Eumedes

Eumedes (Ancient Greek: Εὐμήδης) was a name attributed to seven individuals in Greek mythology.

• Eumedes (also Eumeles) was a famous herald among the Trojans. He was the father of Dolon and of five daughters.[1]
• Eumedes, son of Hippocoon, the king of Sparta. His tomb was located in the city.[2]
• Eumedes, priest of Athena. When the Heracleidae invaded, Eumedes was suspected of wishing to betray the Palladium to them. Being afraid, he took the Palladium and took it to be hill called Creion.[3]
• Eumedes, son of Heracles and Lyse, a daughter of Thespius and Megamede.[4]
• Eumedes, son of Melas. He, along with his brothers, were killed for plotting against Oeneus.[5]
• Eumedes, son of Dolon and a companion of Aeneas. He was killed by Turnus.[6]
• Eumedes, father of Acallaris who married Tros, king of Dardania.[7]

Notes

1. Homer, Iliad 10.313
2. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.14.6
3. Callimachus. Hymns, V. On the Bath of On the Baths of Pallas.
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.8
5. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.8.5
6. Virgil, Aeneid 12.346
7. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.62.2

References

• Callimachus, Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair ; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921. Internet Archive
• Callimachus, Works. A.W. Mair. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937–1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, The 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.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.