In
Greek mythology,
Eurypyle (
Ancient Greek: Εὐρυπύλη) may refer to the following personages:
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Eurypyle, an Amazons queen.
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Eurypyle, another name for Eurycyda.
[Conon, Narrations 14; Scholia on Homer, Iliad 11.688; Etymologicum Magnum 426.20]
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Eurypyle, a Thespiae princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede
[Apollodorus, 2.4.10; John Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222] or by one of his many wives.[Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,[Apollodorus, 2.4.9.] Eurypyle with her other sisters, except for one,[Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51] all laid with the hero in a night,[Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)] a week[Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51] or for 50 days[Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3] Eurypyle bore Heracles a son, Archedicus.[Apollodorus, 2.7.8]
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Eurypyle, a maenad.
[Nonnus, 30.222]
Notes
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Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Nonnus, 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.
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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.
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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
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Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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John Tzetzes, 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
