Eurycleia (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Eurycleia (Ancient Greek: Εὐρύκλεια Eurýkleia) or Euryclia may refer to the following women:

• Eurycleia, nurse of Odysseus.[1]
• Eurycleia, daughter of Athamas and Themisto,[2] and thus, sister to Leucon, Erythrius, Schoeneus, and Ptous.[3][4][5] She became the mother of Hyperes by Melas, son of Phrixus and Chalciope,[6][7]

Notes

1. Homer, Odyssey 1.429 ff.
2. Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.221
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.2
4. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1144
5. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 22
6. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.1
7. Hyginus, Fabulae 3

References

• 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 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.
• 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.