Multiple distinct women named Eurythemis appear in Greek mythographic traditions. In the genealogical account preserved by mythographers (summarized from Apollodorus), Eurythemis, daughter of Cleoboea, is wife of King Thestius of Pleuron and mother of children including Althaea and Leda, linking her to the houses of Calydon and Sparta. John Tzetzes preserves a variant in which a Eurythemis is daughter of Acastus and consort of Actor, mother of Ancaeus. A further tradition names an Eurythemis daughter of Timandreus, sister of Cotto, who with her sister was honored by the Heracleidae. These attestations are genealogical nodes rather than narrative origin myths; they reflect variant local and literary traditions rather than a single authoritative life story.
Ancient sources provide no physical description of Eurythemis. She is known only by name within genealogical lists and literary summaries; surviving materials do not record attributes of dress, form, or visage for her.
No supernatural abilities, powers, or distinctive ritual functions are ascribed to Eurythemis in the cited materials. Her role is social and genealogical: as wife, mother, and daughter she serves to locate better-known figures (for example Leda and Althaea) within familial networks that explain descent and alliance in the heroic age.
Amphidocus
Amphidocus (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίδοκος) is attested in classical sources as a son of Orchomenus of Minyan Orchomenus and brother to Clymenus and Aspledon. He appears in genealogical lists tying local eponyms and founders to a royal lineage in Boeotia; beyond this genealogy the sources provide no sustained myths, cult, or ritual around him.
Anaxo
Anaxo (Ancient Greek Ἀναξώ) is a proper name applied to mortal women in ancient Greek mythic genealogies and narratives. Attested figures named Anaxo appear as a Mycenaean princess—daughter of Alcaeus, wife of Electryon, and mother of Alcmene—and as a young woman from Troezen who was carried off by the hero Theseus. The name carries a lexical sense of female authority in Greek but denotes human participants in dynastic and abduction cycles rather than a supernatural class.
Astydameia
Astydameia (Ancient Greek Ἀστυδάμεια) is not a single supernatural being but an ancient Greek personal name borne by several mortal women in mythic tradition — queens, wives, and mothers who appear as genealogical and narrative nodes in the heroic age (figures associated with Peleus, Heracles, Acastus, Pelops, etc.). The name literally evokes civic rulership, and the bearers act within social and political roles rather than as spirits or deities.
Cercetes
Cercetes (Ancient Greek: Κερκέτης) is a named Egyptian prince in Greek mythic genealogy, recorded as one of the fifty sons of King Aegyptus who married (and was slain by) one of the Danaïdes. He is attested in mythographic catalogues such as the Bibliotheca and preserved in modern summaries like Wikipedia.
Ceteus
Ceteus (Ancient Greek Κητεύς, romanized Kêteus) is a name borne by at least two mythic figures in Greek literatures: an Arcadian prince counted among the sons of King Lycaon and a commander listed among the Lamian Centaurs who join Dionysus in his Indian campaign. The name appears in genealogical catalogues and epic lists rather than as a recurring supernatural class.
Cyllen
Cyllen (also attested as Cyllene in place-name forms) is an eponymous figure in Greek mythographic and topographic tradition credited with giving his name to Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. He appears in genealogical lists of Arcadian heroes and functions primarily as an etiological ancestor in local myth rather than as a richly characterized deity or monster.
Demonassa
Demonassa (Ancient Greek: Δημώνασσα) is not a supernatural being in the supplied sources but a personal name attested to several mortal women in Greek mythographic and literary traditions and later reused in biological taxonomy. Attestations include multiple mythic genealogical figures, a rhetorical anecdote of a Cypriot lawgiver, and later literary stock-character uses (notably Corinthian sexualized roles). The same lexical form is also applied in modern zoological nomenclature (a beetle genus and insect species epithets).
Dotia
Dotia (Ancient Greek: Δωτίας; variants Δωτίς/Δωτίδος) is an eponymous ancestress in Greek mythic-genealogical tradition, cited as the name-source for the Dotian plain and the city Dotion (Dotium) in Thessaly. Surviving references present her as an etiological figure — a mythic ancestor who explains a place-name — not as an independently acting deity, spirit, or cult figure.
Eleius
Eleius (Ancient Greek Ἠλεῖος, Ēleîos) is a legendary eponymous king in Greek myth who functions as the ancestral founder of the Eleans and the region of Elis. Attested in mythographic traditions summarized in Pausanias and later compilations, Eleius appears in genealogical sequences linking local dynastic identity to divine and heroic lineages.
Euryte (daughter of Hippodamas)
Euryte (Ancient Greek Εὐρύτη) is a mortal woman preserved in Greek mythographic genealogies as the wife of Porthaon, king of Calydon, and the mother of several princes including Oeneus. She functions primarily as an ancestress in Apollodorus’ tradition and related summaries; no independent cult, powers, or narratives are attested for her in the cited sources. The name Euryte is shared by other mythic women (e.g., a nymph mother of Halirrhothius), and manuscript variants sometimes produce similar name-forms.
Heleus
Heleus (Ancient Greek Ἕλειος / Heleius) is a figure in Greek mythographic genealogies — one of the sons of Perseus and Andromeda. He is presented as a Mycenaean-era prince linked to dynastic succession, an expedition to Taphos with his nephew Amphitryon, and as eponym of the Lacedaemonian town Helos in some traditions.
Iasus (Iasius)
Iasus (Ancient Greek: Ἴασος / Ἰάσιος) is a personal name borne by multiple distinct figures in Greek myth and genealogies — kings, fathers of heroes, a participant in contests, and one attested among the Dactyli/Curetes — rather than a single unified supernatural entity. The bearers of the name function as onomastic nodes linking local traditions (Argos, Arcadia, Cyprus, Orchomenus, Trojan theatre) within the heroic-mythic timeline.
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- [2]Theoi Project — Leda. Theoi Greek Mythology — summary of traditions concerning Leda, listing parents Thestius and Eurythemisother
- [3]Atalanta in Calydon (text) — Algernon Charles Swinburne. Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon — literary retelling referencing Thestius and Eurythemis in the genealogical backgroundliterary
- [4]Person: Eurythemis (Mythology Index). Mythology index entry summarizing variants identifying Eurythemis in different genealogical rolesother
- [5]Greek Mythology Link — Eurythemis. Dictionary-style entry listing genealogical attestations for Eurythemisother
- [6]ToposText — person entries. ToposText catalogue entries for related mythic persons and genealogiesother
- [7]Hypermnestra (disambiguation) — Wikipedia. Wikipedia disambiguation noting genealogical contexts in which names like Eurythemis appearwiki