Euippe (daughter of Tyrimmas)

In the fragmentary and variant traditions of Greek myth Euippe appears as a daughter of Tyrimmas, king of Dodona. In these genealogical accounts she becomes one of the women by whom the hero Odysseus fathered children in the generation after his wanderings; specifically, she is credited with bearing Odysseus a son named Euryalus. The attestation in modern summaries and reference works (drawing on brief ancient notices and later scholia) treats her primarily as a local royal woman whose liaison with Odysseus serves to connect that hero into the local dynastic and heroic genealogies of Dodona. Ancient witnesses for the broader set of Odysseus’ offspring are multiform (some traditions noted by Parthenius and other summaries), and Euippe of Tyrimmas represents one branch of those variant accounts preserved in secondary compilations and encyclopedic entries.

No physical description of Euippe is preserved in the cited material. The surviving mentions of her occur in short genealogical notices, encyclopedic summaries, and secondary discussions of Odyssean offspring rather than in narrative passages that portray her visually. Consequently, sources record her by name and parentage (daughter of Tyrimmas of Dodona) and by her role as mother of Euryalus, but do not provide details of clothing, physiognomy, age, or other appearance markers.

Sources provide no indication of supernatural abilities, special skills, or magical agency for Euippe. Her recorded function in the tradition is strictly mortal and genealogical: she bears a son by Odysseus (Euryalus) whose later misrecognition and death at his father's hands form the tragic consequence associated with this branch of the Odysseus family-cycle. No powers, cult, or ritual role are attested in the available material.