Eurymedousa

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Eurymedousa or Eurymedusa (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυμέδουσα) is a name attributed to several women in Greek mythology.

  • Eurymedousa, daughter of Cletor[1] or Achelous. Zeus approached and seduced her in the form of an ant,[2] she may also have been transformed into an ant.[3] As a result, she gave birth to Myrmidon.
  • Eurymedousa, an old woman from Apeire and the nanny and attendant of Nausicaa.[4]
  • According to Cornutus, Eurymedousa was a possible mother of the Charites by Zeus.[5]
  • Eurymedousa, a daughter of Aetolus and possibly the mother of Oeneus by Porthaon.[6]
  • Eurymedousa, daughter of Polyxenus, one of the would-be sacrificial victims of Minotaur rescued by Theseus.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 2. p.41 (p. 34)
  2. ^ Clement of Alexandria, Exhortations Book 2
  3. ^ Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.22
  4. ^ Homer, Odyssey 7.1
  5. ^ Cornutus, Compendium Theologiae Graecae 15 (Torres, pp. 15–6).
  6. ^ Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 133
  7. ^ Servius on Aeneid 6.21

References

  • Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
  • 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.
  • Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theoi.com
  • Titus Flavius Clemens, Exhortation against the Pagans translated by Butterworth, G W. Loeb Classical Library Volume 92. Cambridge, MA. Harvard Universrity Press. 1919. Online version at theoi.com
  • Torres, José B., Lucius Annaeus Cornutus: Compendium de Graecae Theologiae traditionibus, Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2018.Online version at De Gruyter.
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