Eurypyle Explained

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. Book: Arrian in Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum, vol. III. 595.
2. [Conon (mythographer)|Conon]
3. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
4. [Diodorus Siculus]
5. Apollodorus, 2.4.9.
6. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
7. Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
8. [Athenaeus]
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]

References

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• 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. . 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