Eumelus
mythological figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Eumelus the Corinthian · grandson of Pheres · my tender chick · the boy
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Stromata
Poet cited as both source for Solon and borrower from Hesiod.
And the things of Hesiod, Eumelus and Acusilaus the historiographers turned into prose and brought out as their own.
For when Eumelus had made, "Nine maidens of Mnemosyne and Olympian Zeus," Solon begins his elegy thus:
And Eumelus the Corinthian, being older, is said to have overlapped Archias, the founder of Syracuse.
Orations
Mythological figure whose horses are disputed in the Homeric chariot-race episode.
Only at the end he says that Ajax the Locrian watched too unbecomingly and reviled Idomeneus about the horses of Eumelus.
Alcestis
The young son of Admetus and Alcestis, who mourns his mother immediately after her death.
’tis I who call thee now, I thy tender chick, printing my kisses on thy lips.
for she is gone before, and now that thou art dead, my mother, our house is all undone.
Eumelus:
Iphigenia in Aulis
Grandson of Pheres, seen by the chorus driving a four-horse chariot team on the beach.
Achilles next, that nimble runner, swift on his feet as the wind, whom Thetis bore and Chiron trained, I saw upon the beach, racing in full armor along the shingle, and straining every nerve to beat a team of four horses, as he sped round the track on foot;