Euryalus (/jʊəˈraɪ.ələs/;Ancient Greek:Εὐρύαλος,romanized: Eurýalos,lit. 'broad') refers to theEuryalus fortress, the main citadel ofAncient Syracuse, and to several different characters fromGreek mythology and classical literature:

• Euryalus, named on sixth and fifth century BC pottery as being one of theGiants who fought theOlympian gods in theGigantomachy.^[1]
• Euryalus, a suitor ofHippodamia who, like all the suitors beforePelops, was killed byOenomaus.^[2]
• Euryalus, one of the eight sons ofMelas, who plotted against their uncleOeneus and were slain byTydeus.^[3]
• Euryalus, theArgive son ofMecisteus^[4] andAstyoche^[5] and one of theArgonauts.^[4] He attacked the city ofThebes as one of theEpigoni, who took the city and avenged the deaths of their fathers, who had also attempted to invade Thebes. InHomer'sIliad, he fought in theTrojan War, where he was brother-in-arms ofDiomedes, and one of the Greeks to enter theTrojan Horse. He lost the boxing match toEpeius at the funeral games forPatroclus.^[6][7] He is mentioned byHyginus, who gives his parents as Pallas andDiomede.^[8]
• Euryalus (or Agrolas), brother and fellow builder ofHyperbius theAthenian.^[9]
• Euryalus was the name of a son ofEuippe andOdysseus, who was mistakenly slain by his father for plotting against his father.^[10]
• Euryalus, son ofNaubolus, one of thePhaeacians encountered by Odysseus in theOdyssey.^[11]
• Euryalus, one of theSuitors ofPenelope who came fromDulichium along with other 56 wooers.^[12] Euryalus, with the other suitors, was slain byOdysseus with the aid ofEumaeus,Philoetius, andTelemachus.^[13]
• Euryalus, also one of the Suitors of Penelope fromZacynthus with other 43 wooers.^[14] He suffered the same fate as his above namesake.^[13]
• In theAeneid byVirgil,Nisus and Euryalus are ideal friends and lovers,^[15] who died during a raid on theRutulians.^[6][16]
• Euryalus, a surname ofApollo.^[17]

• Hyalophora euryalus, the ceanothus silkmoth, a species of moth of the family Saturniidae
• Protambulyx euryalus, a species of moth of the family Sphingidae

• Apollodorus,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.ISBN 978-0674995796.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN 978-0198145318.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN 0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pliny the Elder,The Natural History. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pliny the Elder,Naturalis Historia. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro,Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro,Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Tzetzes, John,Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4

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