The exact date is not known; but
Iphigeneia
at Aulis, and the Bacchae.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
(Schlegel, Dram.
Lit.
lect.
vii.
; Aelian, V.
nary language of men (comp.
Long.
de Subl.
31),
H. ü. 13; Quint. Inst. Or. x. l; Thom. Mag. Vit. peculiarly fitted, it may be observed, for the ex-
Eurip. ; Meineke, Fragm. Com. Graec. p. 286, pression of the gentler and more tender feelings.
iv. p. 48. ) Yet, even as a matter of art, such a (See Shakspeare, Merch. of Venice, act v. sc. l;
process can hardly be justified : it seems to partake comp. Müller, Greek Lit. p. 366. )
too much of the fault condemned in Boileau's line : According to some accounts, Euripides wrote, in
Peindre Caton galant et Brutus dameret; all, 75 plays ; according to others, 92. Of these,
and it is a graver question whether the moral ten- 18 are extant, if we omit the Rhesus, the genuine
dency of tragedy was not impaired by it-whether, ness of which has been defended by Vater and
in the absence especially of a fixed external stan- Hartung, while Valckenaer, Hermann, and Müller
dard of morality, it was not most dangerous to have, on good grounds, pronounced it spurious. To
tamper with what might supply the place of it, what author, however, or to what period it should
however ineffectually, through the medium of the be assigned, is a disputed point. (Valcken. Diatr.
imagination,—whether indeed it can ever be safe 9, 10; Hermann, de Rheso tragoedia, Opusc. vol.
to lower to the common level of humanity charac-iii. ; Müller, Gr. Lit. p. 380, note. ) A list is
ters hallowed by song and invested by tradition subjoined of the extant plays of Euripides, with
with an ideal grandeur, in cases where they do not their dates, ascertained or probable. For a fuller
tend by the power of inveterate association to account the reader is referred to Müller (Gr. Lite
colour or countenance evil. And there is another p. 367, &c. ) and to Fabricius (Bibl. Graec. vol. ji.
obvious point, which should not be omitted while p. 239, &c. ), the latter of whom gives a catalogue
we are speaking of the moral effect of the writings also of the lost dramas.
## p. 107 (#123) ############################################
ES.
107
EURIPIDES.
EURIPIDES.
ating tendency of
suffering, beautiful
merit for him fra
8 " the most traged
philosopber
, howere,
by the remark, ting
nirably for the excite
Erophes," he does Best
1 και τα άλλα μα και
ention in conclusion the
stically speaking, ba?
against his tragedies
constant eops
" the disconnerica
Dject of the play (Ars.
is. 191, &c), ard te
Formal character of Eis
uts some good reads
Freek Lit. pp. 362–51
4. p. 590, &c. ) Anche
nt introduction of brand
al disquisitions, maka
and Hecuba like a
er at snbtilty than
ver, is too often lost in
declamations meet 14
se of Alfieri. Tber ?
ents which are paid bin
ints by Cicero and by
whom says that be is
with the most eloquen:
- ad Fam. IV. 8; Quist
cero so admired him that
his hand his tragedy of
murder. (Ptol Hephaestion
Alcestis. B. C. 438. This play was brought out Cyclops, of uncertain date. It is interesting as
As the last of a tetralogy, and stood therefore in the only extant specimen of the Greek satyric
the place of a satyric drama, to which indeed it drama, and its intrinsic merits seem to us to call
bears, in some parts, great similarity, particularly for a less disparaging criticism than that which
in the representation of Hercules in his cups. This Müller passes on it.
circumstance obviates, of course, the objection Besides the plays, there are extant five letters,
against the scene alluded to, as a " lamentable in- purporting to have been written by Euripides.
terruption to our feelings of commiseration for the Three of them are addressed to king Archelaus,
calamities of Admetus,”—an objection which, as it and the other two to Sophocles and Cephisophon
seems to us, would even on other grounds be un- respectively. Bentley, in a letter to Barnes (Bent-
tenable. (See Herm. Dissert. de Eurip. Alecst. , ley's Correspondence, ed. Wordsw. vol. i. p. 64).
prefixed to Monk's edition of 1837. ) While, mentions what he considers the internal proofs of
however, we recognize this satyric character in the their spuriousness, some of which, however, are
Alcestis, we must confess that we cannot, as Müller drawn from some of the false or doubtful state-
does, see anything farcical in the concluding scene. ments with respect to the life of Euripides. But
Medea. B. C. 431. The four plays represented we have no hesitation in setting them down as
in this year by Euripides, who gained the third spurious, and as the composition of some later
prize, were Medea, Philocletis, Dictys, and Mes åpetalóyos, though Barnes, in his preface to them,
sores or Oepiotai, a satyric drama. (See Hartung, published subsequently to Bentley's letter, declares
Eur. Rest. Pp. 332–374. )
that he who denies their genuineness must be
Hippolytus Coronifer. B. C. 428. In this year either very impudent or deficient in judgment.
