Eumelus
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
- A king of Patrae, Ov. M. 7, 390.—
- II A companion of Aeneas, Verg. A. 5, 665.
(Εὔηλος), a son of Admetus and Alcestis, who vent with eleven ships and warriors from Pherae, Boebe, Glaphyrae, and Iaolcus to Troy. He was distinguished for his excellent horses, which had once been under the care of Apollo, and with which Eumelus would have gained the prize at the funeral games of Patroclus, if his chariot had not been broken. He was married to Iphthima, the daughter of Iearius. (Hom. Il. 2.711, &100.764, 23.375, 536, Od. 4.798; Strab. ix. p.436.) There are three 'other mythological personages of this name. (Ant. Lib. 15, 18; Paus. 7.18.2.) [L.S]
(Εὔμηλος), one of the three sons of Parysades, King of Bosporus. After his father's death he engaged in a war for the crown with llis brothers Satyrus and Prytanis, who were successively killed in battle. Eumnelus reigned most prosperously for five years nd five months, B. C. 309-304. (Diod. 20.22-26; Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. pp. 282, 285.) [P.S]
(Εὔμηλος).
1. Of Corinth, the son of Amphilytus, a very ancient Epic poet, belonged, according to some, to the Epic cycle. His name, like Eucheir, Eugrammus, &c., is signifieant, referring to his skill in poetry. He was of the noble house of the Bacchiadae, and flourished about the 5th Olympiad, according to Eusebius (Chron. * A little lower, Eusebius places him again at Ol. 9, but the former date seems the more correct.), who makes him contemporary with Arctinus. (Comp. Cyril, c. Julian.i. p. 13; Clem. Al. Strom. i. p. 144.)
Those of the poems ascribed to him, which appear pretty certainly genuine, were genealogical and historical legends. To this class belonged his (Corinthian History (Paus. 2.1.1, 2.2, 3.8 Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. 1.148; Tzetz. Schol. ad Lytcophr. 1024, comp. 174, 480), his προσόδιον ἐς Δῆλον, from which some lines are quoted by Pausanias, who considered it the only genuine work of Eumelus (4.4.1, 33. §§ 2, 3, 5.19.2), and the Europia (Euseb. l. e. Clem. Al. Strom. i. p. 151; Schol. ad Hom. Il. ii. p. 121.) He also wrote Bougonia, a poem on bees, which the Greeks called βουγόναι and βουγενεῖς. (Euseb. l.c.; Varro. R. R. 2.5.5, ed. Schneid.) Some writers ascribed to him a Τιτανομαχια, which also was attributed to Arctinus. (Athen. 7.277d., comp. i. p. 22c.; Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. 1.1165.)
The cyclic poem on the return of the Greeks from Troy (νόστος) is ascribed to Eumelus by a Scholiast on Pindar (Pind. O. 13.31), who writes the name wrongly, Eumolpus. The lines quoted by this Scholiast are also given by Pausanias, under the name of Eumelus. (Vossius, de Hist. Graec. pp. 5, 6, ed. Westermann; Welcker, die Epische Cyclus, p. 274.)
2. A Peripatetic philosopher, who wrote περί τῆς ἀρχαίας κωμῳδίας. (Schol. MS. ad Aeschin. c. Timarch. § 39. 4.) Perhaps he is the same from whom Diogenes Laertius (5.5) quotes an account of the death of Aristotle. (Meineke, Hist Crit. Com. Graec. p. 8. ) [P.S]
(Εὔμηλος), a painter, whose productions were distinguished for their beauty. There was a Helen by him in the forum at Rome. He probably lived about A. D. 190. (Philostr. Imag. Prooem. p. 4; Vit. Soph. 2.5.) He is supposed to have been the teacher of Aristodemus, whose school was frequented by the elder Philostratus. [P.S]
(Εὔμηλος), a veterinary surgeon, of whom nothing is known except that he was a native of Thebes. (Hippiatr. p. 12.) He may perhaps have lived in the fourth or fifth century after Christ. Works Fragments on Veterinary Surgery
Some fragments. which are all that remain of his writings. Editions
These are to be found in the Collection of Writers on Veterinary Surgery, first published in Latin by J. Ruellius, Paris. 1530, fol., and in Greek by S. Grynaeus, Basil. 1537, 4to. [W.A.G]
(Εὔμηλος). (1) A son of Admetus, king of Pherae in Thessaly, by Alcestis, daughter of Pelias, and who married Iphthimé, the sister of Penelopé. He went to the Trojan War, and had the fleetest horses in the Grecian army. He distinguished himself in the funeral games of Patroclus (Il. ii. 714, 763 foll.).
(2) Son of Amphilytus and one of the Corinthian line termed Bacchiadae. He was the author of a history of Corinth in heroic verse (Pausan. ii. 1). Eumelus joined Archias when the latter went to found Syracuse.
- taught by Triptolemus to sow: Paus. 7.18.2
- Apollod. E.4.1
- suitor of Helen: Apollod. 3.10.7
- leader of the Pheraeans against Troy: Apollod. E.3.13
- victor in the chariot-race: Apollod. E.5.5
- Corinthian poet and historian: Paus. 2.1.1, Paus. 2.2.2, Paus. 2.3.10
- his hymn for the procession of Apollo at Delos: Paus. 4.4.1, Paus. 4.33.2, Paus. 5.19.10
- as to Callisto: Apollod. 3.8.1
- on the wife of Arcas: Apollod. 3.8.2
- as to Xenodamus, son of Menelaus: Apollod. 3.11.1
- Apollod. E.7.25