Ctimene

Ctimene appears in Homeric genealogies as a daughter of Laertes and Anticlea, reared in the household of Laertes on Ithaca. In the Odyssey she is said to have been raised alongside the swineherd Eumaeus and later sent in marriage to Same (receiving a splendid dowry), forming part of the household and political alliances reflected in epic-age marriage practices (Odyssey 15.361–379).

Homeric and related lexicographic sources give no physical description of Ctimene. The surviving references record social actions — being raised in Laertes's household, reared alongside the servant Eumaeus, and being sent in marriage to Same — rather than bodily traits. Her presence in the texts is thus defined by household context and familial position rather than appearance.

Sources portray Ctimene as a mortal human and an Ithacan princess with no divine or magical attributes. Her recorded behaviors are social and domestic: she was raised in her father's oikos, treated almost as an equal to the servant Eumaeus while in the household, and was married to Eurylochus, a union described in the sources primarily in terms of alliance and dowry rather than personal agency or supernatural action.