Eudora (mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, Eudora or Eudore (Ancient Greek: Εὐδώρη^[1] means 'early' or 'leading'^[2] or 'she of good gifts'^[3]) was a name given to three nymphs:

• Eudora, one of 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.^[4]
• Eudora, the Nereid of sailing and a good fish-catch.^[5] She was one of the 50 sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[6]
• Eudora, called "long-robed" in a Hesiodic fragment, was one of the Hyades, the nymphs associated with the configuration of stars known as the Hyades.^[7] She was the sister of Aesyle (Phaisyle) and Ambrosia,^[8] Polyxo and Coronis,^[9] and Cleeia and Phaeo.^[10] They were called the daughters of the Titan Atlas by either the Oceanids Aethra^[11] or Pleione,^[12] or of Hyas and Boeotia.^[13]

References

• Bane, Theresa, Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology, McFarland, 2013. .
• 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.
• Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Hyginus, Gaius Julius, Astronomica, in The Myths of Hyginus, edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hyginus, Gaius Julius, Fabulae, in The Myths of Hyginus, edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
• Most, G.W., Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments, Loeb Classical Library, No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2007, 2018. . Online version at Harvard University Press.
• Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1867). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library

Notes and References

1. Smith, s.v. Eudora.
2. Bane, p. 130.
3. Book: [[Kerényi]], Carl. The Gods of the Greeks. Thames and Hudson. 1951. London. 41, 64.
4. [Hesiod]
5. Book: Bane, Theresa. Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. 2013. 9780786471119. 130.
6. Hesiod, Theogony 243; Apollodorus, 1.2.7
7. [Hyginus]
8. [Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]
9. Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.1 with Asclepiades as the authority
10. Scholium on Aratus' Phenomena = Hesiod fr. 227a Most, pp. 300, 301 = Hesiod fr. 291 MW.
11. Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.4 with Musaeus as the authority
12. Hyginus, Fabulae 192
13. Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.4 with Alexander as the authority