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Eriphyle

Eriphyle, daughter of Talaus and Lysimakhe, was the mother of Alkmaeon and the wife of Amphiaraus. Eriphyle persuaded Amphiaraus to take part in the raid that initiated the mythic tale of the Seven Against Thebes, though she knew he would die. She had been persuaded by Polynices, who offered her the necklace of Harmonia for her assistance.

The dying Amphiaraus charged his sons Alkmaeon and Amphilokhus with avenging his death and, after Amphiaraus died, fulfilling the prophecy, Alkmaeon killed his mother. He was pursued by the Erinyes as he fled across Greece, eventually reaching the court of King Phegeus, who gave him his daughter in marriage. Exhausted, Alkmaeon asked an oracle how to assuage the Erinyes and was told that he needed to stop where the sun was not shining when he killed his mother. That was at the mouth of the river Akhelous, which had become silted up. Akhelous, the god of that river, offered him his daughter Kallirrhoe in marriage if Alkmaeon would retrieve the necklace and clothes that Eriphyle had worn when she persuaded Amphiaraus to take part in the battle. Alkmaeon had given these jewels to Phegeus, who had his sons kill Alkmaeon when he discovered his plan.
Aeskhreis

Aeskhreis was one of the fifty daughters of Thespius, King of Thespiae, Boeotia. She was one of the forty-nine of his fifty daughters to sleep with Herakles while he was in Thespiae. She would carry his son Leukones.

## Family

### Parents

King Thespius and Queen Megamede or potentially one of Thespius' lovers

## Classical Text

*by Aeskhreis he* [Herakles] *had Leukones*
- Apollod. Biblioteca 2.7.8
Dioxippe (Danaid)

Dioxippe was one of the six daughters of Danaus and Pieria.  Dioxippe was one of the fifty Daniads wheo took part in the mass marriage to the fifty sons of King Aigyptos.  Dioxippe married Aigyptos (the son who shared his father's namesake).  The night of the mass marriage, Dioxippe along with forty-eight of her forty-nine sisters murdered their respective husbands.
Eurypylus of Thessaly

**Eurypylus** /jʊəˈrɪpɪləs/ (Ancient Greek: Εὐρύπυλος *Eurypylos*) was a Thessalian king.

## Family

Eurypylus was the son of Euaemon and Ops. Another source gives his mother's name as either Deipyle or Deityche. Alternate genealogies made him a son of Hyperochus and father of Ormenus.

## Mythology

Eurypylus led the Thessalians during the Trojan War being a former suitor of Helen. He led one of the larger contingents of ships, 40. He fought valiantly and is often listed amongst the first rank of Greek heroes such as Idomeneus, Diomedes, Ajax, etc. In the *Iliad* he was one of several to accept Hector's challenge to single combat, but was eliminated in the drawing of lots. He went to the aid of Ajax the Great when the latter was wounded and tired from hard fighting and was compelled to withdraw from combat: in defending Ajax he killed Apisaon but was wounded in the thigh and put out of action by one of Paris' arrows. This happened in the same book that all the other major Achaean warriors were wounded and put out of action. When he withdrew from battle, his wounds were tended by Patroclus, just after Nestor had convinced Patroclus either to convince Achilles to return to the fight or don his armor himself. Eurypylus slew no less than four opponents, including the aforementioned Apisaon, Hypsenor, Melanthius and Axion: this makes the account of Hyginus wrong in informing that Eurypylus killed only one defender of Troy. He was also one of the Greeks to enter the Trojan Horse.

Eurypylus survived the Trojan War; his further destiny as described by Pausanias was as follows. After the war, Eurypylus got a chest as part of his victory spoils. The chest was abandoned by Aeneas when he fled from Troy, or was intentionally left behind by Cassandra who placed a curse on it to whichever Greek would open the chest. Inside the chest was an image of Dionysus, made by Hephaestus and given to the Trojans by Zeus. When Eurypylus opened the chest he went mad. During a period of sanity he went to Delphi to seek a cure for his malady. The priestess told him to find a people making an unusual sacrifice and settle there. 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. His tomb was in the city, and he was honored as a hero at the festival of Dionysus.
Gorgophone (Perseid)

Gorgophone (Γοργοφόνη) was a queen of Messenia and Sparta. Her name means "Gorgon Slayer", a tribute to her father Perseus who killed Medusa, the mortal Gorgon.

## Biography

Gorgophone as one of the Perseids, was the daughter of Perseus and Andromeda. She was the sister of Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus of Mycenae, Electryon, Cynurus and Autochthe.

Gorgophone was a prominent figure in the mythical history of Sparta, having been married to two kings, Oebalus of Laconia and Perieres of Messenia, and being considered the first woman to have married twice. After the death of her first husband Perieres by whom she had sons, Aphareus, Leucippus, Tyndareus, Ikarius and possibly Pisus, Gorgophone took Oebalus as her second spouse and by him she begat a daughter Arene and some say, of Tyndareus also.
Hippothoe (Amazon)

Hippothoe was one of the Amazons who came with Penthesileia to the Trojan War. She was killed by Akhilles at Troy

