Eurybates

Family: Achaeans · Role: messenger · First appears: BOOK I

Life events

• Achilles releases Briseis to Agamemnon’s heralds, despite her reluctance to leave.(BOOK I · 📍 the tents and ships of the Myrmidons)
  • With: Achilles Briseis Patroclus Talthybius
  • “Patroclus did as his dear comrade had bidden him. He brought Briseis from the tent and gave her over to the heralds, who took her with them to the ships of the Achaeans—and the woman was loth to go.”

BOOK I

• employer: Agamemnon “called his trusty messengers and squires Talthybius and Eurybates”

BOOK II

• employer: Ulysses “His servant Eurybates, a man of Ithaca, who waited on him, took charge of the cloak”

Also listed in Achaeans — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.