Eucles
(Εὐκλῆς).
1. Of Rhodes, a son of Callianax and Callipateira, the daughter of Diagoras, belonged to the family of the Eratidae or Diagoridae. He gained a victory in boxing at Olympia, though it is uncertain in what year; and there was a statue of him at Olympia, the work of Naucydes. (Paus. 6.6.1, 7.1.) The Scholiast on Pindar (Pind. O. 7.16) calls him Euclon, and describes him as a nephew of Callipateira. (Böckh, Eaplicat. ad Pind. Ol. vii. p. 166, &c.; Diagoras, Eratidae.)
2. A son of Hippon of Syracuse, was one of the three new commanders who were appointed in B. C. 414. Subsequently he was one of the commanders of the fleet which the Syracusans sent to Miletus to assist Tissaphernes against the Athenialls. (Thuc. 6.103; Xen. Hell. 1.2.8.)
Eucles was archon at Athens iin B. C. 427. (Thuc. 4.104.) [L.S]
- a Rhodian, Olympic victor: Paus. 6.6.2
- his mother was Callipatira, daughter of Diagoras: Paus. 6.7.2