## Classical Text

And with her followed twelve beside, each one a princess, hot for war and battle grim, far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her: Penthesileia far outshone them all. As when in the broad sky amidst the stars the moon rides over all pre-eminent, when through the thunderclouds the cleaving heavens open, when sleep the fury-breathing winds; so peerless was she mid that charging host. Clonie was there, Polemusa, Derinoe, Evandre, and Antandre, and Bremusa, Hippothoe, dark-eyed Harmothoe, Alcibie, Derimacheia, Antibrote, and Thermodosa glorying with the spear. All these to battle fared with warrior-souled Penthesileia: even as when descends Dawn from Olympus' crest of adamant, Dawn, heart-exultant in her radiant steeds amidst the bright-haired Hours; and o'er them all, how flawless-fair soever these may be, her splendour of beauty glows pre-eminent; so peerless amid all the Amazons unto Troy-town Penthesileia came. To right, to left, from all sides hurrying thronged the Trojans, greatly marvelling, when they saw the tireless War-god's child, the mailed maid, like to the Blessed Gods; for in her face glowed beauty glorious and terrible. Her smile was ravishing: beneath her brows, her love-enkindling eyes shone like to stars, and with the crimson rose of shamefastness bright were her cheeks, and mantled over them unearthly grace with battle-prowess clad.

- Quintus Smyrnaeus. *Fall of Troy* i, 40 - i 72.
Hippolytos (Son of Aigyptos)

Hippolytos (Ἱππόλυτος) was one of the fifty sons of King Aigyptos. Hippolytos' mother was an unnamed arabian woman. The same woman that gave birth to Hippolytos bore nine other sons to Aigyptos. In the mass wedding of the sons of Aigyptos to the daughters of Danaus, Hippolytos wed Rhodê.

## Classical Text

"[The daughters of Danaus married the sons of Aigyptos:] Hippodameia went to Istros, Rhodia to Khalkodon, Kleopatra to Agenor, Asteria to Khaetos, Phylodameia to Diokorystos, Glauke to Alkes, Hippomedusa to Alkmenor, Gorge to Hippothous, Iphimedusa to Eukhenor, and Rhode to Hippolytos. These ten sons had an Arabian mother, while the girls were the daughters variously of Atlanteia and Phoibe, two Hamadryas Nymphai."

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5 (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)
Eubouleus

Eubouleus (Eubuleus) was the demi-god or hero of the sacred swine of the Eleusinian Mysteries. He was perhaps also a demi-god of ploughing and the planting of the grain seed.

Eubouleus appears in two seperate regional myths. In the Cretan myth he was a son of the grain-goddess Demeter and her consort the harvest-man Karmanor. In the Eleusinian and Argive myths he was the swine-herd brother of Triptolemos whose animals were swallowed up by the earth when Hades seized Persephone. Eubouleus was occassionally depicted in ancient art amongst the deities of the Eleusinian Mysteries where he appears as a youth holding an Eleusinian torch.

Eubouleus' name means "Good-Counsellor" from the Greek word *euboulos*. It might also mean "Well-Clodded" from the words *bôlos* "clod of earth" and *bôlostropheô* "to turn up clods ploughing".

Eubouleus was identified with various gods including Iakkhos, leader of the Eleusinian procession, Dionysos, and Hades. As a son of Demeter he was perhaps identified with Boôtês or Ploutos.
Gorgades

The Gorgades (Γοργαδες) were a tribe inhabiting certain islands off the Atlantic coast of Africa whose womanfolk were entirely covered in hair.

The tribe perhaps derives from ancient traveller's accounts of some species of monkey or ape. They are perhaps the same as the Satyroi of the Satyrides Isles.

## Classical Text

"Opposite this cape [the Atlantic coast of Africa] also there are reported to be some islands, the Gorgades [perhaps the Canary Islands], which were formerly the habitation of the Gorgones, and which according to the account of Xenophon of Lampsacus are at a distance of two days' sail from the mainland. These islands were reached by the Carthaginian general Hanno, who reported that the women had hair all over their bodies, but that the men were so swift of foot that they got away; and he deposited the skins of two of the female natives in the Temple of Juno [i.e. a Carthaginian goddess identified with Juno] as proof of the truth of his story and as curiosities, where they were on show until Carthage was taken by Rome

Outside the Gorgades there are also said to be two Islands of the Hesperides; and the whole of the geography in this neighbourhood is so uncertain that Statius Sevosus has given the voyage along the coast from the Gorgones' Islands past Mount Atlas to the Isles of the Hesperides as forty days' sail and from those islands to the Horn of the West as one day's sail."

- *Pliny the Elder, Natural History 6. 200 (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.)*
Helops

## Classical Text

"I saw Petraeus when he strove to tear up from the earth, an acorn-bearing oak. And, while he struggled with it, back and forth, and was just ready to wrench up the trunk, Pirithous hurled a well aimed spear at him, transfixed his ribs, and pinned his body tight, writhing, to that hard oak: and Lycus fell and Chromis fell, before Pirithous. They gave less glory to the conqueror than Helops or than Dictys. Helops was killed by a javelin, which pierced his temples from the right side, clear through to his left ear. And Dictys, running in a desperate haste, hoping in vain, to escape Ixion's son, slipped on the steep edge of a precipice; and, as he fell down headlong crashed into the top of a huge ash-tree, which impaled his dying body on its broken spikes.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.327-12.340 (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)
Hermês

## Family

### Spouse & Lovers

Aglauros
Akalle
Alkidameia
Antianeira
Aphrodite
Aptale
Daeira
Erytheia
Eupolemeia
Herse
Iphthime
Kallisto
Karmentis
Khthonophyle
Klytie
Kreousa
Libya
Okyrhoê
Orneios
Pênelopeia
Phylodameia
Polymele
Rhênê
Sôsê
Theoboule
Thronia
Thymbris

