Eurygone

Lesserfolk-consensusAncient Greek (Homeric)Classical commentary (Tzetzes)Lipara (Aeolian islands)Greek world (Homeric tradition)

Eurygone (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυγόνη) is a figure in the Homeric tradition recorded as a daughter of Aeolus of Lipara. She appears in genealogical lists within the Odyssey tradition and later scholia/commentary (e.g., Tzetzes) as one of the children yoked in marriage within Aeolus's household to preserve familial concord.

Origin

Eurygone is attested as a daughter of King Aeolus of Lipara in the Homeric tradition and subsequent commentary. In the Odyssey tradition Aeolus is presented as keeper of the winds; Eurygone's origin is given genealogically as part of his household. Later allegorical and scholastic writers (such as John Tzetzes) preserve and comment on the same genealogical material. The sources present her as a member of Aeolus's family rather than as an independently active mythic protagonist.

Appearance

No physical description of Eurygone is preserved in the surviving sources. The Homeric passages and the scholia/commentary that list Aeolus's children do not provide details of her appearance (Homer; Tzetzes as cited in summary sources).

Abilities

The surviving attestations attribute no individual supernatural powers, deeds, or peculiar behaviours to Eurygone. She appears only within genealogical lists and is reported among the daughters whom Aeolus 'yoked in marriage' to his sons to preserve concord and affection in the household; the source material does not credit her with control of winds or other cosmological functions independent of her father.

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Sources
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    Eurygone - Wikipedia. Wikipedia, article 'Eurygone' (summarizing Homer, Odyssey, and Tzetzes's Allegories of the Odyssey)wiki
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