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Euryalus (or Agrolas), brother and fellow builder of Hyperbius the Athenian. [10] Euryalus was the name of a son of Euippe and Odysseus, who was mistakenly slain by his father for plotting against his father. [11] Euryalus, son of Naubolus, one of the Phaeacians encountered by Odysseus in the Odyssey. [12]
Nisus and Euryalus (1827) by Jean-Baptiste Roman (Louvre Museum) In Greek and Roman mythology, Nisus (Ancient Greek: Νῖσος, romanized: Nîsos) and Euryalus (/ j ʊəˈr aɪ. əl ə s /; Ancient Greek: Εὐρύαλος, romanized: Eurýalos, lit. 'broad') are a pair of friends serving under Aeneas in the Aeneid, the Augustan epic by ...
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 ...
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.
The name Euryalus is mentioned by Thucydides in the course of the first Athenian attack on the city. [1] Later in his account, after the reconquest of Epipolae from the Athenians by the Syracusans, a Syracusan garrison on the site is mentioned. [2] In light of this experience, the fortress was first established by Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse.
So readers looking up an unfamiliar word in a dictionary may find, on seeing the pronunciation respelling, that the word is in fact already known to them orally. By the same token, those who hear an unfamiliar spoken word may see several possible matches in a dictionary and must rely on the pronunciation respellings to find the correct match. [4]
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
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.