Eumedes

Eumedes (Ancient Greek: Εὐμήδης) was a name attributed to seven individuals in Greek mythology.

  • Eumedes, father of Acallaris who married Tros, king of Dardania.[1]
  • Eumedes, a Calydonian son of Melas. He, along with his brothers, were killed for plotting against Oeneus.[2]
  • Eumedes, son of Hippocoon, the king of Sparta. His tomb was located in the city.[3]
  • Eumedes, the Thespian son of Heracles and Lyse,[4] daughter of King Thespius of Thespiae.[5] Eumedes and his 49 half-brothers were born of Thespius' daughters who were impregnated by Heracles in one night,[6] for a week[7] or in the course of 50 days[8] while hunting for the Cithaeronian lion.[9] Later on, the hero sent a message to Thespius to keep seven of these sons and send three of them in Thebes while the remaining forty, joined by Iolaus, were dispatched to the island of Sardinia to found a colony.[10]
  • Eumedes, priest of Athena. When the Heracleidae invaded, Eumedes was suspected of wishing to betray the Palladium to them. Being afraid, he took the Palladium and took it to be hill called Creion.[11]
  • Eumedes (also Eumeles) a famous herald among the Trojans. He was the father of Dolon and of five daughters.[12]
  • Eumedes, son of Dolon and a companion of Aeneas. He was killed by Turnus.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.62.2
  2. ^ Apollodorus, 1.8.5
  3. ^ Pausanias, 3.14.6
  4. ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8
  5. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10
  6. ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
  7. ^ Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  8. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
  9. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9–10
  10. ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.6
  11. ^ Callimachus. Hymns, V. On the Bath of On the Baths of Pallas.
  12. ^ Homer, Iliad 10.313
  13. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 12.346

References

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  • Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Callimachus, Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair ; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921. Internet Archive
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  • Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
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  • Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937–1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
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  • Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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