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Eurypyle

In Greek mythology, Eurypyle may refer to the following personages:Eurypyle, an Amazon queen. Eurypyle, another name for Eurycyda who bore Eleius to Poseidon. Eurypyle, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede or by one of his many wives. When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion, Eurypyle with her other sisters, except for one, all laid with the hero in a night, a week or for 50 days as what their father strongly desired it to be. Eurypyle bore Heracles a son, Archedicus. Eurypyle, a maenad.

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In Greek mythology, Eurypyle (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυπύλη) may refer to the following personages:

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  1. Arrian in Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum, vol. III. p. 595.
  2. Conon, Narrations 14; Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 11.688; Etymologicum_Magnum 426.20
  3. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
  4. Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
  5. Apollodorus, 2.4.9.
  6. Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  7. Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
  8. Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  9. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
  10. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
  11. Apollodorus, 2.7.8
  12. Nonnus, 30.222
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