Editing Eurybates

{{for|the asteroid with the same name|3548 Eurybates}}
In [[Greek mythology]], '''Eurybates''' ({{IPAc-en|j|ʊ|'|r|ɪ|b|ə|t|iː|z}}, [[Ancient Greek]]: Εὐρυβάτης) may refer to the same or different  herald(s) for the [[Greeks|Greek]] armies during [[Trojan War]]:

* Eurybates, from [[Homer's Ithaca|Ithaca]],  served as [[Odysseus]]'s squire and herald. He was described by Odysseus to Penelope as "round-shouldered, dark-skinned, and curly-haired". Odysseus is said to pay him greater regard than any other of his companions for his honesty and faithfulness.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D19%3Acard%3D241 19.246–9]</ref>
* Eurybates, a herald who was sent, along with [[Talthybius]], by [[Agamemnon]] to retrieve [[Briseis]] from [[Achilles]]' camp in ''Iliad'', I, but he might be a different person from Odysseus's herald mentioned in ''Iliad'', 2 ("Eurybates of Ithaca"), and in the [[Odyssey]].<ref>{{in lang|fr}} René Langumier, ''[https://www.persee.fr/doc/bude_0004-5527_1956_num_1_2_3737 Les hérauts de l'ambassade auprès d'Achille]'', Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé, n° 2, June 1956. p. 72-73.</ref>
[[File:Getty villa 400 (6571459327).jpg|thumb|Eurybates on a Roman mosaic with the Removal of Briseis, 2nd century]]

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== References ==

* [[Homer]], [[Odyssey|''The Odyssey'']] with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0136 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0135 Greek text available from the same website].

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