### Children

Abderus
Aethalides
Agreus
Angelia
Arabus
Eurytos
Hermaphroditos
Myrtilus
Nomios
Norax
Palaistra
Pan
Phorbas
Almo

**Almo** was in ancient Roman region the eponymous god of the small river Almo in the vicinity of Rome. Like Tiberinus and others, he was prayed to by the augurs of Rome. In the water of Almo the aniconic stone embodying the mother of the gods, Kybele, used to be washed. He had a naiad daughter named Larunda.
Harmothoe

**Harmothoe**. One of the Amazons who came with Penthesilia to the Trojan War. She was killed by Akhilles at Troy

## Classical Text

And with her followed twelve beside, each one a princess, hot for war and battle grim, far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her: Penthesileia far outshone them all. As when in the broad sky amidst the stars the moon rides over all pre-eminent, when through the thunderclouds the cleaving heavens open, when sleep the fury-breathing winds; so peerless was she mid that charging host. Clonie was there, Polemusa, Derinoe, Evandre, and Antandre, and Bremusa, Hippothoe, dark-eyed Harmothoe, Alcibie, Derimacheia, Antibrote, and Thermodosa glorying with the spear. All these to battle fared with warrior-souled Penthesileia: even as when descends Dawn from Olympus' crest of adamant, Dawn, heart-exultant in her radiant steeds amidst the bright-haired Hours; and o'er them all, how flawless-fair soever these may be, her splendour of beauty glows pre-eminent; so peerless amid all the Amazons unto Troy-town Penthesileia came. To right, to left, from all sides hurrying thronged the Trojans, greatly marvelling, when they saw the tireless War-god's child, the mailed maid, like to the Blessed Gods; for in her face glowed beauty glorious and terrible. Her smile was ravishing: beneath her brows, her love-enkindling eyes shone like to stars, and with the crimson rose of shamefastness bright were her cheeks, and mantled over them unearthly grace with battle-prowess clad.

- Quintus Smyrnaeus. *Fall of Troy* i, 40 - i 72.
Euneus

In Greek mythology, **Euneus** (Ancient Greek: Εὔνηος) was a son of Iason and Queen Hypsipyle of Lemnos; he had a twin brother whose name is variously given as Nebrophonus, Thoas or Deipylus

## Mythology

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.

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. 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.

The Euneidae, a Lemnian clan of cithara-players, regarded Euneus as their ancestor.
Eurytos (Son of Aktor)

In Greek mythology, Eurytos (Εὔρυτος) and Kteatus (Κτέατος) were twin brothers and also named the Moliones or Molionidai for their mother, Molione.

Family

Eurytos and Kteatus were the sons of either Aktor or Poseidon and nephew of Augeas. Eurytos and Kteatus married the twin daughters of Dexamenus, Theraephone and Therenice, respectively. Their respective sons, Thalpius and Amphimakhus, were counted among the Achaean leaders in the Trojan War.

Mythology

Greek legend maintains that the brothers were born conjoined with only one body but two heads, four arms and four legs, though Homer makes no mention of this.

Eurytos was one of the Kalydonian Hunters. His exact role of Kteatus in the hunt is unknown.

Both brothers went on expeditions of war to the Neleus and the Pylians, and later led an army marching against their uncle Augeas at the behest of Herakles. However after the latter made peace, the brothers attacked Herakles and were subsequently killed by him outside Kleonae.
Gegenees

The Gegenees were a tribe of six-armed giants who fought the Argonauts on Bear Mountain in Mysia

## Classical Text

"In the Propontis there is an island sloping steeply to the sea, close to the rich mainland of Phrygia, and parted from it only by a low isthmus barely raised above the waves. The isthmus, with its two shores, lies east of the River Aisepos (Aesepus); and the place itself is called Bear Mountain by the people round about. It is inhabited by a fierce and lawless tribe of aborigines, who present an astounding spectacle to their neighbours. Each of these earthborn monsters is equipped with six great arms, two springing from his shoulders, and four below from his prodigious flanks. But the isthmus and the plain belong to the Doliones, who had for king the noble Kyzikos (Cyzicus) . . . These people were never troubled by the fearsome aborigines: Poseidon, from whom they were descended, saw to that.

Argo, pressing on with a stiff breeze from Thrake behind reached this coast and ran into a harbour called Fairhaven . . . The Doliones and Kyzikos their king received the Argonauts in a friendly spirits . . .

In the morning some of the Argonauts climbed towards the top of Dindymon in the hope of seeing for themselves the waters they would have to cross . . . Another party brought the ship from her former anchorage to the harbour of Khytos (Chytus) [Kyzikos' city].

But now the earthborn savages, coming from the other side, dashed down the mountain and blocked the mouth of the ample harbour of Khytos with boulders, in an attempt to pen them like wild beasts in a trap. However, Herakles had been left there with the younger men. He quickly bent his recurved bow and brought a number of the monsters down. The rest retaliated by pelting him with jagged rocks. And I cannot but surmise that these redoubtable beasts were bred by Hera, wife of Zeus, as an extra labour for Herakles. But just at this moment, the rest of the Argonauts, who had turned back before reaching the summit, appeared on the scene to take their part in the slaughter. The monsters charged with fury more than once, but the young warriors were ready for them with their spears and arrows and in the end they killed them all.

When the long timbers for a ship have been hewn by the woodman's axe they are laid in rows on a beach and there they lie and soak till they are ready to receive the bolts. That is how these fallen monsters looked, stretched out in a row on the grey beach by the harbour mouth. Some were sprawling in a mass with their limbs on shore and their heads and breasts in the sea. Some lay the other way about; their heads were resting on the sands and their feet were deep in the water. But in either case they were carrion for birds and fish. The day was won and the Argonauts had no more to fear."