Euripides gained the first prize. For the reason of The editio princeps of Euripides contains the
the title Coronifer (otepavnpópos), see vv. 72, &c. Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, and Andromache, in
There was an older play, called the Veiled Hippo- capital letters. It is without date or printer's
lytus, no longer extant, on which the present name, but is supposed, with much probability, to
tragedy was intended as an improvement, and in have been edited by J. Lascaris, and printed by
which the criminal love of Phaedra appears to have De Alopa, at Florence, towards the end of the
been represented in a more offensive manner, and 15th century. In 1503 an edition was published
as avowed by herself boldly and without restraint by Aldus at Venice: it contains 18 plays, including
for the conjectural reasons of the title Kaavató- the Rhesus and omitting the Electra. Another,
uevos, applied to this former drama, see Wagner, published at Heidelberg in 1597, contained the
Fragm. Eurip. p. 220, &c. ; Valcken. Praef. in Latin version of Aemil. Portus and a fragment of
Hippol. pp. 19, 20 ; comp. Hartung. Eurip. Rest. the Danaë, for the first time, from some ancient
Pp. 41, &c. , 401, &c.
MSS. in the Palatine library. Another was pub-
Hecuba. This play must have been exhibited lished by P. Stephens, Geneva, 1602. In that of
before B. C. 423, as Aristophanes parodies a pas- Barnes, Cambridge, 1694, whatever be the defects
sage of it in the Clouds (1148), which he brought of Barnes as an editor, much was done towards the
out in that year. Müller says that the passage in correction and illustration of the text. It contains
the Hecuba (645, ed. Pors. ), téve: dè kai tis also many fragments, and the spurious letters.
K. 7. A. , “ seems to refer to the misfortunes of the Other editions are that of Musgrave, Oxford, 1778,
Spartans at Pylos in B. C. 425. ” This is certainly of Beck, Leipzig, 1778–88, of Matthiae, Leipzig,
possible ; and, if it is the case, we may fix the re 1813—29, in 9 vols. with the Scholia and frag-
presentation of the play in B. C. 424.
ments, and a variorum edition, published at Glasgow
Heracleidae. Müller refers it, by conjecture, to in 1821, in 9 vols. 8vo. The fragments have been
B. C. 421.
recently edited in a separate form and very satis-
Supplices. This also he refers, by conjecture, to factorily by Wagner, Wratislaw, 1844. Of separate
about the same period.
plays there have been many editions, e. g. by Por-
Ion, of uncertain date.
son, Elmsley, Valckenaer, Monk, Pflugk, and Her-
Hercules Furens, of uncertain date.
There are also numerous translations of
Andromache, referred by Müller, on conjecture, different plays in several languages, and the whole
to the 90th Olympiad. (B. C. 420-417. ) works have been translated into English verse by
Troades. B. C. 415.
Potter, Oxford, 1814, and into German by Bothe,
Electra, assigned by Müller, on conjecture and Berlin, 1800. The Jocast, by Gascoigne and
from internal evidence, to the period of the Sicilian Kinwelmarsh, represented at Gray's Inn in 1566,
expedition. (B. C. 415—413. )
is a very free translation from the Phoenissae, much
Helena. B. C. 412, in the same year with the being added, omitted, and transposed.
lost play of the Andromeda. (Schol ad Arist. 3. The youngest of the three sons of the above,
Thesm. 1012. )
according to Suidas. After the death of his father
Iphigeneia at Tauri. Date uncertain.
be brought out three of his plays at the great Dio-
Orestes. B. C. 408.
nysia, viz. the Alcmaeon (no longer extant), the
Phoenissae.
