The children were separated from their mother after she was exiled from the island for having spared her own father
Thoas. Later, the brothers participated in the funeral games of
Opheltes (Archemorus), for whose death Hypsipyle was responsible.[5][6]
Euneus later became King of Lemnos. According to
Homer, the Greek fleet on its way to
Troy, in the generation after the Argo quest, was reprovisioned and victualled at Euneus' orders.[7] He ransomed
Lycaon, a Trojan prisoner, from
Patroclus for a silver urn which had been once offered as a gift to his grandfather
Thoas, the king of
Lemnos, by the
Phoenicians.[8]
The Euneidae, a Lemnian clan of
cithara-players, regarded Euneus as their ancestor.[9][10]