Eualcides ( grc, Ευαλκίδης) (d. 498 BCE) was a Greek athlete and military commander from
Eretria
Eretria (; el, Ερέτρια, , grc, Ἐρέτρια, , literally 'city of the rowers') is a town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf. It was an important Greek polis in the 6th and 5th centur ...
who was killed by the Persians during the
Battle of Ephesus.
He competed in the Olympics. The poet
Simonides of Ceos
Simonides of Ceos (; grc-gre, Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος; c. 556–468 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, born in Ioulis on Ceos. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of the nine lyric poets esteemed ...
composed an ode in celebration of his successes.
References
Herodotus, The Histories, Book Five, chapter 102.(Project Gutenberg)
Ancient Greeks killed in battle
Ancient Greek generals
5th-century BC Greek people
Ionian Revolt
498 BC deaths
Year of birth unknown
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