The name Evippus appears as a personal name across independent mythic traditions rather than as a single origin narrative. One bearer is listed as a son of King Thestius and Eurythemis and placed among the royal house of Pleuron/Calydon, associated with the conflict of the Curetes and the Calydonians and possibly slain in the internecine fighting of that cycle (a tradition summarized in modern references to Apollodorus and genealogical compilations). Another Evippus is a Lycian warrior who appears in the Trojan War catalogue/narrative and is reported killed by Patroclus in Homeric tradition. A third is named as son of Megareus and Iphinoe of Megara and is said, in Pausanias' local reports as relayed in modern summaries, to have been killed by the Cithaeronian lion. A fourth appears in an Arcadian context: at the wedding of Adrastus' daughters an Evippus' shield fell from the highest summit of the temple of Athena and was read as a portent of future misfortune. Collectively these attestations show the name recurring among mortal aristocratic/heroic figures across the Greek mythic landscape.
Classical sources and the provided summaries do not supply a standardized physical description for any Evippus. Individual bearers are identified by genealogy, deeds, or manner of death rather than bodily features: the son of Thestius is recorded in genealogical lists (no portrait described), the Lycian Evippus is named among warriors slain in battle in the Iliad (Homeric listings do not include detailed personal appearance for every minor combatant), the Megarean Evippus is noted as a victim of the Cithaeronian lion in Pausanias' local myth reports (the focus is the event, not physical description), and the Arcadian Evippus is known through the omen of a falling shield at a temple. Thus no consistent corporeal depiction is attested in the cited sources.
No supernatural powers or extraordinary abilities are attributed to any Evippus in the provided material. Each bearer functions as a mortal actor within heroic narratives: the Thestius-line Evippus participates in dynastic and martial contexts and 'might have been killed by his nephew Meleager' in the Curetes vs. Calydonians conflict; the Lycian Evippus is a warrior recorded as slain by Patroclus during the Trojan War (Homeric tradition); the Megarean Evippus is a victim of the Cithaeronian lion (local monster-slaying motif); and the Arcadian Evippus figures in an omen narrative when his shield falls from a temple summit at a wedding. Their behaviors are those of princes, warriors, and unlucky victims rather than bearers of magical faculties.
Weaknesses
- othermortal vulnerability (death in war or by beasts)
Wards
None recorded.
Patroclus
Patroclus is a mortal heroic figure of the Greek epic tradition associated with the Trojan War, famed as Achilles' close companion and the Myrmidons' commander in Achilles' stead; his death and subsequent ghost-appearance in Homeric narrative drive Achilles' return to battle and demand proper funerary rites.
Adrastus
Adrastus (Ancient Greek: Ἄδραστος or Ἄδρηστος) is a legendary king of Argos in the Greek mythic-historical tradition, best known as the leader of the expedition of the Seven against Thebes and as a figure tied to oracular counsel, dynastic marriages, and local hero cults.
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.
Community Record
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- [2]Evippus (Person entry) — UVic Mythology. University of Victoria, Myth Index entry for Evippus (genealogical listing)literary
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- [5]Pausanias (summary reference via modern compilations) — Cithaeronian lion episode. Modern summary referencing Pausanias' account of the Megarean Evippus killed by the Cithaeronian lionliterary
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