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Nisus was the son of Hyrtacus, [4] and was known for his hunting. The family cultivated the huntress-goddess who inhabited Mount Ida. [5] Euryalus, who was younger, has spent his entire life in a state of war and displacement. [6] He was trained as a fighter by his battle-hardened father, Opheltes, [7] of whom he speaks with pride. Opheltes ...
Euryalus, named on sixth and fifth century BC pottery as being one of the Giants who fought the Olympian gods in the Gigantomachy. [1] Euryalus, a suitor of Hippodamia who, like all the suitors before Pelops, was killed by Oenomaus. [2] Euryalus, one of the eight sons of Melas, who plotted against their uncle Oeneus and were slain by Tydeus. [3]
In the Odyssey, Homer gives him the epithet "the peer of murderous Ares". Next to Laodamas, he is said to be the most handsome of the Phaeacians, and is the best wrestler.. He convinces Laodamas to challenge Odysseus, then rebukes him when he refuses to participate, saying "No truly, stranger, nor do I think thee at all like one that is skilled in games, whereof there are many among men ...
Before writing his first love letter, Euryalus quotes Virgil in defence of his position: Amor vincit omnia et nos cedamus amori (translated: "Love conquers all; let us all yield to love!"). [ 1 ] The lovers were identified by some with Kaspar Schlick , the chancellor of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor , and a daughter of the elder Mariano Sozzini ...
According to Hesiod, and Apollodorus, Stheno and Euryale, along with Medusa, were daughters of the primordial sea-god Phorcys and the sea-monster Ceto, [5] while, according to Hyginus, they were daughters of "the Gorgon", an offspring of Typhon and Echidna, and Ceto.
Agamemnon, Talthybius and Epeius, relief from Samothrace, ca. 560 BC, Louvre. Epeius (/ ɪ ˈ p aɪ. ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἐπειός Epeiós) or Epeus was a mythological Greek soldier during the Trojan War or, in some accounts, one of the Achaean Leaders, at the head of a contingent of 30 ships from the islands of the Cyclades. [1]
Nisus of Nisus and Euryalus, son of Hyrtacus, friend of Euryalus, in Virgil's Aeneid; Nisos, a king of Megara; Nisus or Silenus, foster father of Dionysus; Nisus of Dulichium, son of Aretias, father of Amphinomus, in Book 18 of Homer's Odyssey
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