Eumelus ( Eúmēlos means "rich in sheep") was the name of:
Mythology
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Eumelus (Gadeirus), the younger twin brother of Atlas in Plato's myth of Atlantis,
[Plato, Critias 114a–b] and the son of Poseidon and Cleito, daughter of the autochthon Evenor and Leucippe.[Plato, Critias 113d ff.] His other brothers were: Ampheres and Euaemon, Mneseus and Autochthon, Elasippus and Mestor, and lastly, Azaes and Diaprepes.[Plato, Critias 114c] 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.[Plato, Critias 114d]
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Eumelus, son of Merops and father of Byssa, Meropis and Agron. The family offended Hermes and were transformed into birds.
[Antoninus Liberalis, 15]
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Eumelus, companion of Triptolemus. He had a son Antheias who tried to ride the chariot of Triptolemus but fell off and died. Eumelus was the first to settle in the land of Patras in Achaea and founded Antheia in memory of his son.
[Pausanias, 7.18.3]
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Eumelus, son of Eugnotus and father of Botres. He killed his son for having eaten the brains of a sheep that had been sacrificed before it had been put on the altar.
[Antoninus Liberalis, 18; Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.390]
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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.
[Scholia on Plato, Symposium, 208d citing Hellanicus] Eumelus was one of the "suitors of Helen" and thus, led Pherae and Iolcus in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks. Although one of the best Achaean charioteers, he was the fifth and last in the chariot races because of Athena's sabotage at Patroclus's funeral. Eumelus was also one of the Greeks in the Trojan Horse.
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Eumelus, also known as Eumeles or Eumedes, a herald and father of Dolon and five girls.
[Homer, Iliad 10.314 ff; Apollodorus, E.4.4]
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Eumelus, a companion of Aeneas. This is the man who brought the news that the fleet of the hero in Sicily was on fire
[Virgil, Aeneid 5.665]
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Eumelus, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Same along with other 22 wooers.
[Apollodorus, E.7.28] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.[Apollodorus, E.7.33]
History
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Eumelus of Corinth, an epic poet of the second half of the 8th century BC
Notes
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Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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Homer, Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available 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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
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Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Plato, Critias in Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available at the same website.
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Ovid, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859–1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
