EURYPYLUS

[Greek heroic] A king of Thessaly, and one the heroes during the siege of Troy. The son of Telephus and Astyoche, ally of the Trojans. He was killed by Neoptolemus (Odyssey XI, 520). The son of Thestius. He was killed by Meleager during the hunt of the Calydonian boar because he had insulted Atalanta.