Eurymedousa

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

• Eurymedousa, daughter of Cletor or Achelous. Zeus approached and seduced her in the form of an ant,[1] she may also have been transformed into an ant.[2] As a result, she gave birth to Myrmidon.
• Eurymedousa, an old woman from Apeire and the nanny and attendant of Nausicaa.[3]
• Eurymedousa, possible mother of the Charites by Zeus.[4]
• Eurymedousa, a daughter of Aetolus and possibly the mother of Oeneus by Porthaon.[5]
• Eurymedousa, daughter of Polyxenus, one of the would-be sacrificial victims of Minotaur rescued by Theseus.[6]

References

1. Clement. Exhortation to the Greeks, Book 2.
2. Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10, 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