The exact date is not known; but Iphigeneia at Aulis, and the Bacchae. (Schol. ad
the play was one of the last exhibited at Athens Arist. Ran. 67. ) Suidas mentions also a nephew
by its author. _(Schol. ad Arist. Ran. 53. ) of the great poet, of the same name, to whom he
Bacchae. This play was apparently written for ascribes the authorship of three plays, Medech,
representation in Macedonia, and therefore at a Orestes, and Polyxena, and who, he tells us, gained
very late period of the life of Euripides. See a prize with one of his uncle's tragedies after the
above.
death of the latter. It is probable that the son
Iphigeneia at Aulis. This play, together with and the nephew have been confounded. Aristo-
the Bacchae and the Alcmaeon, was brought out at phanes too (Eccles. 8:25, 826, 829) mentions a cer-
Athens, after the poet's death, by the younger tain Euripides who had shortly before proposed a
Euripides. (No. 3. ]
property-tax of a fortieth. The proposal made him
lled the poet of the s
jeans true in its full ef-
though he may not bare
luction of the sophistica
le philosophy of Socrates
sophists, exercised mis
(Hartung, Eur.
on which he brought bis
the level of common life
,
le the every-day made of
Phet. iii
. 2. & 5) commends
first to produce an ezari
t of words from the ari-
mann.
omp. Long. de S. L. 31)
be observed, for the ex-
nd more tender feelings
of Venice, act F. sel;
1. 366. )
unts, Euripides wrote, in
o others, 92. Of these
,
the Rhesus, the servise
defended by Vater and
F, Hermann, and Vuler
onounced it spurious To
to what period it should
point. (l'alcken. Dat
so tragoedia, Opaco ral
380, note. ) A list is
plays of Euripides
, with
rred to Müller (Gr. L2
ius (Bill. Graeci rol i
whom gives a catalogue
probable. For a fulier
## p. 108 (#124) ############################################
108
EURYANAX.
EURYCLES.
s
at first very popular, but the measure was thrown royal house of the Agids. He was the son of Do
out, and he became forth with the object of a gene- rieus, and was one of the commanders of the Lace
ral outcry, about B. c. 394. It is doubtful whether daemonians at the battle of Plataeae, B. C. 479.
he is to be identified with the son or the nephew (Herod. ix. 10, 53, 55. ) (Sce Dorisus, vol. i. p.
of the poet. (See Böckh, Publ. Econ. of Athens, 1067, a. )
(C. P. M. )
pp. 493, 506, 520. )
[E. E. ) EURY'BATES (Evpvbárns). 1. By Latin writers
EUROʻPA (Eupuan), according to the Ilind called Eriboles, was a son of Teleon, and one of
(xiv. 321), a daughter of Phoenix, but according the Argonauts. He was skilled in the medical
to the common tradition a daughter of Agenor, was art, and dressed the wound which Oilens received
carried off by Zeus, who had metamorphosed him from one of the Stymphalian birds. (Apollon. Rhod.
self into a bull
, from Phoenicia to Crete. (Apollod. i. 73, ii. 1040; Hygin. Fub. 14; Val. Flacc. i.
Mi. 1. § l; Mosch. ii. 7; Herod. i. 173; Paus. | 402. )
vii. 4. § 1, ix. 19. § 1; Ov. Met. ii. 839, &c. ; 2. The herald of Odysseus, who followed his
Comp. AGENOR. ), Europe, as a part of the world, master to Troy. He is humorously described as
was believed to have received its name from this hump-backed, of a brown complexion, and with
fabulous Phoenician princess. (Hom. Hymn. in curly hair; but he was honoured by his master, since
Apoll. 251; Herod. iv. 45. ) There are two other he was kind and obedient. (Hom. Il. i. 319, ii.
mythical personages of this name (Hes. Theog. 184, ix. 170, Od. xix. 246. )
(L. S. )
357; Pind. Pyth. iv. 46), which occurs also as a EURY'BATES (Eupueatas), an Argive, the
surname of Demeter. (Paus. ix. 39. $ 4. ) (L. S. ) commander of 1000 volunteers who went to the
EURO'PUS (Eupwrós), a son of Macedon and assistance of the Aeginetans in their war with the
Oreithyia, the daughter of Cecrops, from whom the Athenians just before the Persian invasion. He
town of Europus in Macedonia was believed to had practised the pentathlum, and challenged four
have received its name. (Steph. Byz. s. v. ) (L. S. ) of the Athenians to single combat. Three he slew,
EUROPS (Eõpwy), the name of two mythical but fell himself by the hand of the fourth. (Herod.
personages, the one a son of Aegialeus and king of vi. 92, ix. 75. )
(C. P. M. )
Sicyon, and the other a son of Phoroneus. (Paus. EURY'BATUS (Eupúlatos). 1. A Laconian,
ii. 5. § 5, 34. § 5. )
(L. S. ] who was victor in the wrestling-match, in Ol. 18,
EURO'TAS (Eúpuótas), a son of Myles and when this species of contest was first introduced.
