Eurynome
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Eurynomê (Εὐρυνόμη, from ευρύς eurys "broad" + νομός nomos "pasture" or νόμος "law") is a name that refers to the following characters in Greek mythology:
- Eurynome (Oceanid), a divine figure of the pre-Olympian generation
- Eurynome or Eurymede, daughter of King Nisus of Megara and mother of Bellerophon by Poseidon[1][2].
- Eurynome, mother by the Persian Orchamus of Leucothoe whom Helios loved.[3].
- Eurynome or Cleophyle, wife of Lycurgus of Arcadia and mother of Amphidamas, Epochus, Ancaeus, and Iasus[4]. Elswhere is also called Antinoe[5].
- Eurynome, daughter of Iphitus and mother of Adrastus of Argos by Talaus[6].
- Eurynome, waiting woman of Penelope in the Odyssey[7].
- Eurynome, a handmaiden of Harmonia[8].
- Eurynome, a Lemnian woman. The goddess Pheme paid a visit to her in the guise of her friend Neaera to inform her that Eurynome's husband Codrus was being unfaithful to her with a Thracian woman[9].
- Eurynome, an alternate name for Eidothea, the daughter of Proteus[10].
- Eurynome, a daughter of Asopus and mother of Ogygias by Zeus, according to a late source[11].
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[edit] References
- ^ Hesiod, Catalogue of Women, fragment 7 (Loeb edition, 1914)
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 157
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 208ff
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3.9.2.
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 164.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 70
- ^ Homer, Odyssey, 17. 495
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 41. 312
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 2. 136 ff
- ^ Zenodotus in scholia on Odyssey, 4. 366
- ^ Clement of Alexandria, Recognitiones, 10. 21
