In Greek mythology, Eribotes (Ancient Greek: Ἐριβώτης or Ἐρυβώτης) was an Argonaut from Locrian Eleon, son of Teleon. Apollonius shows him tending the wounded Oileus; on the return voyage Hyginus says he was slain in Libya by the shepherd Cephalion while raiding flocks.
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I.Argonaut
Eribotes son of Teleon is counted among Jason's crew in Apollonius Rhodius (Argonautica 1.72) and Hyginus (Fabulae 14). Valerius Flaccus likewise includes him among the Argonauts. His home is Eleon in Locris or Boeotia, depending on the catalogue tradition.
II.Physician of the voyage
Eribotes appears to have had skills of a physician: in the Argonautica he attends on Oileus when the latter is wounded by a feather of a Stymphalian bird (Argonautica 2.1039). The episode is one of the few narrative moments that lift him out of the bare crew list.
III.Death in Libya
On the return trip Eribotes, along with Canthus, died in Libya. They were slain by the shepherd Cephalion (son of the nymph Tritonis and Amphithemis), whose flocks they were plundering — so Hyginus and the Apollonius tradition of the Libyan disasters.