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 estee ...

composed an ode in celebration of his successes.

References

Herodotus, The Histories, Book Five, chapter 102.
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