Eurypylus

Family: Trojans · First appears: The Little Iliad

In the Little Iliad, Eurypylus, son of Telephus, arrives to aid the Trojans and shows his prowess. He kills Machaon, but is killed by Neoptolemus.

In Part 2 of The Contest of Homer and Hesiod, Eurypylus is named as a son of Mecisteus, sprung from Talaus, and one of three leaders accompanying Diomedes at Argos.

Relationship record

Life events

• Neoptolemus kills Eurypylus.(The Little Iliad)
  • With: Neoptolemus
  • “Eurypylus the son of Telephus arrives to aid the Trojans, shows his prowess and is killed by Neoptolemus.”
• Eurypylus kills Machaon.(The Little Iliad)
  • With: Machaon
  • “The writer of the epic Little Iliad says that Machaon was killed by Eurypylus, the son of Telephus.”
• The Argives rewarded Homer with gifts and a statue, and decreed recurring sacrifices to him and a five-yearly sacrifice to Chios.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2 · 📍 Argos)
  • With: Homer Diomedes Tydeus Oeneus Sthenelus Capaneus Mecisteus Talaus
  • “This praise of their race by the most famous of all poets so exceedingly delighted the leading Argives, that they rewarded him with costly gifts and set up a brazen statue to him, decreeing that sacrifice should be offered to Homer daily, monthly, and yearly; and that another sacrifice should be sent to Chios every five years.”

The Little Iliad

• parent: Telephus “Eurypylus the son of Telephus arrives to aid the Trojans, shows his prowess and is killed by Neoptolemus.”

The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2

• parent: Mecisteus “and with these two there went a third leader, Eurypylus, a godlike man, son of the lord Mecisteus, sprung of Talaus; but strong-voiced Diomedes was their chief leader.”

Also listed in Trojans — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.