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, father of Leanida who consorted with Zeus and became the mother of Coron.
• 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.

Furteher reading

• Kaya, Durmuş, and Stephen Mitchell. “The Sanctuary of the God Eurymedon at Tymbriada in Pisidia.” Anatolian Studies, vol. 35, 1985, pp. 39–55. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3642870. Accessed 24 Apr. 2020.