Eurybates
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
The Histories
An Argive pentathlete who leads volunteer troops to aid Aegina against Athens and dies after killing three men in single combat.
Eurybates himself, their captain, fought in single combat and thus killed three men, but was slain by the fourth, Sophanes the son of Deceles.
For this cause the Argive state sent no one to aid them at their request, but about a thousand came voluntarily, led by a captain whose name was Eurybates, a man who practiced the pentathlon.
Iliad
One of Agamemnon's two heralds sent to take Briseis from Achilles.
But Agamemnon did not forget the threat that he had made Achilles, and called his trusty messengers and squires [ therapontes] Talthybios and Eurybates.
Odyssey
Odysseus's servant, described in detail by the disguised Odysseus as proof of his acquaintance with Odysseus.
His name was Eurybates, and Odysseus treated him with greater familiarity than he did any of the others, as being the most like-minded with himself.
History of the Peloponnesian War
One of three Corcyraean commanders who led the fleet of a hundred and ten ships against the Corinthians.
But the Corcyraeans, when they perceived them sailing up, manned a hundred and ten ships, which were commanded by Miciades, Aesimides, and Eurybates;