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Polybus (Odyssey)

father of Eurymachus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7226176 ↗
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In Ancient Greek epic tradition recounted in Homer's Odyssey, Polybus (; Ancient Greek: Πόλυβος) was the father of a suitor, Eurymachus, who was killed by Odysseus once he returned from his 10-year journey following the Trojan War.

Mythology

Polybus was described as wise, contradictory to his foolish son.

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References

Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.

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“Polybus (Odyssey)” enters the record as father of Eurymachus. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Polybus, Odyssey and father can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Polybus (Odyssey)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.