Eurymachus

The name Eurymachus or Eurymachos (/jʊˈrɪməkəs/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρύμαχος Eurúmakhos) is attributed to the following individuals:

Mythology

History

  • Eurymachus, one of the 180 Theban soldiers who were taken prisoner in the Theban siege of Plataea. All of the Theban soldiers were killed after the Plataeans brought everyone living outside of their walls into the city after unrequited negotiation with Thebes's nightly backup troops. Thucydides states that Eurymachus was "a man of great influence at Thebes," and that the Platean, Naucleides, arranged with him to bring in "a little over 300" Theban troops in the middle of the night, for a sneak attack. This event touched off the Peloponnesian War.

Astronomy

9818 Eurymachos, a minor planet named after the Achaean warrior

Notes

  1. ^ Köppen, Johann Heinrich Just; Heinrich, Karl Friedrich; Krause, Johann Christian Heinrich (1818). Erklärende Anmerkungen zu Homers Ilias. Vol. 2. pp. 72.
  2. ^ Eustathius on Homer, p. 933
  3. ^ Pausanias, 6.21.10
  4. ^ Pausanias, 10.27.3
  5. ^ Pausanias, 10.27.4
  6. ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100
  7. ^ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 61, Prologue 806–807, p. 219, 11.44–46. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
  8. ^ a b Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 219, 11.44–46. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
  9. ^ Homer, Iliad 11.59, 21.545 & 579
  10. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 134
  11. ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464
  12. ^ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 61, Prologue 806–807. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
  13. ^ Homer, Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53
  14. ^ Homer, Iliad 20.395
  15. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7; Pausanias, 10.27.3
  16. ^ Homer, Iliad 3.123
  17. ^ Homer, Iliad 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4
  18. ^ Homer, Iliad 15.516
  19. ^ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 283, 15.193. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
  20. ^ Homer, Iliad 4.87
  21. ^ a b Virgil, Aeneid 6.484
  22. ^ Homer, Iliad 11.59
  23. ^ Pausanias, 10.27.3; Quintus Smyrnaeus, 11.130 & 14.323
  24. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 11.60
  25. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 12.321
  26. ^ Homer, Odyssey 16.435–450

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