Eurynome is attested in genealogical accounts as the daughter of King Nisus of Megara, placing her in the royal house of Megara. Sources identify her as sister to figures such as Scylla and Iphinoe and as a marital link to Corinthian rulership: she is recorded as wife (or spouse-figure) to Glaucus of Corinth. In multiple accounts she is named the mother of the hero Bellerophon, commonly said to be fathered by the sea‑god Poseidon, though Glaucus functions as the human royal father in household narratives. These relationships situate Eurynome within the heroic/pre-Trojan-War generation in Greek mythic chronology (sources: genealogical summaries and dramatic adaptation).
Ancient sources and the supplied materials do not provide a physical description of Eurynome. She is represented through relational and narrative roles — daughter, sister, wife, mother — and in literary contexts appears as a figure associated with palace/domestic life (one Homeric passage names an elder household woman Eurynome speaking in a palace scene, though that passage is not explicitly identified as the same Megarian princess). Thus her depiction is principally social and genealogical rather than visual.
No supernatural powers or magical functions are ascribed to Eurynome in the provided materials. Her 'abilities' in the narrative sense are domestic and dynastic: bearing and raising offspring (most notably Bellerophon), linking royal houses through marriage, and performing the social role expected of an elder royal woman within household contexts. The sources emphasise her role in transmitting divine paternity (through Poseidon) into human royal lineage rather than any personal divine agency.
Glaucus
In classical Greek myth, Glaucus is a former mortal fisherman who became a sea-associated divine figure after contact with a magical herb. He is portrayed as a prophetic sea-being who dwells among the Nereids, is consulted by sailors and voyagers for prophecy, and appears in episodic myths (Argonauts, Menelaus, the Scylla/Circe cycle).
Bellerophon
Bellerophon is a heroic figure of ancient Greek tradition, famed as a slayer of monsters and the tamer of Pegasus. Various accounts present him as of mixed divine and mortal lineage and as an exemplar of heroic achievement enabled by divine aid and constrained by social-ritual norms.
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.
*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
Péh₂usōn is a hypothetical Proto‑Indo‑European pastoral guardian reconstructed by comparative scholars from parallels in Greek and Vedic traditions. Proposed as a Graeco‑Aryan ancestor‑figure, the reconstruction describes a protector of flocks, roads, and travellers rather than an attested historical cultic personality.
Aba (disambiguation / name-form)
Aba is a polyvalent name-form attested across many unrelated contexts (place names, personal names, animal names, and brief mythological listings). The provided sources do not support a single, coherent supernatural entity called "Aba" and offer no descriptive or ritual material for such a being.
Abarbarea
Abarbarea is a name attested in classical Greek and Roman sources for freshwater nymphs (naiads). The name appears for at least two individual mythic figures — a naiad wife of Bucolion and a naiad counted among ancestors of the Tyrians — and Hesychius records plural forms that may indicate the name was also used as a class-name (Abarbareai / Abarbalaiai).
Abas
Abas (Ancient Greek: Ἄβας, gen.: Ἄβαντος) is not a single mythic being but a recurring personal name borne by multiple mortals and minor mythic figures in Greek epic and genealogical traditions — kings, founders, seers, warriors, attendants, a centaur, and a youth transformed by a goddess. The name is glossed in the sources as 'guileless' or 'good-hearted' and appears across Argive, Theban, Trojan, Euboean, and other local cycles.
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.
Abomination of Desolation
An apocalyptic prophetic phrase originating in the Book of Daniel designating a profaning thing or act that renders the Jerusalem Temple cult desolate; later reused in the Synoptic Gospels as an eschatological sign prompting urgent flight. The term denotes ritual/cultic impurity (Hebrew shiqquts) and is variously interpreted as pagan offerings or altar, a foreign cult statue, or (in some New Testament readings) an acting agent.
Absyrtus
Absyrtus (Ancient Greek: Ἄψυρτος) is a Colchian prince in the Greek Argonautic cycle, son of King Aeëtes and brother or half-brother of Medea. He appears in variant traditions either as a companion taken by Medea during her flight with Jason and murdered/dismembered to delay pursuit, or as a pursuer sent by Aeëtes who is overtaken and slain by Jason; his death functions as a key narrative device in the escape from Colchis.
Acacallis
Acacallis (Ancient Greek: Ἀκακαλλίς; also Acalle) is a mythological princess of Crete in Greek tradition, daughter of King Minos and Pasiphae. She functions primarily as a dynastic and etiological figure: in varying accounts she is mother, by gods such as Hermes (Mercury) or Apollo, of eponymous or founder-figures like Cydon (founder of Cydonia), Miletus, or Lydon/ Lydus.
Acacus
Acacus (Ancient Greek: Ἄκακος) is, in Arcadian Greek tradition, a mortal eponymous founder-king of Acacesium and is remembered as the foster-father who reared the infant Hermes (Mercury) in that local tradition. He is presented in genealogies as a son of Lycaon and functions as a local ancestral/onomastic figure rather than a supernatural spirit.
Academus
Academus (Greek: Akádemos / Hekádemos) is an Attic hero-eponym tied to a sacred grove (Akademeia) on the Cephissus near Athens. In myth he revealed where Helen was hidden to the Dioskouroi, an act said to have saved the city, and the place bearing his name became a long-lived sacred precinct, later the site of Plato's Academy.
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.
Acantha
Acantha (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάνθα, 'thorn') is a late or secondary mythological figure known from modern retellings as a nymph transformed into the acanthus plant. The tale that she scratched Apollo and was changed into a spiny-leaved plant is not attested in surviving classical corpora and appears to be a modern compilation or invention rather than a firmly documented ancient myth.
Community Record
- [1]Eurynome (daughter of Nisus) - Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 'Eurynome (daughter of Nisus)'wiki
- [2]Eurynome of Megara - Wikipedia (summary). Wikipedia summary noting Eurynome as a Megarian princess who became queen of Corinthwiki
- [3]Nisos - Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 'Nisos' (identifies Eurynome as his daughter and mother of Bellerophon by Poseidon)wiki
- [4]Βελλεροφόντης ('Bellerophon') - lyrical theatre drama (archive). Modern Greek lyrical theatre adaptation discussing tradition that Bellerophon is son of Poseidon and Eurynome (or Eurymede), daughter of the king of Megaraliterary
- [5]King Nisus in Greek Mythology - Greek Legends and Myths. Popular mythology summary noting Nisus's daughter Eurynome and her relation to Bellerophonfolk
- [6]Princess Scylla in Greek Mythology - Greek Legends and Myths. Popular mythology page referencing Scylla as sister within Nisus's family (context for Eurynome's sibling relations)folk
- [7]The Odyssey - Homer (text reference). Homer, Odyssey (passage cited where a woman named Eurynome speaks in a palace domestic exchange; identification with Eurynome of Megara is uncertain in sources)literary
- [8]Bellerophon: The Tragic Hero of Greek Mythology | History Cooperative. Article discussing Bellerophon's parentage and traditions that name Poseidon and Eurynome as his parentsother
- [9]Megara - Greek Mythology Link. Regional myth summary connecting Nisus, Megara, and genealogical figures including Eurynomeother