person
Eurybates
also: Εὐρυβάτης
A round-shouldered, dark-skinned, curly-haired herald whom the disguised Odysseus names as having accompanied the real Odysseus to Troy, in the tale he tells Penelope.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §1.318 Eurybates
One of Agamemnon's two heralds, sent with Talthybius in Book 1 to take Briseis from Achilles's hut.
- The Odyssey §19.235 Eurybates
A herald Odysseus names, in his tale to Penelope, as having traveled with the real Odysseus to Troy — a detail meant to lend the fiction credibility.