 He is portrayed as an unpleasant cowardly individual who undermines Odysseus and stirs up trouble.When the ship stops on Aeaea, home of Circe the goddess-sorceress, daughter of the sun god Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse, Eurylochus and Odysseus draw lots to lead a group of twenty-two men to explore the island.Eurylochus is chosen.