Evagore (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Evagore, Euagora or Evagora (Ancient Greek: Εὐαγόρη Euagorê means 'the eloquent'^[1]) may refer to the same or two different nymphs:

• Euagore, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[2][3]
• Euagora, the naiad mother of Hecabe either by King Dymas of Phrygia or the river-god Sangarius.^[4]

Notes

1. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 65.
2. Hesiod, Theogony 257; Apollodorus, 1.2.7.
3. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 132. ISBN 9780786471119.
4. Scholia on Euripides, Hecuba 3

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.