Eumelus

Scion son of Admetus and Alcestis; leader of the Pherae contingent of eleven ships at Troy and owner of the swiftest mares in the Achaean army, reared by Apollo. A suitor of Helen in the Hesiodic-Catalogue tradition. Scion-tier (one-eighth divine) through the maternal Pelias-Poseidon line.

Parentage

• father: AdmetusApollod. 1.9.10; Hom. Il. 2.713-714 (primary)
• mother: AlcestisApollod. 1.9.10; Hom. Il. 2.714-715 (primary)

Domains

• horsemanship
• war

Powers

• Peerless chariot-driving with the swiftest mares

Relations

• father: AdmetusApollod. 1.9.10; Hom. Il. 2.713-714 (primary)
• mother: AlcestisApollod. 1.9.10; Hom. Il. 2.714-715 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Hom. Il. 2.711-715, 2.763-767, 23.288-289, 23.375-565; Apollodorus 1.9.10; Hyg. Fab. 81 (suitor of Helen) (primary)
• parentage: Apollod. 1.9.10; Hom. Il. 2.713-715 (son of Admetus and Alcestis) (primary)