Eurytus, Erytus ( Ἔρυτος ), or Eurytos ( Εὔρυτος ) is the name of eleven characters in Greek mythology, and of at least one historical figure.

* Laothoe, daughter of Menetus, possible mother of the Argonauts Erytus ( Eurytus ) and Echion by Hermes.

The most prominent Dryope was the daughter of Dryops, king of Oeta (" oak-man ") or of Eurytus ( and hence half-sister to Iole ).

She was said to be mother of Lycus and Nycteus by Poseidon ; of Eurypylus ( or Eurytus ), King of Cyrene, and Lycaon, also by Poseidon ; and of Lycus and Chimaereus by Prometheus.

His children were Epicaste, Phyleus, Agamede ( who was the mother of Dictys by Poseidon ), Agasthenes, and Eurytus.

King Eurytus of Oechalia (, Oikhalíā ), Thessaly, was the son of Melaneus and either Stratonice or the eponymous heroine Oechalia.

Eurytus ' grandfather was Apollo, the archer-god, and was also a famed archer.

The god killed Eurytus for his presumption, and Eurytus ' bow was passed to Iphitus, who later gave the bow to his friend Odysseus.

* Eurytus was the father of Hippasus, one of the men who hunted the Calydonian Boar .< ref >

In Greek mythology, Iolë () was the daughter of Eurytus, king of the city Oechalia.

According to the brief epitome by the so-called Apollodorus, Eurytus had a beautiful young daughter named Iole who was eligible for marriage.

Iole was claimed by Heracles for a bride, but Eurytus refused her hand in marriage.

Eurytus was an expert archer and taught his sons his knowledge of the bow and arrow.

Eurytus was aware that Heracles had killed his previous wife, Megara, and their children.

Diodorus Siculus gives additional at this point that it was Heracles himself that drove off the mares of Eurytus in revenge.

He was still angry at Eurytus for not giving up Iole, the promised prize.

Heracles was now in control of an army and went about to kill Eurytus in revenge.

However, Autolycus was a source of some controversy in Herakles ' life, because Autolycus stole some cattle from Euboea and Eurytus, who accused Herakles of the deed and, upon his going mad about these accusations, Herakles killed them plus another one of Autolycus ' sons, Iphitus.

Her mother was either Tragasia, Cyanee, daughter of the river-god Meander, or Eidothea, daughter of King Eurytus of Caria.

Others state that Eurypylus was a king of Cyrene, and note that the brothers were also referred to as Eurytus and Lycaon.

In one of many Greek variations on the theme of penalty for " inadvertent " murder, for his murder of Iphitus, the great hero Heracles, whom the Romans identified as Hercules, was, by the command of the Delphic Oracle Xenoclea, remanded as a slave to Omphale for the period of a year, the compensation to be paid to Eurytus, who refused it.

* Iphitos was the son of Eurytus, king of Oechalia, and a descendant of Oxylus.

After defeating Eurytus in an archery contest, Heracles was accused of stealing Eurytus's cattle as revenge because he was not given the prize, Iole.

# Clytius ( son of Eurytus )

* A son of Eurytus, brother of Clytius and Molion.

# An Argonaut, son of Eurytus of Oechalia and Antiope, brother of Iphitos.

| 22503 Thalpius || || Thalpius, son of Eurytus, leader of the Elean flotilla against Troy and one of those aboard the wooden horse †

By the time of Euripides, the islands were identified with the Echinades: in Euripedes ' Iphigeneia at Aulis ( 405 BCE ), the chorus of women from Chalcis have spied the Hellenes ' fleet and seen Eurytus who " led the Taphian warriors with the white oar-blades, the subjects of Meges, son of Phyleus, who had left the isles of the Echinades, where sailors cannot land.

King Eurytus of Oechalia promised his daughter, Iole, to whoever could beat his sons in an archery contest.

Heracles won but Eurytus abandoned his promise.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses Theseus fights against and kills Eurytus, the " fiercest of all the fierce centaurs " at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia.

* Thalpius-Son of Eurytus.

* Eurytus: Slain by grandnephew Dionysus with his pine-cone tipped thyrsos.

A late legend also attributes Eurytus as the father of Dryope, by his first wife.

Eurytus has been noted by some as the one who taught Heracles the art of archery.

According to Homer, Eurytus became so proud of his archery skills that he challenged Apollo.

A more familiar version Eurytus ' death involves a feud with Heracles.

Eurytus promised the hand of his daughter Iole to whoever who could defeat him and his sons in an archery contest.

Heracles won the archery contest, but Eurytus reneged on his promise, fearing that Heracles would go mad and kill any children he had with Iole, just as he has slew the children he had with Megara.

Heracles left in anger, and soon after twelve of Eurytus ' mares were stolen.

Revenge-driven, Heracles sacked the city and killed Eurytus and his sons, then took Iole as his concubine.

* Eurytus and Cteatus were twin sons of Molione, by either Poseidon or Actor.

Iole with Heracles in the house of Eurytus, as depicted on the 7th century Eurytos column-crater, Louvre.