Eurypyle (mythology)

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Eurypyle my be:

  1. Eurypyle, one of the fifty daughters of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son, Archedicus [1]
  2. Eurypyle, a maenad. She was a follower of Dionysus and was killed by Morrheus. [2]
  3. Eurypyle, an Amazon leader who invaded Ninus and Babylonia, mentioned by Eustathius ad Dion. Per. 772.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Apollodorus, The Library, 2.7.8
  2. ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 30.222
  3. ^ F. A. Ukert, Die Amazonen, Abhandlungen der philosophisch-philologischen Classe der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1849).