Eumolpus · Atlas

in the texts

The Funeral SpeechClassical · Greek

Leader of an invading host driven out of Attica and the rest of Greece by the Athenians' ancestors.

They so prevailed over the invading host of the Amazons as to expel them beyond the Phasis, and the host of Eumolpus and of many another foeman they drove not only out of their own land but also from the lands of all the other Greeks—invaders whom all those dwelling on our front to the westward neither withstood nor possessed the power to halt.

the funeral speech ¶

PhoenissaeClassical · Greek

Legendary enemy of Athens whose war against the Erechtheidae Teiresias reports having just witnessed.

they too were at war, fighting with Eumolpus.

phoenissae ¶

PanathenaicusClassical · Greek

A mythic leader of Thracians who challenges Erechtheus for Athens.

For our country was invaded by the Thracians, led by Eumolpus, son of Poseidon, who disputed the possession of Athens with Erechtheus, alleging, that Poseidon had appropriated the city before Athena;

panathenaicus ¶

PanegyricusClassical · Greek

Legendary leader of the Thracians, son of Poseidon, who invades Attica and is defeated by Athens's forebears.

For while Hellas was still insignificant, our territory was invaded by the Thracians, led by Eumolpus, son of Poseidon, and by the Scythians, led by the Amazons, the daughters of Ares—not at the same time, but during the period when both races were trying to extend their dominion over Europe;

panegyricus ¶

Against LeocratesClassical · Greek

Mythical son of Poseidon and Chione who invaded Attica with the Thracians during the reign of Erechtheus.

Eumolpus and his slavish Thracian train

against leocrates ¶

The tradition is that Eumolpus, the son of Poseidon and Chione, came with the Thracians to claim this country during the reign of Erechtheus who was married to Praxithea, the daughter of Cephisus.

against leocrates ¶