Eurymedon (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Eurymedon (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυμέδοντα "ruling far and wide") was the name of several minor figures:
* Eurymedon. in rare accounts, a Titan who fathered Prometheus by Hera.Potter, Comment. ad Lyc. Cass. 1283; Eustathius, ad Homer, p. 987 
* Eurymedon, king of the Gigantes, father of Periboea (mother of Nausithous by Poseidon). He brought destruction on his people and was himself destroyed.Homer. Odyssey, Book 7.56ff
* Eurymedon, one of the Cabiri, children of Hephaestus and Cabiro, a Thracian woman. He was the brother of Alcon. Eurymedon fought in the Indian War of Dionysus but he fled when attacked by Orontes.Nonnus. Dionysiaca, Book 14.22; Cicero. De Natura Deorum, 3.21.
* Eurymedon, possible father of Cinyras by the nymph Paphia.Scholia, ad Pindar, Pythian Ode, 2 28
* Eurymedon, one of the four sons of Minos and his concubine Pareia. His brothers were Nephalion, Chryses and Philolaus. Eurymedon was a resident of the island of Paros in the Cyclades but was slain by the hero Heracles.Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 2.5.9 & 3.1.2
* Eurymedon, son of Dionysus and Ariadne, one of the Argonauts.Hyginus. Fabulae 14
* Eurymedon, father of Andromache who was one of sacrificial victims of the Minotaur.Servius on Aeneid, 16. 4
* Eurymedon, defender of the Hypsistan gate at Thebes during the military campaign of the Seven Against Thebes. He is the son of Faunus (Pan).Statius. Thebaid, 7.262, 8.356, & 11.32
* Eurymedon, squire and charioteer of Agamemnon. He was the son of Ptolemy (Ptolemaeus), son of Peiraeus.Homer. Iliad, Book 4.228 Eurymedon's tomb was shown at Mycenae.Pausanias. Description of Greece, 2.16.5.
* Eurymedon, servant of Nestor.Homer. Iliad, Book 8.114 & 11.620
* Eurymedon, a surname of PoseidonPindar. Olympian Ode, 8.31, PerseusApollonius of Rhodes. Argonautica, Book 4.1514 and HermesHesychius of Miletus. s. v..
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