ beside this temple is the tomb of Eurytus and Cteatus, who had gone from Elis to be spectators of the Isthmian games, and whom Hercules shot with arrows there, charging them with having fought against him in the battle with Augeas.”
- with Cteatus (They share a tomb.) “At Cleonæ beside this temple is the tomb of Eurytus and Cteatus, who had gone from Elis to be spectators of the Isthmian games.”
Book 3 · Chapter 18
- with Tyndareus (interaction) “of Tyndareus with Eurytus”
Book 4 · Chapter 3
- parent: Melaneus “Eurytus the son of Melaneus”
- with Sybotas (Sybotas established an annual sacrifice to Eurytus.) “Sybotas the son of Dotadas decreed that annually the king should sacrifice by the river Pamisus, and offer victims to Eurytus the son of Melaneus in Œchalia”
Book 4 · Chapter 33
- parent: Melaneus (Melaneus was Eurytus's father.) “the remains of Eurytus the son of Melaneus are kept”
Book 5 · Chapter 3
- child: Thalpius (Eurytus is stated to have had Thalpius by Theræphone.) “the other Eurytus had by Theræphone Thalpius”
- parent: Actor (Eurytus is identified as one of Actor's sons.) “For the sons of Actor married two sisters, the daughters of Dexamenus who was king at Olenus, and the one had by Theronice Amphimachus, and the other Eurytus had by Theræphone Thalpius.”
- married with Theræphone (The passage identifies Eurytus and Theræphone as the parents of Thalpius and places the two marriages together.) “For the sons of Actor married two sisters, the daughters of Dexamenus who was king at Olenus, and the one had by Theronice Amphimachus, and the other Eurytus had by Theræphone Thalpius.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.