Eurymedon (mythology)
In
Ancient Greek
: Εὐρυμέδων; "ruling far and wide") was the name of several minor figures:
- Eurymedon, in rare accounts, a
- Eurymedon, king of the Gigantes, father of Periboea (mother of Nausithous by Poseidon). He brought destruction on his people and was himself destroyed.[4]
- Eurymedon, one of the Cabiri, children of
- Eurymedon, possible father of Cinyras by the nymph Paphia.[7]
- Eurymedon, one of the four sons of
- Eurymedon, son of Dionysus and Ariadne, one of the Argonauts. He was the brother of Phlias.[9]
- Eurymedon, father of Andromache who was one of the sacrificial victims of the Minotaur.[10]
- Eurymedon, father of Leanida who consorted with Zeus and became the mother of Coron.
- Eurymedon, defender of the Hypsistan gate at Thebes during the military campaign of the Seven against Thebes. He is the son of Faunus (Pan).[11]
- Eurymedon, squire and charioteer of Agamemnon. He was the son of Ptolemy (Ptolemaeus), son of Peiraeus.[12] Eurymedon's tomb was shown at Mycenae.[13]
- Eurymedon, servant of Nestor.[14]
- Eurymedon, a surname of Poseidon,[15] Perseus[16] and Hermes.[17]
References
- ^ Potter, Comment. ad Lyc. Cass. 1283
- ^ Eustathius ad Homer, p. 987
- ^ Scholium on the Iliad 14.295
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 7.56 ff.
- ^ Nonnus, 14.22
- ^ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.21
- ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.28
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.5.9 & 3.1.2
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
- 16.4
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 7.262, 8.356, & 11.32
- ^ Homer, Iliad 4.228
- ^ Pausanias, 2.16.5
- ^ Homer, Iliad 8.114 & 11.620
- ^ Pindar, Olympian Ode 8.31
- ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1514
- ^ Hesychius. s. v.
Further reading
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. .
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- Kaya, Durmuş, and Stephen Mitchell. “The Sanctuary of the God Eurymedon at Tymbriada in Pisidia.” Anatolian Studies, vol. 35, 1985, pp. 39–55. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3642870. Accessed 24 Apr. 2020.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Nature of the Gods from the Treatises of M.T. Cicero translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1812-1891), Bohn edition of 1878. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Natura Deorum. O. Plasberg. Leipzig. Teubner. 1917. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pindar, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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- Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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