Editing Eumelus (section)

== Mythology ==

*Eumelus ([[Gadeirus]]), the younger twin brother of [[Atlas (Greek myth)|Atlas]] in [[Plato]]'s myth of [[Atlantis]],<ref>[[Plato]], ''[[Critias (dialogue)|Critias]]'' 114a&ndash;b</ref> and the son of [[Poseidon]] and [[Cleito (mythology)|Cleito]], daughter of the [[Autochthon (ancient Greece)|autochthon]] [[Evenor]] and [[Leucippe]].<ref>Plato, ''Critias'' 113d ff.</ref> His other brothers were: [[Ampheres]] and [[Euaemon|Evaemon]], [[Mneseus (mythology)|Mneseus]] and [[Autochthon (Atlantis)|Autochthon]], [[Elasippus (mythology)|Elasippus]] and [[Mestor]], and lastly, [[Azaes]] and [[Diaprepes (mythology)|Diaprepes]].<ref>Plato, ''Critias'' 114c</ref> Eumelus, along with his nine siblings, became the heads of ten royal houses, each ruling a tenth portion of the island, according to a partition made by Poseidon himself, but all subject to the supreme dynasty of Atlas who was the eldest of the ten.<ref>Plato, ''Critias'' 114d</ref>
*Eumelus, son of [[Merops (mythology)|Merops]] and father of [[Byssa (mythology)|Byssa]], [[Meropis (mythology)|Meropis]] and [[Agron (mythology)|Agron]]. The family offended [[Hermes]] and were transformed into birds.<ref>[[Antoninus Liberalis]], [https://topostext.org/work/216#15 15]</ref>
*Eumelus, companion of [[Triptolemus]]. He had a son [[Antheias]] who tried to ride the chariot of Triptolemus but fell off and died. Eumelus was the first to settle in the land of [[Patras|Patrae]] in [[Achaea]] and founded Antheia in memory of his son.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.18.3 7.18.3]</ref>
*Eumelus, son of [[Eugnotus]] and father of [[Botres]]. He killed his son for having eaten the brains of a sheep that had been sacrificed before it had been put on the altar.<ref>Antoninus Liberalis, [https://topostext.org/work/216#18 18]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 7.390</ref>
*Eumelus, succeeded his father [[Admetus]] as the King of [[Pherae]], and his mother was [[Alcestis]], daughter of King [[Pelias]] of [[Iolcus]]. Eumelus married [[Iphthime]], daughter of [[Icarius (Spartan)|Icarius]] of [[Sparta]], and possibly by her, became the father of [[Zeuxippus (mythology)|Zeuxippus]].<ref>[[Scholia]] on [[Plato]], ''[[Symposium (Plato)|Symposium]]'', 208d citing [[Hellanicus of Lesbos|Hellanicus]]</ref> Eumelus was one of the "suitors of [[Helen of Troy|Helen]]" and thus, led Pherae and [[Iolcus]] in the [[Trojan War]] on the side of the Greeks. Although one of the best Achaean charioteers, he was the fifth and last in the chariot races because of Athena's sabotage at [[Patroclus]]'s funeral. Eumelus was also one of the Greeks in the [[Trojan Horse]].
* Eumelus, also known as [[Eumeles]] or [[Eumedes]],  a herald and father of [[Dolon (mythology)|Dolon]] and five girls.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 10.314 ff; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], E.4.4</ref>
*Eumelus, a companion of [[Aeneas]]. This is the man who brought the news that the fleet of the hero in [[Sicily]] was on fire<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' 5.665</ref>
*Eumelus, one of the [[Suitors of Penelope|Suitors]] of [[Penelope]] who came from [[Same (Homer)|Same]] along with other 22 wooers.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], E.7.28</ref> He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by [[Odysseus]] with the aid of [[Eumaeus]], [[Philoetius (Odyssey)|Philoetius]], and [[Telemachus]].<ref name=":1">[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], E.7.33</ref>