Eurypylus of Mysia
heroSon of Telephus who led a Mysian army to Troy as the last major reinforcement and was killed by Neoptolemus.
The Myth
His mother sold Troy's last hope for a golden vine — one of the most damning acts of greed in the Iliad cycle. Priam bribed Astyoche, sister of Telephus, with a golden vine made by Hephaestus to send her son Eurypylus to fight for Troy. He arrived late in the war and killed Machaon, the Greek army's irreplaceable surgeon and son of Asclepius. Only the young Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, could stop him. Their duel was one of the last great combats of the war. Eurypylus's story survives mainly through the Little Iliad and fragments, making him one of the war's most important yet least-known figures.
Parents
Telephus, Astyoche
Symbols
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