Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Eurybates.
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Iliad
Homer
Book 1: Agamemnon's herald, sent with Talthybius to take Briseis from Achilles — the reluctant messenger of the quarrel that opens the poem.
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Odyssey
Homer
An Ithacan Eurybates attends Odysseus — round-shouldered, woolly-haired herald whom Odysseus honoured above the crew; ancient and modern readers often keep him beside the Achaean herald of the same name.
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Eurybates
Homeric herald-name: Agamemnon's envoy for Briseis and Odysseus' trusted attendant.