Euphorbus

John Tzetzes describes Euphorbus as handsome man with 'the loveliest locks among the curly-haired', into which with gold and other ornaments were braided.

[3] In his Chiliades or Book of Histories, Tzetzes relays that Orpheus gives Euphorbus' parents as the naiad Abarbarea and Boucolides.

[10] The Greek sophist Philostratus also includes the story of Pythagoras' claim in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana.

[11] The poet Ovid includes both the details of verification via shield and the later reincarnation as Pythagoras in his epic poem Metamorphoses.

In this account Pythagoras claimed that Euphorbus was one reincarnation in a string of previous lives which began with the Argonaut Aethalides.

Menelaus and Hector fighting over the body of Euphorbus, on the Euphorbos plate , from Rhodes , Middle Wild Goat style , c. 600 BCE, British Museum .