- *Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica (trans. Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.)*
Harpolykos

Harpolykos was one of two Gigantes that Hera killed.  Harpoykos not shown as often as Phoitos though she is shown on one side of a Black figure Amphora which was dated somewhere between 575 B.C. to  525 B.C.  she is shown on the far left stabbing Harpolykos with a knife or sword while her husband faced off against Hyperbios and Agasthenes.  The fallen Ephialtes (who had been killed by the un-pictured Apollôn) is also shown.

## Trivia

Fighting against the Gigantes Phoitos and Harpolykos  in the  Gigantomakhia was the first time Hera ever directly involved herself in the attempts to destroy enemies (sending a Crab to distract Herakles during his second labor.
Hebros

Hebros was a river-god of Kikonia in eastern Thrake.

The River Hebros had its headwaters on Mount Rhodope in northern Thrake and emptied into the Aegean Sea near the Greek colony of Ainos opposite the island of Samothrake. The closest neighboring rivers personified by the Greeks were the Istros to the north, and the Nestos to the west. The Ardêskos (modern-day Maritsa), a tributary of the Hebros, was also personified.
Grênikos

Grênikos (Granicus) was a river-god of the Troad in northern Mysia, Anatolia (modern Turkey).

The River Grênikos had its headwaters in the foothills of Mount Ida and emptied into the Hellespont near the Mysian town of Priapos. The major neighboring rivers were Aisêpos to the east and Rhodios in the west.
Helle

A daughter of Athamas and Nephele. She and her brother Phrixus fled on a ram, sent by Nephele, from the wiles of their stepmother Ino. During this flight Helle fell into the sea, between Sigeium and the Chersonesus, which was from then on known as the Hellespont (sea of Helle). Her brother safely reached Kolkhis where he sacrificed the ram to Zeus and hung the fleece in a wood dedicated to Ares, where it remained until Jason and the Argonauts arrived to claim it.

Helle's tomb was shown near Pactya, on the Hellespont. She is also called Nepheleis after her mother.

According to some traditions, she is the mother of the giants Almops and Paeon by Poseidon, suggesting she was rescued by Poseidon after she fell into the water and perhaps converted by him into a sea deity.
Agauē (Danaid)

**Agauē** was one of the fifty Danaids (Daughters of Danaus) who took part in the mass marriage to the sons of Aigyptos. Agave married Imbros (whose mother was Argyphia).  That night Agauē along with forty-eight of her forty-nine sisters slew their husbands.

## Punishment

When Agauē and the other Danaids who had murdered their husbands they were sent to Tartarus and were forced to carry water from the river Styx in bowls (or jars according to some) with holes over to a tub which leaks at multiple parts. Agauē and the others were told only when they filled the tub could they wash away their sins. The Danaids continue this essentially impossible task to this very day.

## Ancient Text

"...of the rest Busiris, Enceladus, Lycus, and Daiphron obtained by lot the daughters that had been borne to Danaus by Europe, to wit, Automate, Amymone, Agave, and Scaea."
Eurytos (Son of Hermes)

Eurytus (sometimes spelled Erytus or Eurytos) was the son of Hermes and Antianeira or Laothoe, and brother of Ekhion. He was one of the Argonauts, and also hunted the Kalydonian Boar.  Eurytus' part in both was minimal but he is mentioned by Apollonius Rhodius in Argonautica.

## Classical Text

"Erytus and Echion, and with them on their departure their kinsman Aethalides went as the third;"

- Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.51

Nor at Alope stayed the sons of Mercury, rich in corn-land, well skilled in craftiness, Eurytus and Echion, and with them on their departure their kinsman Aethalides went as the third

- Hyginus, Fabulae, 14
Deileon

**Deileon** (Ancient Greek: Δηιλέων, *Dēileōn*) is a figure in Greek mythology. He was a son of Deimachus from Tricca in Thessaly. Along with his brothers, Autolycus and Phlogius, Deileon took part in the campaign of Hercules during the Amazon battles. These three brothers went astray and stayed at Sinope, where they later met the Argonauts and joined them on their expedition to Colchis. Plutarch mentioned him as *Demoleon* (Ancient Greek: Δημολέων).
Golden Fleece

The Golden Fleece was the treasure sought by Iason and the Argonauts. It originated in the following fashion. Phrixus and Helle were the children of Athamas and the Okeanid Nephele. When Athamas remarried, the children's stepmother, Ino, became jealous of them and plotted to get rid of them. She arranged to have seed-corn roasted so that it would not sprout. When the crop failed, messengers were sent to consult the oracle at Delphi, and Ino persuaded the messengers to say that that the oracle required the sacrifice of Phrixus to restore fertility to the fields.

