Eurymedousa
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Eurymedousa or Eurymedusa ({{langx|grc|Εὐρυμέδουσα}}) is a name attributed to several women in Greek mythology.
- Eurymedousa, daughter of CletorClement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 2. p.41 (p. 34) or Achelous. Zeus approached and seduced her in the form of an ant.Clement of Alexandria, Exhortations [http://www.theoi.com/Text/ClementExhortation1.html Book 2]Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions [http://www.theoi.com/Text/ClementRecognitions.html 10.22] As a result, she gave birth to Myrmidon.
- Eurymedousa, an old woman from Apeire and the nanny and attendant of Nausicaa.Homer, Odyssey [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HomerOdyssey7.html 7.1]
- According to Cornutus, Eurymedousa was a possible mother of the Charites by Zeus.Cornutus, Compendium Theologiae Graecae 15 (Torres, pp. 15–6).
- Eurymedousa, a daughter of Aetolus and possibly the mother of Oeneus by Porthaon.Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 133
- Eurymedousa, daughter of Polyxenus, one of the would-be sacrificial victims of Minotaur rescued by Theseus.Servius on Aeneid 6.21
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References
- 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. {{ISBN|978-0674995611|}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0136 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0135 Greek text available from the same website].
- 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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0053 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
- Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/ClementRecognitions.html Online version at theoi.com]
- Titus Flavius Clemens, Exhortation against the Pagans translated by Butterworth, G W. Loeb Classical Library Volume 92. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1919. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/ClementExhortation1.html Online version at theoi.com]
- Torres, José B., Lucius Annaeus Cornutus: Compendium de Graecae Theologiae traditionibus, Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2018.[https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110350449 Online version at De Gruyter].
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