Eurypylus son of Telephus

Also known as: Telephus' seed / Telephus' son / king Eurypylus · Family: The Trojans · Role: warrior · First appears: Book VI · Part 1

A hind fostered Eurypylus as an infant, and he was the son of Telephus and Astyoche, making him kin to Paris and Hector. In Book VI, he came to Troy with a great host from the Caicus region; Paris welcomed him, and Trojans and his men feasted together by the city wall. He vowed, “I swear to turn from fight Never, except in victory or death,” then chose leaders including Aeneas, Polydamas, Pammon, Deiphobus, and Aethicus to lead the Trojans into battle.

In Book VI–Book VI, Eurypylus killed Nireus and, after both were wounded, Machaon, driving many Argives toward their ships. He turned on the Atreus’ sons and Ajax son of Oileus, but Idomeneus struck his arm with a stone and knocked away his spear; Eurypylus nevertheless killed Bucolion, Nesus, Chromion, and Antiphus (Achaean), before withdrawing with the Trojans to camp near Simois. In Book VII he killed Peneleos and drove the Argives behind the ships’ rampart, then agreed to a two-day truce for the dead to be burned before returning to battle.

In Book VII, Odysseus, Diomedes, Leonteus, and Neoptolemus drove Eurypylus and his men from the wall. In Book VIII, he killed Eurytus and Menoetius, while his spear missed Antiphus (Trojan) and killed Meilanion; Antiphus escaped into his comrades. In Book VIII, Neoptolemus killed Eurypylus with a spear thrust through the throat.