In Greek mythology, Eumedes (Ancient Greek: Εὐμήδης) was a godlike herald of Troy and the father of Dolon, the night-spy of Iliad Book 10. When Odysseus and Diomedes caught Dolon on the plain, the spy begged for life and ransom by naming his father's store of gold, bronze, and iron in the strong-built city.
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I.Herald of Troy
Homer calls Eumedes a godlike herald and makes him the father of Dolon, swift of foot — the only brother among five sisters. The Doloneia episode turns on Dolon's wealth and parentage: captured while spying for Hector, he cried that his father in Troy had store of gold and bronze and iron, and would pay a great ransom if he learned his son still lived among the ships.
Odysseus promised mercy for information; Dolon confessed Hector's offer of Achilles' horses and mapped the Trojan and allied camps, including the newly arrived Thracians under Rhesus. Diomedes then beheaded him. Virgil later recalls a grandson also named Eumedes, son of Dolon, who dies in Italy under Aeneas.
II.Homonyms
This atlas entry (eumedes-herald) is the Trojan herald, father of Dolon. Distinct from Eumedes son of Melas, one of the victims in the Calydonian feud between Tydeus and the sons of Melas (Apollodorus), and from Eumelus of Pherae (eumelus-pherae), whose name is sometimes confused in catalogues.