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Polybus

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Canonical name
Polybus
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None
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Character
Scope
Individual
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Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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Claims

4
·Direct

Polybus is Eurymachus’s father.

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Then Eurymachus, son of Polybus, answered
·Direct

Polybus is identified as Eurymachus’s father.

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Eurymachus, son of Polybus, was the first to speak
·Direct

Polybus is identified as Eurymachus’s father.

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she therefore set Eurymachus son of Polybus on to gibe at him
·Direct

Polybus is hit by Eumaeus’s spear.

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Then Ulysses and his men let drive into the crowd of suitors. Ulysses hit Eurydamas, Telemachus Amphimedon, and Eumaeus Polybus. After this the stockman hit Ctesippus in the breast

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Direct
Eurymachus, son of Polybus
·Direct
Eurymachus son of Polybus
·Reported
Eurymachus the son of Polybus
·Direct
Eurymachus, son of Polybus
·Direct
Eurymachus son of Polybus
·Direct
Polybus son of Polyctor bore the brunt of the fight upon the suitors’ side

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 30

Then Eurymachus, son of Polybus, answered, ‘It rests with heaven to decide who shall be chief among us, but you shall be master in your own house and over your own possessions; no one while there is a man in Ithaca shall do you violence nor rob you. And now, my good fellow, I want to know about this stranger. What country does he come from? Of what family is he, and where is his estate? Has he brought you news about the return of your father, or was he on business of his own? He seemed a well to do man, but he hurried off so suddenly that he was gone in a moment before we could get to know him.’