Athamas was forced to comply, but before Phrixus could be sacrificed, however, Nephele sent a golden ram which carried both children off through the air. Helle fell into the Hellespont (which was named after her), but Phrixus arrived safely at Kolkhis, where he married the daughter of King Aiêtēs. Phrixus sacrificed the ram to Zeus, and gave its pelt (the Golden Fleece) to Aiêtēs. Aiêtēs placed the fleece in an oak tree, guarded by the Kholkikos Drakon, where it remained until Jason arrived to claim it.
Eumelus

**Eumelus** (Εὔμηλος) was the name of one of the leaders in the Trojan War. Eumelus, succeeded his father Admetos as the King of Pherae, and his mother was Alkestis, daughter of King Pelias of Iolcus. Eumelus married Iphthime, daughter of Ikarius of Sparta, and possibly by her, became the father of Zeuxippus. Eumelus was one of the "suitors of Helen" and thus, led Pherae and Iolkus in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks. He was the fifth and last in the chariot races at Patroklos's funeral. Eumelus was also one of the Greeks in the Trojan Horse.
Galaxaura

**Galaxaura** whose name means "milky breeze" is an Okeanid (Child of Okeanos or Okeanos & Tethys) Nymph.  Since Galaxaura's name refers mist-clearing breeze it is almost certain that she was an Aurai (nymphs of the breezes).

## Ancient Text

"Also she brought forth a holy company of daughters who with the lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their keeping -- to this charge Zeus appointed them -- Peitho, and Admete, and Ianthe, and Electra, and Doris, and Prymno, and Urania divine in form, Hippo, Clymene, Rhodea, and Callirrhoe, Zeuxo and Clytie, and Idyia, and Pasithoe, Plexaura, and Galaxaura, and lovely Dione, Melobosis and Thoe and handsome Polydora, Cerceis lovely of form, and soft eyed Pluto, Perseis, Ianeira, Acaste, Xanthe, Petraea the fair, Menestho, and Europa, Metis, and Eurynome, and Telesto saffron-clad, Chryseis and Asia and charming Calypso, Eudora, and Tyche, Amphirho, and Ocyrrhoe, and Styx who is the chiefest of them all. These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys; but there are many besides. For there are three thousand neat-ankled daughters of Ocean who are dispersed far and wide, and in every place alike serve the earth and the deep waters, children who are glorious among goddesses."[1]

- Hesiod, Theogony 346
Diônê (Star Nymph)

In Greek mythology, Dione was described as the daughter of Atlas and an Oceanid nymph (either Pleione or Aethra). Though Dione was a star nymph who lived on a mountain, she was neither one of the Hyades or the Pleaids.

## Children

Pelops
Niobe

## Classical Text

"Pelops, son of Tantalus and Dione, daughter of Atlas."
- Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 83
Eukleia

While one of the Eukleia is listed as a child of Hephaistos and Aglia being the goddess or personified spirit (*daimona*) of good repute and glory, another Eukleia is also listed among Herakles' children. Although considering the significance (or lack there of) of Myrto it is most likely that Euryleia is a child of Herakles and Myrto who shares the same name as the Eukleia who is one of the younger charities. If this is the case then Eukleia is one of only four out of nearly one-hundred children Herakles' sired.
Erebos (God)

Erebos (Ερεβος) was the primordial god (protogenos) of darkness and the consort of Nyx (Night). His dark mists encircled the world and filled the deep hollows of the earth. In the evening, Erebos' wife Nyx drew Erebos' darkness across the sky bringing night and his daughter Hemera scattered it at dawn bringing day--the first obscuring Aither (Aether), the heavenly light of the ether, the second revealing it. In the ancient cosmogonies the heavenly ether (aither) and the dark mists of the netherworld (erebos) were regarded as the sources of day and light rather than the sun.

The name Erebos was also used as a synonym for the netherworld realm of Haides.
Europa (Okeanid)

Europa is the Okeanid-nymph

## Classical Text

"Also she brought forth a holy company of daughters who with the lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their keeping -- to this charge Zeus appointed them -- Peitho, and Admete, and Ianthe, and Electra, and Doris, and Prymno, and Urania divine in form, Hippo, Clymene, Rhodea, and Callirrhoe, Zeuxo and Clytie, and Idyia, and Pasithoe, Plexaura, and Galaxaura, and lovely Dione, Melobosis and Thoe and handsome Polydora, Cerceis lovely of form, and soft eyed Pluto, Perseis, Ianeira, Acaste, Xanthe, Petraea the fair, Menestho, and Europa, Metis, and Eurynome, and Telesto saffron-clad, Chryseis and Asia and charming Calypso, Eudora, and Tyche, Amphirho, and Ocyrrhoe, and Styx who is the chiefest of them all. These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys; but there are many besides. For there are three thousand neat-ankled daughters of Ocean who are dispersed far and wide, and in every place alike serve the earth and the deep waters, children who are glorious among goddesses. And as many other rivers are there, babbling as they flow, sons of Ocean, whom queenly Tethys bare, but their names it is hard for a mortal man to tell, but people know those by which they severally dwell."

- Hesiod Theogony 346-370
Eurynome (Titaness)

E**urynome** (Εὐρυνόμη) was a deity of ancient Greek religion worshipped at a sanctuary near the confluence of rivers called the Neda and the Lymax in classical Peloponnesus. She was represented by a statue of a mermaid. Tradition, as reported by the Greek traveller, Pausanias, identified her with the Oceanid, or “daughter of Ocean”, of Greek poetry.

In the epic tradition, Eurynome was one of the elder Oceanides, that is, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Eurynome was the third bride of Zeus and mother of the Charites, goddesses of grace and beauty. Eurynome is the mother of the 3 Graces.

When Hephaestus was cast from Mt. Olympus by the goddess Hera, who was disgusted at having borne a crippled child, he was caught by Eurynome and Thetis (possibly a doubling for Tethys, her mother). Eurynome and Thetis nursed the god Hephaestus on the banks of the earth-encircling river Oceanus, after his fall from heaven. Aglaea, Eurynome's daughter, later became Hephaestus' bride.

