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  • Thetis bore and Chiron trained; him I saw upon the beach, racing in full armour along the shingle and straining every nerve to beat a team of four horses, as he sped round the track on foot; and Eumelus, the grandson of

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • Thetis bore and Chiron trained; him I saw upon the beach, racing in full armour along the shingle and straining every nerve to beat a team of four horses, as he sped round the track on foot; and Eumelus, the grandson of

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • Eumelus says that Aegaeon was the son of Earth and Sea and, having his dwelling in the sea, was an ally of the Titans.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Eumelus somewhere introduces Zeus dancing: he says — ‘In the midst of them danced the Father of men and gods.’

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • The poet of the “War of the Titans”, whether Eumelus of Corinth or Arctinus, writes thus in his second book: ‘Upon the shield were dumb fish afloat, with golden faces, swimming and sporting through the heavenly water.’

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • The eldest was Atlas, and him he made king of the centre island, while to his twin brother, Eumelus, or Gadeirus, he assigned that part of the country which was nearest the Straits.

    Critias 2006

  • To his twin brother, who was born after him, and obtained as his lot the extremity of the island towards the pillars of Heracles, facing the country which is now called the region of Gades in that part of the world, he gave the name which in the Hellenic language is Eumelus, in the language of the country which is named after him, Gadeirus.

    Critias 2006

  • And this is one of the many rules of decency that we have from Homer; for in his poem, when Achilles saw Menelaus and Antilochus contending about the second prize of the horse-race, fearing that their strife and fury would increase, he gave the prize to another, under pretence of comforting and honoring Eumelus, but indeed to take away the cause of their contention.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • And this is one of the many rules of decency that we have from Homer; for in his poem, when Achilles saw Menelaus and Antilochus contending about the second prize of the horse-race, fearing that their strife and fury would increase, he gave the prize to another, under pretence of comforting and honoring Eumelus, but indeed to take away the cause of their contention.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Antilochus 'protest that the prize awarded to Eumelus in the funeral games for Patroclus is actually his due

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968

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