Euryalus, one of the eight sons of Melas, who plotted against their uncle Oeneus and were slain by Tydeus.[4]
Euryalus, the Argive son of Mecisteus and Astyoche[5] 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.[6][7] He is mentioned by Hyginus, who gives his parents as Pallas and Diomede.[8]
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