Mortal · Character in Homer’s Odyssey
Eurylochus
The crew's wary lieutenant
Right to be afraid, wrong each time he acts on it.
Odysseus' kinsman by marriage and second-in-command. He alone hangs back at Circe's door and lives to report the crew turned to swine; on Thrinacia it is his speech that talks the starving men into slaughtering the Sun's cattle. He drowns with the rest when Zeus splits the ship.
Bonds
- Eurylochus companion of Odysseus — kinsman and second-in-command
- Eurylochus defies Odysseus — goads the crew to the cattle
Appears in
- Book X Aeolus, the Laestrigonians, and Circè
- Book XI Visit of Odysseus to the Land of the Dead
- Book XII The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis
Scenes
- Drawing Lots — Book X. Lots send Eurylochus forward in tears
- Circè’s Enchanted Halls — Book X. Eurylochus finds palace guarded by beasts
- Turned to Swine — Book X. Circè’s wine turns men to swine
- Eurylochus’s Report — Book X. Eurylochus alone escapes, reports fate
- Odysseus Vows to Go — Book X. Odysseus arms himself, ignores Eurylochus
- Eurylochus Balks Again — Book X. Eurylochus balks, Odysseus nearly kills him
- Welcomed by Circè — Book X. Circè bids crew shed grief
- Voyage and the Rite — Book XI. Odysseus reaches Ocean, summons the dead
- Bound Against the Mast — Book XII. Bound Odysseus strains as crew rows
- Eurylochus’s Revolt — Book XII. Eurylochus accuses, swears to spare herds
- Slaughter of the Oxen — Book XII. Eurylochus leads slaughter, Odysseus prays