Eurydice (Greek myth)

In Greek mythology, Eurydice (/jʊəˈrɪdɪsi/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυδίκη , Eurydikē "wide justice", derived from ευρυς eurys "wide" and δικη dike "justice), may refer to the following characters:

• Eurydice, a Nereid.[1]
• Eurydice, one of the Danaïdes, daughter of Danaus and Polyxo, who married (and murdered) Dryas.[2]
• Eurydice of Argos, daughter of Lacedaemon and mother of Danae by her husband King Acrisius.[3]
• Eurydice, daughter of Adrastus, wife of Ilus, and mother of King Laomedon.[4]
• Eurydice, wife of Neleus, mother of Thrasymedes.[5]
• Eurydice of Mycenae, daughter of Pelops, wife of Electryon, and grandmother of Heracles.[6]
• Eurydice, wife of Orpheus who attempted to bring her back from the Underworld.[7][8]
• Eurydice of Thebes, wife of Creon and mother of Haemon, Menoeceus and Megara.[9]
• Eurydice of Pylos, daughter of Clymenus, wife of Nestor.[10][11]
• Eurydice, daughter of King Amphiaraus of Argos and Eriphyle,[12] and thus, sister to Alcmaeon, Amphilochus, Demonassa, Alcmena[13] and Alexida.[14]
• Eurydice, the wife of King Lycurgus (of Nemea) and mother of Opheltes.[15][16]

Notes

1. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.2.2
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.3
5. Hyginus, Fabulae 97
6. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.9.1
7. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.3.2
8. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.25.1
9. Sophocles, Antigone 1180, 1300 and passim
10. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.9
11. Homer, Odyssey 3.452
12. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.17.7
13. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.17.8
14. Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 23
15. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.14
16. Statius, Thebaid 4.136

References

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