Eurynome is closely identified with another Eurynome, Queen of the Titans. This Eurynome was an early Titan queen who ruled Olympus beside her husband Ophion. The pair were wrestled for their thrones by Kronos and Rhea who cast them down into the earth-encircling river Oceanus. She may have been the same as the Titan Tethys whose river-god sons nurtured the pastures and whose daughter Eurynome was goddess of pasturelands. Eurynome's husband Ophion "the Serpent" was similar to Tethys' husband Oceanus, who in classical art was represented with a serpentine-fish tail in place of legs and holding a snake (ophis). It is also possible that Ophion and Eurynome (daughter of Oceanus) were equated with Ouranos (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth). In the Orphic Theogonies Gaia was the daughter of Hydrus (Water), a primordial being similar to Oceanus. It was Ouranos who Kronos wrestles for the throne of Olympus in Hesiod's Theogony.

## Ancient Text

"Also she brought forth a holy company of daughters who with the lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their keeping -- to this charge Zeus appointed them -- Peitho, and Admete, and Ianthe, and Electra, and Doris, and Prymno, and Urania divine in form, Hippo, Clymene, Rhodea, and Callirrhoe, Zeuxo and Clytie, and Idyia, and Pasithoe, Plexaura, and Galaxaura, and lovely Dione, Melobosis and Thoe and handsome Polydora, Cerceis lovely of form, and soft eyed Pluto, Perseis, Ianeira, Acaste, Xanthe, Petraea the fair, Menestho, and Europa, Metis, and Eurynome, and Telesto saffron-clad, Chryseis and Asia and charming Calypso, Eudora, and Tyche, Amphirho, and Ocyrrhoe, and Styx who is the chiefest of them all. These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys; but there are many besides. For there are three thousand neat-ankled daughters of Ocean who are dispersed far and wide, and in every place alike serve the earth and the deep waters, children who are glorious among goddesses."[1]

- Hesiod, Theogony 346
Eribotes

In Greek mythology, Eribotes (Ἐρυβώτης) was the son of Teleon, was counted among the Argonauts.

## Mythology

Eribotes appears to have had skills of a physician: in the Argonautica, he attends on Oileus when the latter is wounded by a feather of a Stymphalian bird.

One the return trip, Eribotes along with Canthus died. They were slain in Libya by the shepherd Cephalion, son of the nymph Tritonis and Amphithemis, whose flocks they were plundering.
Hekabe

Hekabe (Ἑκάβη) was the wife of King Priam and the mother of nineteen of Priam's children.

## Hekaba in Myths

Greek myths portray her as a noble and dignified woman who was a model wife and mother of nineteen sons and several daughters. Of the sons are the most famous Hektor, Paris and Deiphobos, of the daughters the most important role played by Kassandra.

Despite its positive character traits, fate was extremely cruel to her. She survived all her sons, she even saw her husband's death at the hands of Akhilles' son Neoptolem. As a slave, she fell to Odysseo, but soon afterwards she died.

Other legends portray her humiliating death when she died for killing King Polyméstor. The king's death was in retaliation for the killing of Hekabin's son Polydor.
Enyo (Daughter of Phorkys & Keto)

Enyo was one of three sea hags who personified the white foam of the sea. They were grey-haired from birth and shared amongst themselves a single, detatchable eye and tooth. The hero Perseus stole these when he was searching for the gorgons, compelling the hags to reveal the location of their sister.

The Graiai were usually depicted as old crones. According to Aeschylus, however, they were Seiren-shaped monsters with the head and arms of old women and the bodies of swans.

It is worth comparing the Graiai with the monster Lamia whom Greek writers likewise describe as a monstrous Libyan woman with removable eyes.
Dionysos

Dionysos was the final Olympian. After a great many deeds, Dionysos came to join the Olympians. Some controversy occurred because the twelve Olympians did not believe that they needed a thirteenth. To avoid a fight Hestia willingly stepped down and Dionysos became the thirteenth.

## Family

### Spouse & Lovers

Ariadnê
Aura

### Children

Thoas
Peparethos
Phliasos
Eurymedon
Oinopíōn
Staphylus
Iakkhos
Iakkhos' unnamed twin brother
«У подножия Найзатас»

Художественный фильм «У подножия Найзатас»

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Год: 1969

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Eurynomos

## Classical Text

"Victorious, then rushed he upon Evagrus, and Corythus and Dryas. First of these was youthful Corythus, whose cheeks were then just covered with soft down. When he fell dead, Evagrus cried, `What glory do you get, killing a boy?’ But Rhoetus did not give him time for uttering one word more. He pushed the red hot stake into the foeman's mouth, while he still spoke, and down into his lungs. He then pursued the savage Dryas, while whirling the red fire fast about his head; but not with like success, for, while he still rejoiced in killings, Dryas turned and pierced him with a stake where neck and shoulder meet. Rhoetus groaned and with a great effort pulled the stake out from the bone, then fled away, drenched in his blood. And Orneus followed him. Lycabas fled, and Medon with a wound in his right shoulder. Thaumas and Pisenor and Mermerus fled with them. Mermerus, who used to excell all others in a race, ran slowly, crippled by a recent wound. Pholus and Melaneus ran for their lives and with them Abas, hunter of wild boars and Asbolus, the augur, who in vain had urged his friends to shun that hapless fight. As Nessus joined the rout, he said to him, `You need not flee, for you shall be reserved a victim for the bow of Hercules!’ But neither Lycidas, Eurynomus nor Areos, nor Imbreus had escaped from death: for all of these the strong right hand of Dryas pierced, as they confronted him. Crenaeus there received a wound in front. Although he turned in flight, as he looked back, a heavy javelin between his eyes pierced through him, where his nose and forehead joined.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.290-12.315 (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)
Enkelados