grandson of Lelex. He was the father of Sparte, (Paus. v. 8. $ 7. )
sim
the wife of Lacedaemon, and is said to have carried 2. An Ephesian, whom Croesus sent with a
the waters, stagnating in the plain of Lacedaemon, large sum of money to the Peloponnesus to hire
into the sea by means of a canal, and to have mercenaries for him in his war with Cyrus He,
called the river which arose therefrom after his however, went over to Cyrus, and betrayed the
own name, Eurotas. (Paus. iii. 1. & 2. ) A pollo- whole matter to him. In consequence of this
dorus (iii. 10. § 3) calls him a son of Lelex by the treachery, his name passed into a proverb amongst
nymph Cleochareia, and in Stephanus of Byzantium the Greeks. (Diod. Excerpt. de Virt, et Vit. p. 553;
(s. v. Tauyetov) his mother is called Taygete. Ulpian, in Dem. de Coron. p. 137 ; Aeschin. in
(Comp. Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iv. 15, Ol. vi. 46, Ctes. c. 43; Plat. Protag. p. 327.
H. ü. 13; Quint. Inst. Or. x. l; Thom. Mag. Vit. peculiarly fitted, it may be observed, for the ex-
Eurip. ; Meineke, Fragm. Com. Graec. p. 286, pression of the gentler and more tender feelings.
iv. p. 48. ) Yet, even as a matter of art, such a (See Shakspeare, Merch. of Venice, act v. sc. l;
process can hardly be justified : it seems to partake comp. Müller, Greek Lit. p. 366. )
too much of the fault condemned in Boileau's line : According to some accounts, Euripides wrote, in
Peindre Caton galant et Brutus dameret; all, 75 plays ; according to others, 92. Of these,
and it is a graver question whether the moral ten- 18 are extant, if we omit the Rhesus, the genuine
dency of tragedy was not impaired by it-whether, ness of which has been defended by Vater and
in the absence especially of a fixed external stan- Hartung, while Valckenaer, Hermann, and Müller
dard of morality, it was not most dangerous to have, on good grounds, pronounced it spurious. To
tamper with what might supply the place of it, what author, however, or to what period it should
however ineffectually, through the medium of the be assigned, is a disputed point. (Valcken. Diatr.
imagination,—whether indeed it can ever be safe 9, 10; Hermann, de Rheso tragoedia, Opusc. vol.
to lower to the common level of humanity charac-iii. ; Müller, Gr. Lit. p. 380, note. ) A list is
ters hallowed by song and invested by tradition subjoined of the extant plays of Euripides, with
with an ideal grandeur, in cases where they do not their dates, ascertained or probable. For a fuller
tend by the power of inveterate association to account the reader is referred to Müller (Gr. Lite
colour or countenance evil. And there is another p. 367, &c. ) and to Fabricius (Bibl. Graec. vol. ji.
obvious point, which should not be omitted while p. 239, &c. ), the latter of whom gives a catalogue
we are speaking of the moral effect of the writings also of the lost dramas.
## p. 107 (#123) ############################################
ES.
107
EURIPIDES.
EURIPIDES.
ating tendency of
suffering, beautiful
merit for him fra
8 " the most traged
philosopber
, howere,
by the remark, ting
nirably for the excite
Erophes," he does Best
1 και τα άλλα μα και
ention in conclusion the
stically speaking, ba?
against his tragedies
constant eops
" the disconnerica
Dject of the play (Ars.
is. 191, &c), ard te
Formal character of Eis
uts some good reads
Freek Lit. pp. 362–51
4. p. 590, &c. ) Anche
nt introduction of brand
al disquisitions, maka
and Hecuba like a
er at snbtilty than
ver, is too often lost in
declamations meet 14
se of Alfieri. Tber ?
ents which are paid bin
ints by Cicero and by
whom says that be is
with the most eloquen:
- ad Fam. IV. 8; Quist
cero so admired him that
his hand his tragedy of
murder. (Ptol Hephaestion
Alcestis. B. C. 438. This play was brought out Cyclops, of uncertain date. It is interesting as
As the last of a tetralogy, and stood therefore in the only extant specimen of the Greek satyric
the place of a satyric drama, to which indeed it drama, and its intrinsic merits seem to us to call
bears, in some parts, great similarity, particularly for a less disparaging criticism than that which
in the representation of Hercules in his cups. This Müller passes on it.
circumstance obviates, of course, the objection Besides the plays, there are extant five letters,
against the scene alluded to, as a " lamentable in- purporting to have been written by Euripides.
terruption to our feelings of commiseration for the Three of them are addressed to king Archelaus,
calamities of Admetus,”—an objection which, as it and the other two to Sophocles and Cephisophon
seems to us, would even on other grounds be un- respectively. Bentley, in a letter to Barnes (Bent-
tenable. (See Herm. Dissert. de Eurip. Alecst. , ley's Correspondence, ed. Wordsw. vol. i. p. 64).
