Eurymedousa

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Eurymedousa (or Eurymedusa; Greek Εὐρυμέδουσα) is a name attributed to several women in Greek mythology.

  • Eurymedousa, daughter of Cletor or Achelous. Zeus changed her into an ant and then raped her, also impregnating her. As a result, she gave birth to Myrmidon.[1][2]
  • Eurymedousa, an old woman from Apeire and the nanny and attendant of Nausicaa.[3]
  • Eurymedousa, possible mother of the Charites by Zeus.[4]

References

  1. Clement. Exhortation to the Greeks, Book 1.
  2. Clement. Recognitions, Chapter XXII.
  3. Homer. Odyssey, 7.1.
  4. Cornutus Compendium Theologiae Graecae, 15
  5. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 133
  6. Servius on Aeneid, 6. 21


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