Ops (mythology)

For the Roman goddess, see Ops.

In Greek mythology, the name Ops (Ancient Greek: Ὤψ) may refer to:

• Ops (male), son of Peisenor and father of Eurycleia.^[1] He may or may not be the same as Ops, father of Melas.^[2]
• Ops (female), mother of Eurypylus by Euaemon.^[3] In some accounts, the mother of son was called Deipyle (Deityche).^[4]

Notes

1. Homer, Odyssey 1.429, 2.347 & 20.148
2. Pausanias, 8.28.5
3. Hyginus, Fabulae 97
4. Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 67, Prologue 619–620. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.

References

• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• 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.
• Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4