Enkelados was one of the one-hundred Gigantes who were created to usurp and replace Olympians and other gods. Since Enkelados was the wisest of Gigantes, he was meant to be the replacement of Athena (goddess of wisdom). Enkelados was one of the few Gigantes who survived the war against the giants. Enkelados fled from the battlefield and was pursued by Athena to Sicily where she crushed Enkelados beneath Mount Aitna. Since killing one of the Gigantes took the combined force of a god and a mortal, hero the entrapment under Mount Aitna was not a fatal blow
Dryas (Son of Aigyptos)

Dryas was one of the fifty sons of King Aigyptos

## Classical Text

"The twelve sons of [Aigyptos and] a Naias Nymphe named Kaliadne drew lots for the daughters of [Danaus and] Polyxo, also a Naias. The sons were named Eurylokhos, Phantes, Peristhenes, Hermos, Dryas, Potamon, Kisseus, Lixos, Imbros, Bromios, Polyktor, and Khthonios; the girls were Autonoe, Theano, Êlektrê, Kleopatra, Eurydike, Glaukippe, Antheleia, Kleodore, Euippe, Eratô, Stygne, and Bryke."

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5 (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)
Drys

The oak was the dominant tree of the ancient Greek landscape. In fact the ancient Greek word for oak, 'drys', was also the word for tree. The two main commonly found in the region are the evergreen holm oak and the deciduous Valonian. Both range in size from thick low shrub (forming the basis of the modern-day Meditteranean scrub forests) to large trees. They were valued for their wood and for the autumn-ripening acorns. Tanin was also extracted from the acorn cups of the Valonian oak. This substance was a vital component employed in the tanning of leather hides. In Greek lore, the primitive, pre-agrarian tribes of Arkadia were said to have lived on a stable diet of acorns. In classical times it was a food only of last resort consumed in times of famine. Usually acorns were reserved for animal feed.
Dolyas

## Classical Text

"When Peleus at a distance saw him torn and mangled, he exclaimed, `At least receive this sacrifice, O Crantor! most beloved! Dearest of young men!’ And with sturdy arm and all his strength of soul as well, he hurled his ashen lance against Demoleon, which piercing through his shivered ribs, hung there and quivered in the bones. The centaur wrenched the wooden shaft out, with his frenzied hands, but could not move the pointed head, which stuck within his lungs. His very anguish gave him such a desperation, that he rose against his foe and trampled and beat down the hero with his hoofs, Peleus allowed the blows to fall on helm and ringing shield. Protected so, he watched his time and thrust up through the centaur's shoulder. By one stroke he pierced two breasts, where horse and man-form met. Before this, Peleus with the spear had killed both Myles and Phlegraeus and with the sword Iphinous and Clanis. Now he killed Dorylas, who was clad in a wolfskin cap and fought with curving bull's horns dripping blood.

- *Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.366-12.382 (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)*
Ekhephron

### Classical Text

"By other women Priam had sons, to wit, Melanippus, Gorgythion, Philaemon, Hippothous, Glaucus, Agathon, Chersidamas, Evagoras, Hippodamas, Mestor, Atas, Doryclus, Lycaon, Dryops, Bias, Chromius, Astygonus, Telestas, Evander, Cebriones, Mylius, Archemachus, Laodocus, Echephron, Idomeneus, Hyperion, Ascanius, Democoon, Aretus, Deiopites, Clonius, Echemmon, Hypirochus, Aegeoneus, Lysithous, Polymedon; and daughters, to wit, Medusa, Medesicaste, Lysimache, and Aristodeme."

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.5
Halia

Halia was a sea-nymph of the island of Rhodes loved by the god Poseidon. When her sons denied Aphrodite landing on the island, the goddess drove them into a mad frenzy causing them to rape their mother. Halia in shame cast herself into the sea and her sons were exiled by their father to the dark caverns beneath the island.
Eurybia

Eurybia was the goddess of power over, and mastery of, the sea. She apparently presided over external forces which influence the main such as the rise of the constellations, seasonal weather, and the power of the winds.

Eurybia was the wife of the Titan Krios and the grandmother of a variety of divinities with power over the sea. These included the Anemoi (Winds), the Astra, Hekate, Selene. Some of these also represent human mastery of the seas such as the winds for sailing, stars for navigation, and force, power and victory representing naval supremacy.
Gorgophone (Danaid)

Gorgophone was Hypermnestra's only full sibling.  Like the other Danaids Gorgophone took part in the mass marriage to the sons of King Aigyptos and subsequental mass murder of the husbands of the Daniads which was done at their father's command.

## Punishment

When Gorgophone and the other Danaids who had murdered their husbands they were sent to Tartarus and were forced to carry water from the river Styx in a bowls (or jars according to some) with holes over to a tub which leaks at multiple parts. Gorgophone and the others were told only when they filled the tub could they wash away their sins. The Danaids continue this essentially impossible task to this very day.

## Ancient Text

"First, they picked out Hypermnestra as the eldest to be the wife of Lynceus, and Gorgophone to be the wife of Proteus; for Lynceus and Proteus had been borne to Egyptus by a woman of royal blood, Argyphia."

*Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca* 2.1.4
Harpina

HARPINA was the Naiad-nymph of a spring, well or fountain of the town of Pisa in Elis (southern Greece). She the mother by Ares of Oinomaos (Oenomaus)--a barbarous king of Pisa famed for decorating his palace with the heads of the suitors of his daughter Hippodameia.

