In Homeric tradition Eudoros is presented as a product of divine and mortal lineage: the son of the Olympian Hermes and the mortal Polymele. According to later summary tradition he was raised by Polymele's father Phylas, situating him within a heroic genealogy that links mortal households to the gods. In the Iliadic military catalogue of Book XVI he is named second among Achilles' five commanders and is given a fourteen-line encomium that marks him out as an established leader of the Myrmidons under Achilles' overall command.
Homer provides no detailed visual portrait of Eudoros; the surviving accounts emphasize attributes rather than physical particulars. The Iliadic summary notes that Homer devotes fourteen lines to him in Book XVI and praises his swiftness and martial competence — descriptions that imply an athletic, battle-ready warrior but do not supply clothing, facial features, height, or other specific corporeal detail.
The tradition attributes to Eudoros chiefly martial leadership and exceptional athletic ability. The Iliadic catalogue reports that he commanded ten penteconters (ships) and five hundred Myrmidons, indicating his role as a significant subordinate commander within Achilles' forces. He is described as "very fast, and a good fighter," and his parentage (son of Hermes and Polymele) places him in the Homeric category of demi-divine figures whose lineage explains heightened prowess; the supplied sources do not ascribe explicit supernatural powers beyond these Homeric indications of speed, fighting skill, and notable genealogy.
Weaknesses
- otherunspecified in tradition
Wards
None recorded.
Amphimedon
In Homer's Odyssey, Amphimedon (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιμέδων) is an Ithacan, son of Melaneus, one of the suitors of Penelope who fights in Odysseus's hall, is killed during the slaughter of the suitors, and (within the Homeric narrative) later appears among the dead in the Underworld to recount the events of that slaughter. The same name is also used in modern biological taxonomy for a genus of sponges; that referent is distinct.
Arnaeus (Irus)
Arnaeus, commonly called Irus in English translations, is a mortal beggar who appears in Book XVIII of Homer's Odyssey as a hanger‑on in the hall of Odysseus on Ithaca. He functions in the narrative as a social type and a foil for the disguised Odysseus, provoking a public fight that illustrates themes of hospitality, social disorder, and appearances versus reality.
Elpenor
Elpenor is a named human figure in the Homeric epic tradition (Odyssey) who dies accidentally on Circe’s island and later appears as a shade in Hades during Odysseus’ katabasis to plead for a proper cremation and burial. He functions in the poem as an example of neglecting funerary obligation and the moral duty of the living to care for the dead.
Eumaeus
Eumaeus is a mortal character of the Homeric Odyssey: the loyal swineherd and household attendant of Odysseus, raised in his master's household and notable for his hospitality, fidelity, and practical skill in animal husbandry during Odysseus's return to Ithaca.
Eurylochus
Eurylochus is a mortal seaman in Homer's Odyssey, serving as Odysseus' second-in-command and leader of contingents of crewmen. He is portrayed through actions and speech as a cautious but quarrelsome subordinate whose persuasion and dissent contribute to critical narrative catastrophes (notably the slaughter of Helios' cattle).
Halitherses
Halitherses (Ancient Greek: Ἁλιθέρσης) is an Ithacan seer and elder in the Homeric Odyssey cycle, named as the son of Mastor. He interprets signs from Zeus, pronounces their meaning publicly, and counsels restraint and deference to the gods; his warnings are often disregarded by the suitors and portions of the community.
Iamenus
Iamenus (Ancient Greek: Ἰαμενός) is a named Trojan warrior in Homer's Iliad (Book XII) who takes part in the cavalry charge against the Achaean wall and is recorded as slain there by the Greek warrior Leonteus. He is a minor mortal participant in the epic rather than a supernatural being.
Euboeus
Euboeus is not a folkloric supernatural being but a name attested in two distinct contexts in the supplied sources: (1) a Linnaean genus of Palaearctic darkling beetles (Euboeus Boieldieu, 1865) and (2) a fragmentary classical author, a comic/parodist poet (presumably Euboeus of Paros, fl. c. 359–336 BC) known from scant citations. No traditional myths, rituals, or cosmological roles attaching supernatural agency to the name are recorded in the provided material.
Euchenor
Euchenor (Greek: Εὐχήνωρ) is a personal name borne by multiple mortal figures in Greek mythic genealogies and epic tradition. The name appears for at least: a son of Aegyptus slain on his wedding night, a son (or grandson) of the seer Polyeidos who chose to die at Troy, a son of Aeolus of Lipara, and as the father of the king Echetus in some accounts. The name is also attested in modern reception (poetry, taxonomy, and an asteroid entry).
Eudaf Hen
Eudaf Hen (Eudaf "the Old") is a legendary dynastic figure in medieval Welsh and Breton literature, remembered as a king of the Britons and an ancestral founder used in royal and saintly genealogies. He appears in narrative sources (notably The Dream of Macsen Wledig and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia) and in various pedigrees where his identity organizes claims to rulership, descent, and regional foundation (including links to Brittany).
Eufydd fab Dôn
A minor figure in medieval Welsh mythic genealogies and bardic poetry, named among the children of the mother-goddess Dôn and remembered as a skilled practitioner of magic in the Book of Taliesin and the genealogical tract Bonedd yr Arwyr.
Euippe (daughter of Tyrimmas)
Euippe (Ancient Greek: Εὐίππη, Euíppē or Evippe, literally 'good mare') is a mortal woman in Greek mythic genealogies identified as a daughter of Tyrimmas, king of Dodona, who bore Odysseus a son, Euryalus, later mistakenly slain by his father. She functions in surviving sources as a genealogical link tying Odysseus into local dynastic traditions rather than as a supernatural figure.
Community Record
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