Eumelus

Eumelus /juːˈmiːləs/ (Ancient Greek: Εὔμηλος Eúmēlos means "rich in sheep") was the name of:

Mythology

Eumelus, succeeded his father Admetus as the King of Pherae, and his mother was Alcestis, daughter of King Pelias of Iolcus. Eumelus married Iphthime, daughter of Icarius of Sparta, and possibly by her, became the father of Zeuxippus.[1] Eumelus was one of the "suitors of Helen" and thus, led Pherae and Iolcus in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks. He was the fifth and last in the chariot races at Patroclus's funeral. Eumelus was also one of the Greeks in the Trojan Horse.
Eumelus, companion of Triptolemus. He had a son Antheias who tried to ride the chariot of Triptolemus but fell off and died.
Eumelus, son of Eugnotus and father of Botres
Eumelus, one of the suitors of Penelope
Eumelus, son of Merops and father of Byssa, Meropis and Agron. The family offended Hermes and were transformed into birds.
Eumelus, a companion of Aeneas
Eumelus (Gadeirus), the younger twin brother of Atlas in Plato's myth of Atlantis,[2] and the son of Poseidon and Cleito, daughter of the autochthon Evenor and Leucippe.[3] His other brothers were: Ampheres and Evaemon, Mneseus and Autochthon, Elasippus and Mestor, and lastly, Azaes and Diaprepes.[4] Eumelus, along with his nine siblings, became the heads of ten royal houses, each ruling a tenth portion of the island, according to a partition made by Poseidon himself, but all subject to the supreme dynasty of Atlas who was the eldest of the ten.[5]

History

Eumelus of Corinth, an epic poet of the second half of the 8th century BC

References

Scholia on Plato, Symposium, 208d, citing Hellanicus
Plato, Critias 114a-b
Plato, Critias 113d ff.
Plato, Critias 114c
Plato, Critias 114d

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