Epeios
mythological figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
noble Epeios · son of Panopeus
in the texts
Iliad
Skilled boxer who boasts of his prowess and defeats Euryalos.
Presently Epeios came on and gave Euryalos a blow on the jaw as he was looking round;
As he spoke there stood up a champion both brave and great stature, a skillful boxer, Epeios, son of Panopeus.
They stood up one after the other and Epeios took the quoit, whirled it, and flung it from him, which set all the Achaeans laughing.
Odyssey
Craftsman credited with building the wooden horse with Athena's assistance.
Now, however, change your song and tell us of the construction [ kosmos] of the wooden horse which Epeios made with the assistance of Athena, and which Odysseus got by stratagem into the fort of Troy after freighting it with the men who afterwards sacked the city.
Moreover, when all the bravest of the Argives went inside the horse that Epeios had made, and it was left to me to settle when we should either open the door of our ambuscade, or close it, though all the other leaders and chief men among the Danaans were drying their eyes and quaking in every limb, I never once saw him turn pale nor wipe a tear from his cheek;