The name Eurydamas functions as an ordinary personal name attached to several independent mortal characters across Greek narrative cycles rather than a single origin tale. In classical compilations and summaries he appears as one of the sons of Aegyptus who were slain on their wedding night by the Danaids (the Aegyptus/Danaus story), as an Argonaut — a Thessalian hero from Ctimene who sails with Jason to Colchis (lists of Argonauts), and in multiple, sometimes conflicting Trojan-cycle roles: a son of Pelias who participates in the stratagem of the Trojan Horse, an elder of Troy and interpreter of dreams (father of Abas and Polyidus in one source whose sons are killed by Diomedes), a son-in-law of Antenor in another tradition, and separately as one of the suitors of Penelope who gives her a pair of earrings and is slain by Odysseus. The supplied materials treat these as variant traditions that share a common name rather than facets of a single continuous biography (sources: collected mythographic lists and summaries).
No supplied source gives a consistent corporeal description for any bearer of the name. Physical features (height, hair, clothing, distinguishing marks) are not recorded in the provided texts. Instead, appearances are identified by social and role markers: a princely origin when listed among the sons of Aegyptus, a Thessalian heroic provenance when named among the Argonauts (from Ctimene), the social standing of an elder when described within Trojan accounts, and the theatrical casting as "a young man from the city Cnossus in Crete" in an 1819 singspiel (a modern stage adaptation). These descriptors situate each Eurydamas within a social milieu but do not supply an iconographic or physical type.
The supplied sources attribute no inherent supernatural powers to any Eurydamas; they are portrayed as mortal participants in mythic events. Their notable behaviors are narrative and social: one is a victim in the Danaids' wedding-night massacre; one participates as an Argonaut in Jason's expedition (lists only, no individual exploits detailed in the provided excerpts); several are involved in Trojan-cycle actions including concealment within the Trojan Horse and membership among elders, and one tradition describes an elder Eurydamas as an interpreter of dreams (a culturally significant human skill). Beyond this role as a dream-interpreter in one account, the texts give no evidence of magical, divine, or ongoing supernatural abilities.
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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.
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.
Aepytus
Aepytus (Ancient Greek: Αἴπυτος, Aíputos/Aípytos, lit. 'steep, high, lofty') is a personal name in Greek myth borne by several legendary kings tied to Arcadian and Heraclid genealogies. The figures named Aepytus function as ancestral/dynastic nodes in literary genealogies and later literary receptions rather than as supernatural beings.
Aeson
Aeson (Ancient Greek: Αἴσων) is a legendary mortal king of Iolcus in Thessaly in Greek myth, best known as the father of the hero Jason. His fate—imprisonment by his half-brother Pelias and either suicide or a miraculous restoration performed by Medea—provides the dynastic and moral background for the Argonautic cycle.
Aethalides
Aethalides is a personal name borne by two distinct figures in ancient Greek myth: one listed among the Argonauts as a son of Hermes and Eupolemeia, and another named among the Tyrrhenian sailors who attempted to deceive Dionysus and was transformed into a dolphin. The sources treat Aethalides as named human mythic personages appearing in separate narrative contexts rather than as a class of supernatural being.
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- [1]Eurydamas (Wikipedia summary compiled from classical sources). Wikipedia: Eurydamas — summary of classical attestations (Aegyptus/Danaids, Argonauts, Trojan-cycle, suitors of Penelope).wiki
- [2]Phädon und Naide, oder: Der redende Baum: ein Singspiel in zwey Aufzügen (cast list). 1819 singspiel cast listing showing a theatrical character "Eurydamas, ein junger Mann aus der Stadt Cnossus in Kreta" (Eurydamas, a young man from Cnossus in Crete).literary
- [3]Manifest of passengers arriving in the St. Albans, VT District through Canadian Pacific, and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954 [microform] (metadata). Passenger manifest metadata listing a vessel named "SS EURYDAMAS" (Aug. 29, 1920).other
- [4]LP0078 - IV ARGONAUTS - The Argonauts Assembled; The Fables of Hyginus (audio/notes). Argument and lists referencing Hyginus' list of Argonauts in which an individual named Eurydamas is included.literary