Euaemon appears as a conventional mythic personal name across multiple Greek narrative traditions rather than originating in a single foundational tale. In Plato's Critias he is named as one of the ten sons of Poseidon and Cleito who become heads of the ten royal houses of Atlantis, each ruling a tenth of the island under the supreme rule of the eldest, Atlas. In Arcadian mythographic tradition he is listed among the fifty sons of King Lycaon who are punished by Zeus for impiety and slain by the god's lightning. In Homeric genealogical contexts he is attested as the father of Eurypylus of Ormenion, a leader in the Trojan War cycle. Separately, Stephanus of Byzantium records a place-name Euaemon (a city) though no further locational details are provided in the surviving excerpt.
The available sources offer no physical description or iconography for Euaemon as an individuated figure. He is attested only as a name in genealogical lists, epic patronymics, and as a toponym; therefore the tradition furnishes no reliable information about appearance or visual attributes.
Classical and later summaries do not attribute supernatural powers or habitual behaviours to Euaemon. His roles in the sources are social and genealogical: as one of Poseidon's sons he is given a titular, civic function (head of a royal house in the Atlantis partition), as one of Lycaon's sons he is counted among impious kin destroyed by divine retribution, and as father of Eurypylus he serves as a patronymic identifier in Homeric epic. No personal agency beyond these narrative and genealogical functions is described in the cited materials.
Weaknesses
- otherNo weaknesses attested in sources
Wards
- otherNo wards attested in sources
Eurypylus
Eurypylus (Ancient Greek: Εὐρύπυλος, 'wide-gated') is an anthroponym in Greek myth borne by several distinct mortal or semi-divine figures — kings, princes, and warriors — attested across regional heroic-age narratives (Thessaly, Mysia, Cos, Thebes, Tiryns) and the Trojan War cycle. The name functions genealogically and narratively rather than as a single supernatural being.
Poseidon
Poseidon is a principal deity of the ancient Greek pantheon, counted among the Twelve Olympians; he presides over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses and functions as protector of seafarers and guardian of cities and colonies.
Abderus
Abderus (Ancient Greek: Ἄβδηρος, romanized Ábdēros) is a mortal heroic figure in Greek myth closely associated with Heracles, remembered as the youth left in charge of the Mares of Diomedes who was killed by them. He functions as an eponymous local/divine-hero ancestor for the city of Abdera and received funerary commemoration and athletic agones at his tomb.
Acamas
Acamas (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάμας) is a personal name recurrent in ancient Greek narrative traditions applied to multiple human characters (warriors, princes, suitors), once to a Cyclops, and once as a hound's name. Rather than a single supernatural entity, bearers of the name appear episodically across the Trojan War, Theseid, and Theban cycles as mortal actors whose deeds intersect with gods and fate.
Acarnan
Acarnan (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαρνάν) is an anthroponym attested in Greek mythic and epic tradition as the name of at least two distinct mortal figures: a son of Alcmaeon and Callirrhoe, and a human suitor of Penelope from Dulichium. The lexical form also appears adjectivally/ethnically (Acarnanian), linking the word to the region Acarnania; etymologically the name is reported as derived from a Greek fish-name (akarnan).
Acastus
Acastus is a mortal heroic figure of ancient Greek tradition: son of Pelias who became king of Iolcus, an Argonaut who sailed with Jason, and an actor in the post-Argonautic cycle involving Medea, Peleus, and the aftermath of Pelias’s death. He is attested as performing civic and ritual actions (burying Pelias, instituting funeral games, purifying Peleus) and as a participant in vendetta episodes that end in violent reprisals.
Acessamenus
Acessamenus (Ancient Greek: Ἀκεσσάμενος, Akessamenos) is attested in Greek sources as a mortal king of Pieria and the eponymous founder of a Macedonian place called Akesamenai. He appears in Homeric genealogy as the father of Periboea, whose union with the river-god Axius links Acessamenus into the ancestry of the hero Asteropaios.
Achaeans (Homer)
In Homeric epic, 'the Achaeans' (Ancient Greek: Ἀχαιοί, Akhaioí) is a collective ethnonym used to refer to the Greek peoples as a single grouped human contingent—the army of Greeks in the Trojan War narratives such as the Iliad and the Odyssey. The term functions as a poetic designation for human actors within the moral, social, and military universe of Homeric poetry rather than as a supernatural class of beings.
Acmon
Acmon (Ancient Greek: Ἄκμων, 'anvil') is a polyvalent personal name in Greek myth borne by several distinct minor figures — a Dactyl (artisan), a Phrygian eponymous king, a mischievous woodland creature, companions in epic cycles (one companion of Diomedes transformed into a bird; an Aenead), and in some brief traditions an alleged father of Uranus. The name therefore functions across artisanal, topographical, trickster, and metamorphosis motifs rather than denoting a single unified supernatural species.
Acrisius
Acrisius (Ancient Greek: Ἀκρίσιος, Akrisios) is a mythic-historical king of Argos in Greek tradition whose narrative is defined by an oracular prophecy foretelling his death by his daughter's son. He is portrayed as a mortal ruler entangled with dynastic rivalry, oracular authority, and the eventual accidental fulfillment of fate.
Aeacidae
The Aeacidae are a dynastic lineage in Greek myth and historiography descended from the hero Aeacus, son of Zeus and the nymph Aegina. The name functions as a patronymic designation for those 'of Aeacus' and is used to claim genealogical legitimacy and political prestige in regions such as Aegina and Molossian Epirus.
Aegipan
Aegipan (Αἰγίπαν / Αἰγίπανος) is an ancient Greek mythological figure associated with goat attributes and with the sea‑goat imagery of the constellation Capricornus. He appears in classical myth as a semi‑divine helper (notably in the Typhon episode) and, in later natural‑history and medieval bestiary reception, the name is applied to satyr‑like or ape‑like wild men in distant lands.
Aegisthus
Aegisthus (Greek Αἴγισθος, Aigisthos) is a mortal member of the House of Atreus in Greek myth who, born of incestuous circumstances and raised by shepherds and a goat, participates in dynastic murder and usurpation — notably the slaying of Atreus in some accounts and the conspiracy (with Clytemnestra) that results in Agamemnon's death — and is later killed by Orestes, an episode that figures in narratives about inherited guilt, vengeance, and the transition from private retribution to public justice.
Aeolus
Aeolus is a name applied to multiple related figures in Greek myth: an eponymous son of Hellen (founder of the Aeolian people), a son of Poseidon who led colonial ventures to Tyrrhenian islands, and a son of Hippotes depicted in epic as a ruler or keeper of the winds. Ancient mythographers note confusion and overlap among these persons.
Community Record
- [1]Euaemon. Wikipedia article 'Euaemon'wiki
- [2]Eurypylus (son of Euaemon). Wikipedia article 'Eurypylus (son of Euaemon)'wiki
- [3]The Iliad, by Homer (online editions and indices). Homer, The Iliad (online editions referenced for patronymic occurrences)literary
- [4]The Project Gutenberg E-text of The Iliad of Homer. Project Gutenberg / public-domain edition of The Iliad (used for citation of Homeric usages)literary
- [5]Evaemon (Euaemon) — Atlantipedia entry. Atlantipedia entry summarizing classical mentionsother
- [6]Wikidata: Evaemon. Wikidata item for Evaemon / Euaemonother
- [7]Stephanus of Byzantium (entry recorded in lexica). Stephanus of Byzantium cited via modern summaries as attesting a city named Euaemonother