Harpina's name was derived by the Greek word harpê meaning "sickle-shaped sword."

She was probably identified with the Pleiad Sterope who was otherwise named as the mother of Oinomaos by Ares.
Hektor

**Hektor** (Ἕκτωρ) was the son of Priam and Hekabe and was the older brother of Paris and Kassandra. He was a soldier in the Trojan War who met his end at the hands of Akhilles as revenge for killing Patroklos.

Hektor was slain by Akhilles and Akhilles attached him to a chariot and was dragged around the walls of Troy seven times. His corpse was also dragged around Patroklos's grave several times. His body would've been unrecognizable, but Aphroditê had used a special potion to restore it to its former beauty.

## Classical Text

"So saying, he drew his sharp sword that hung beside his flank, a great sword and a mighty, and gathering himself together swooped like an eagle of lofty flight that darteth to the plain through the dark clouds to seize a tender lamb or a cowering hare; even so Hector swooped, brandishing his sharp sword. And Achilles rushed upon him, his beart ful of savage wrath, and before his breast he made a covering of his shield, fair and richly-dight, and tossed his bright four-horned helm; and fair about it waved the plumes wrought of gold, that Hephaestus had set thick about the crest. As a star goeth forth amid stars in the darkness of night, the star of evening, that is set in heaven as the fairest of all; even so went forth a gleam from the keen spear that Achilles poised in his right hand, as he devised evil for goodly Hector, looking the while upon his fair flesh to find where it was most open to a blow. Now all the rest of his flesh was covered by the armour of bronze, the goodly armour that he had stripped from mighty Patroclus when he slew him; but there was an opening where the collar bones part the neck and shoulders, even the gullet, where destruction of life cometh most speedily; even there, as he rushed upon him, goodly Achilles let drive with his spear; and clean out through the tender neck went the point."
*- Homer, The Illiad 22.306 - 22.327*
Hippothous (Son of Aigyptos)

Hippothous (Ἱππόθοος) was one of the fifty sons of King Aigyptos. Hippothous' mother was an unnamed arabian woman. The same woman that gave birth to Hippothous bore nine other sons to Aigyptos. In the mass wedding of the sons of Aigyptos to the daughters of Danaus, Hippothous wed Gorge.

## Classical Text

"[The daughters of Danaus married the sons of Aigyptos:] Hippodameia went to Istros, Rhodia to Khalkodon, Kleopatra to Agenor, Asteria to Khaetos, Phylodameia to Diokorystos, Glauke to Alkes, HippoMedusa to Alkmenor, Gorge to Hippothous, IphiMedusa to Eukhenor, and Rhode to Hippolytos. These ten sons had an Arabian mother, while the girls were the daughters variously of Atlanteia and Phoibe, two Hamadryas Nymphai."

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 17 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)
Eidyia

Eidyia was an Okeanid-nymph of the town of Kolkhis in Aia at the eastern end of the Black Sea. She was the wife of King Aeetes and the mother of the witch Medea.

Eidyia's name was derived from the Greek word *eidô* meaning "to see" or "to know." She probably personified the power of the eye which in Greek superstition was the source of a witch's supernatural powers. As an Okeanid-nymph she was presumably also the Naiad of the main well or fountain of Kolkhis--the marriage of founding-king and local Naiad is a common motif in Greek myth.
Glaukos

Glaukos was one of the paneides who were twelve young Panes, goat-legged rustic spirits or gods. The Panes, were, sons of the elder god Pan. They joined Dionysos in his war against the Indians.

## Classical Text

*"Now* [in India] *the hill the summit of which is inhabited by the sages is, according to the account of our travellers, of about the same height as the Akropolis of Athens; and it rises: straight up from the plain, though its natural position equally secures it from attack for the rock surrounds it on all sides. On many parts of this rock you see traces of cloven feet and outlines of beards and of faces, and here and there impressions of backs as of persons who had slipt--and rolled down. For they say that Dionysos, when he was trying to storm the place together with Herakles, ordered the Panes to attack it, thinking that they would be strong enough to take it by assault; but they were thunderstruck by the sages and fell one, one way, and another, another; and the rocks as it were took the print of the various postures in which they fell and failed."*

- Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 3. 13 (trans. Conybeare) (Greek biography C1st to C2nd A.D.)
Elakatas

### Male lover

As a symbol of masculinity and masculinity, Herakles also had a number of male lovers. Plutarch,in *Eroticos,*mentions that Herakles' male lover is very much in number, one of whom is Iolaus of Thebes. Iolaus was Heracles' bodyguard and train rider. Heracles in the end came to find a wife for Iolaus. Plutarch reports that in ancient times, male couples would go to Iolaus' tombs to bind each other's oaths of allegiance. Herakles' other male partner was Hilas, who was also sought by Heracles...

Likurgus also gave a male partner to Herakles, namely Elakatas, who was honored with the establishment of a shrine and realized the annual race. Abderus of Thrakia was also her other lover of Heracles. He died from being eaten by the mare Diomedes. Herakles later founded the city of Abdera in Thrakia and held an athletics competition in memory of Abderus.

His other lover was Ifitus. There is also a story about Herakles' love for Nireus. Ptolemy, however, stated that Nireus was the son of Herakles.

Heracles also had a relationship with Admetus (who helped Herakles in the hunt for the Kalidonia Pig), Adonis; Corithus; and Nestor.