In Greek mythology, Eurypylus (Ancient Greek Εὐρύπυλος, "wide-gated") was a Thessalian king, son of Euaemon and Ops (or Deipyle / Deityche in variants), who led forty ships from Ormenius and the surrounding towns to Troy as a former suitor of Helen. In the Iliad he ranks among the foremost Achaean warriors, is wounded by Paris while defending Ajax, and is tended by Patroclus. After the war Pausanias gives him a cursed Dionysiac chest and a cult role at Patrae.
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I.Family and the Catalogue of Ships
Eurypylus was son of Euaemon; his mother is named Ops, or alternately Deipyle or Deityche. A rarer genealogy makes him son of Hyperochus and father of Ormenus. As a former suitor of Helen he was bound by the oath of Tyndareus and led the Thessalians who held Ormenius, Hypereia, Asterium, and Titanus — forty black ships in Homer's Catalogue.
II.At Troy
In the Iliad Eurypylus fights in the first rank of Greek heroes. He is among those who accept Hector's challenge to single combat but is eliminated when lots are drawn. When Ajax the Great is hard-pressed, Eurypylus comes to his aid, kills Apisaon, and is then wounded in the thigh by an arrow of Paris; Patroclus tends the wound as Nestor urges him to seek Achilles' return.
Homer and later summarizers credit him with further kills (Hypsenor, Melanthius, Axion among them). Quintus of Smyrna and Tryphiodorus place him among the Greeks inside the Trojan Horse. He survives the war.
III.The chest and Patrae
Pausanias relates that among Eurypylus' spoils was a chest containing an image of Dionysus made by Hephaestus. Opening it drove him mad. An oracle at Delphi told him to settle among a people making an unusual sacrifice; at Aroe (later Patrae) he found youths sacrificed to Artemis and brought a foreign Dionysiac cult that ended the rite. He was buried and honored as a hero there at the festival of Dionysus.
IV.Homonyms
This atlas entry (eurypylus-euaemonid) is the Thessalian son of Euaemon. Distinct from Eurypylus son of Telephus (eurypylus-telephus), the Mysian ally of Troy; from Eurypylus king of Cos, son of Poseidon (eurypylus-cos); and from several lesser namesakes (Thespiad, suitor, Temenid, and others).