Eurycyda

In Greek mythology, Eurycyda^{[pronunciation?]} (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυκύδα, sic) was an Elean princess as the daughter of King Endymion of Elis by either Asterodia, Chromia or Hyperippe. Her brothers were Aetolus, Epeius, Paeon^[1] and possibly Naxos.^[2]

With Poseidon, she mothered Eleius, after whom the region of Elis was named, as was its people, the Eleans.^[3] Several authors refer to her as "Eurypyle".^[4]

Notes

1. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.1.4
2. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Naxos
3. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.1.8
4. Conon, Narrations 14; Scholia on Homer, Iliad 11.688; Etymologicum Magnum 426.20

References

• Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.