Eurymedon (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Eurymedon (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυμέδοντα "ruling far and wide") was the name of several minor figures:

• Eurymedon. in rare accounts, a Titan who fathered Prometheus by Hera.^[1]
• Eurymedon, king of the Gigantes, father of Periboea (mother of Nausithous by Poseidon). He brought destruction on his people and was himself destroyed.^[2]
• Eurymedon, one of the Cabiri, children of Hephaestus and Cabiro, a Thracian woman. He was the brother of Alcon. Eurymedon fought in the Indian War of Dionysus but he fled when attacked by Orontes.^[3]
• Eurymedon, possible father of Cinyras by the nymph Paphia.^[4]
• Eurymedon, one of the four sons of Minos and his concubine Pareia. His brothers were Nephalion, Chryses and Philolaus. Eurymedon was a resident of the island of Paros in the Cyclades but was slain by the hero Heracles.^[5]
• Eurymedon, son of Dionysus and Ariadne, one of the Argonauts.^[6]
• Eurymedon, father of Andromache who was one of sacrificial victims of Minotaur.^[7]
• Eurymedon, defender of the Hypsistan gate at Thebes during the military campaign of the Seven Against Thebes. He is the son of Faunus (Pan).^[8]
• Eurymedon, squire and charioteer of Agamemnon. He was the son of Ptolemy (Ptolemaeus), son of Peiraeus.^[9] Eurymedon's tomb was shown at Mycenae.^[10]
• Eurymedon, servant of Nestor.^[11]
• Eurymedon, a surname of Poseidon^[12], Perseus^[13] and Hermes^[14].

References

1. ↑ Potter, Comment. ad Lyc. Cass. 1283; Eustathius, ad Homer, p. 987
2. ↑ Homer. Odyssey, Book 7.56ff
3. ↑ Nonnus. Dionysiaca, Book 14.22; Cicero. De Natura Deorum, 3.21.
4. ↑ Scholia, ad Pindar, Pythian Ode, 2 28
5. ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 2.5.9 & 3.1.2
6. ↑ Hyginus. Fabulae 14
7. ↑ Servius on Aeneid, 16. 4
8. ↑ Statius. Thebaid, 7.262, 8.356, & 11.32
9. ↑ Homer. Iliad, Book 4.228
10. ↑ Pausanias. Description of Greece, 2.16.5.
11. ↑ Homer. Iliad, Book 8.114 & 11.620
12. ↑ Pindar. Olympian Ode, 8.31
13. ↑ Apollonius of Rhodes. Argonautica, Book 4.1514
14. ↑ Hesychius. s. v.