Euryalus
Euryalus refers to the Euryalus fortress, the main citadel of Ancient Syracuse, and to several different characters from Greek mythology and classical literature:
- Euryalus, named on sixth and fifth century BC pottery as being one the Giants who fought the Olympian gods in the Gigantomachy.
- Euryalus, a suitor of Hippodamia who, like all the suitors before Pelops, was killed by Oenomaus.
- Euryalus, one of the eight sons of Melas, who plotted against their uncle Oeneus and were slain by Tydeus.
- Euryalus was the son of Mecisteus and Astyoche and one of the Argonauts. He attacked the city of Thebes as one of the Epigoni, who took the city and avenged the deaths of their fathers, who had also attempted to invade Thebes. In Homer's Iliad, he fought in the Trojan War, where he was brother-in-arms of Diomedes, and one of the Greeks to enter the Trojan Horse. He lost the boxing match to Epeius at the funeral games for Patroclus. He is mentioned by Hyginus, who gives his parents as Pallas and Diomede.
- Euryalus, the name of two of Penelope's suitors, one of whom came from Zacynthus, and the other one from Dulichium.
- Euryalus was the name of a son of Euippe and Odysseus, who was mistakenly slain by his father.
- Euryalus, brother and fellow builder of Hyperbius the Athenian.
- Euryalus, son of Naubolus, one of the Phaeacians encountered by Odysseus in the Odyssey.
- In the Aeneid by Virgil, Nisus and Euryalus are ideal friends and lovers, who died during a raid on the Rutulians.
- Euryalus, a surname of Apollo.
