Eurypyle

In Greek mythology, Eurypyle (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυπύλη) may refer to the following personages:

  • Eurypyle, an Amazon queen.[1]
  • Eurypyle, another name for Eurycyda.[2]
  • Eurypyle, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede[3] or by one of his many wives.[4] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,[5] Eurypyle with her other sisters, except for one,[6] all laid with the hero in a night,[7] a week[8] or for 50 days[9] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[10] Eurypyle bore Heracles a son, Archedicus.[11]
  • Eurypyle, a maenad.[12]

Notes

  1. ^ Arrian in Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum, vol. III. p. 595.
  2. ^ Conon, Narrations 14; Scholia on Homer, Iliad 11.688; Etymologicum Magnum 426.20
  3. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
  4. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
  5. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9.
  6. ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  7. ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
  8. ^ Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  9. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
  10. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
  11. ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8
  12. ^ Nonnus, 30.222

References

  • Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website
  • Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
  • Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available 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, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com


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