Son of Mecisteus and grandson of Talaus, Euryalus was the godlike warrior who sailed with Diomedes from Argos to Troy and fell fighting before the wall in Patroclus' aristeia.1
Apollodorus names him only as the son of Mecisteus who went to Troy, in the Biantid roll that runs from Bias through Talaus to the Theban and Trojan wars.2
Homer gives him stature. With Diomedes and Sthenelus, son of Capaneus, he leads eighty ships from Argos, Corinth, Cleonae, and the towns about; the poet calls him a godlike man, son of king Mecisteus, son of Talaus. At Patroclus' funeral games his father's older fame is recalled: Talaus had once come to Thebes for Oedipus' burial and defeated all the sons of Cadmus.3
He died in the counter-attack after Patroclus stormed the wall. Dolon, scouting for Hector, named him among the mightiest Argives; and when the Trojans drove the Greeks back, Euryalus was slain on the plain and Sthenelus, coming up at once, stripped the armour from his body.4
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