[4] He fought valiantly and is often listed amongst the first rank of Greek heroes such as Idomeneus, Diomedes, Ajax, etc.
[5] In the Iliad, he was one of several to accept Hector's challenge to single combat, but was eliminated in the drawing of lots.
Eventually he came to Aroe (later Patrae), where he found people sacrificing a youth and a maiden to Artemis, to propitiate the goddess for the crime of Comaetho and Melanippus, who had polluted her shrine.
The people of the town recognised him as a leader an oracle had said would come to them and bring about an image and cult of a foreign deity, at which point the sacrifices were to cease.
After this, Eurypylus regained his sanity and the people of Patrae no longer needed to make human sacrifices.