Eurymedon (mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, Eurymedon (grc|Εὐρυμέδων; "ruling far and wide") was the name of several minor figures:

• Eurymedon, in rare accounts, a Titan or Giant who fathered Prometheus after raping Hera.^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Eurymedon, king of the Gigantes, father of Periboea (mother of Nausithous by Poseidon). He brought destruction on his people and was himself destroyed.^[4]
• Eurymedon, one of the Cabiri, children of Hephaestus and Cabiro, a Thracian woman. He was the brother of Alcon. Eurymedon fought in the Indian War of Dionysus but he fled when attacked by Orontes.^{[5] [6]}
• Eurymedon, possible father of Cinyras by the nymph Paphia.^[7]
• Eurymedon, one of the four sons of Minos and his concubine Pareia. His brothers were Nephalion, Chryses and Philolaus. Eurymedon was a resident of the island of Paros in the Cyclades but was slain by the hero Heracles.^[8]
• Eurymedon, son of Dionysus and Ariadne, one of the Argonauts. He was the brother of Phlias.^[9]
• Eurymedon, father of Andromache who was one of the sacrificial victims of the Minotaur.^[10]
• Eurymedon, father of Leanida who consorted with Zeus and became the mother of Coron.
• Eurymedon, defender of the Hypsistan gate at Thebes during the military campaign of the Seven against Thebes. He is the son of Faunus (Pan).^[11]
• Eurymedon, squire and charioteer of Agamemnon. He was the son of Ptolemy (Ptolemaeus), son of Peiraeus.^[12] Eurymedon's tomb was shown at Mycenae.^[13]
• Eurymedon, servant of Nestor.^[14]
• Eurymedon, a surname of Poseidon,^[15] Perseus^[16] and Hermes.^[17]

References

1. Potter, Comment. ad Lyc. Cass. 1283
2. [Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]
3. Scholium on the Iliad 14.295
4. Homer, Odyssey 7.56 ff.
5. [Nonnus]
6. [Cicero]
7. [Scholia]
8. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
9. [Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]
10. [Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]
11. [Statius]
12. Homer, Iliad 4.228
13. Pausanias, 2.16.5
14. Homer, Iliad 8.114 & 11.620
15. Pindar, Olympian Ode 8.31
16. [Apollonius of Rhodes]
17. [Hesychius of Miletus|Hesychius]

Further reading

• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Kaya, Durmuş, and Stephen Mitchell. “The Sanctuary of the God Eurymedon at Tymbriada in Pisidia.” Anatolian Studies, vol. 35, 1985, pp. 39–55. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3642870. Accessed 24 Apr. 2020.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Nature of the Gods from the Treatises of M.T. Cicero translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1812-1891), Bohn edition of 1878. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Natura Deorum. O. Plasberg. Leipzig. Teubner. 1917. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.
• 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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pindar, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.