prefixed to Monk's edition of 1837. ) While, mentions what he considers the internal proofs of
however, we recognize this satyric character in the their spuriousness, some of which, however, are
Alcestis, we must confess that we cannot, as Müller drawn from some of the false or doubtful state-
does, see anything farcical in the concluding scene. ments with respect to the life of Euripides. But
Medea. B. C. 431. The four plays represented we have no hesitation in setting them down as
in this year by Euripides, who gained the third spurious, and as the composition of some later
prize, were Medea, Philocletis, Dictys, and Mes åpetalóyos, though Barnes, in his preface to them,
sores or Oepiotai, a satyric drama. (See Hartung, published subsequently to Bentley's letter, declares
Eur. Rest. Pp. 332–374. )
that he who denies their genuineness must be
Hippolytus Coronifer. B. C. 428. In this year either very impudent or deficient in judgment.
Euripides gained the first prize. For the reason of The editio princeps of Euripides contains the
the title Coronifer (otepavnpópos), see vv. 72, &c. Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, and Andromache, in
There was an older play, called the Veiled Hippo- capital letters. It is without date or printer's
lytus, no longer extant, on which the present name, but is supposed, with much probability, to
tragedy was intended as an improvement, and in have been edited by J. Lascaris, and printed by
which the criminal love of Phaedra appears to have De Alopa, at Florence, towards the end of the
been represented in a more offensive manner, and 15th century. In 1503 an edition was published
as avowed by herself boldly and without restraint by Aldus at Venice: it contains 18 plays, including
for the conjectural reasons of the title Kaavató- the Rhesus and omitting the Electra. Another,
uevos, applied to this former drama, see Wagner, published at Heidelberg in 1597, contained the
Fragm. Eurip. p. 220, &c. ; Valcken. Praef. in Latin version of Aemil. Portus and a fragment of
Hippol. pp. 19, 20 ; comp. Hartung. Eurip. Rest. the Danaë, for the first time, from some ancient
Pp. 41, &c. , 401, &c.
MSS. in the Palatine library. Another was pub-
Hecuba. This play must have been exhibited lished by P. Stephens, Geneva, 1602. In that of
before B. C. 423, as Aristophanes parodies a pas- Barnes, Cambridge, 1694, whatever be the defects
sage of it in the Clouds (1148), which he brought of Barnes as an editor, much was done towards the
out in that year. Müller says that the passage in correction and illustration of the text. It contains
the Hecuba (645, ed. Pors. ), téve: dè kai tis also many fragments, and the spurious letters.
K. 7. A. , “ seems to refer to the misfortunes of the Other editions are that of Musgrave, Oxford, 1778,
Spartans at Pylos in B. C. 425. ” This is certainly of Beck, Leipzig, 1778–88, of Matthiae, Leipzig,
possible ; and, if it is the case, we may fix the re 1813—29, in 9 vols. with the Scholia and frag-
presentation of the play in B. C. 424.
ments, and a variorum edition, published at Glasgow
Heracleidae. Müller refers it, by conjecture, to in 1821, in 9 vols. 8vo. The fragments have been
B. C. 421.
recently edited in a separate form and very satis-
Supplices. This also he refers, by conjecture, to factorily by Wagner, Wratislaw, 1844. Of separate
about the same period.
plays there have been many editions, e. g. by Por-
Ion, of uncertain date.
son, Elmsley, Valckenaer, Monk, Pflugk, and Her-
Hercules Furens, of uncertain date.
There are also numerous translations of
Andromache, referred by Müller, on conjecture, different plays in several languages, and the whole
to the 90th Olympiad. (B. C. 420-417. ) works have been translated into English verse by
Troades. B. C. 415.
Potter, Oxford, 1814, and into German by Bothe,
Electra, assigned by Müller, on conjecture and Berlin, 1800. The Jocast, by Gascoigne and
from internal evidence, to the period of the Sicilian Kinwelmarsh, represented at Gray's Inn in 1566,
expedition. (B. C. 415—413. )
is a very free translation from the Phoenissae, much
Helena. B. C. 412, in the same year with the being added, omitted, and transposed.
lost play of the Andromeda. (Schol ad Arist. 3. The youngest of the three sons of the above,
Thesm. 1012. )
according to Suidas. After the death of his father
Iphigeneia at Tauri. Date uncertain.
be brought out three of his plays at the great Dio-
Orestes. B. C. 408.
nysia, viz. the Alcmaeon (no longer extant), the
Phoenissae.
The exact date is not known; but Iphigeneia at Aulis, and the Bacchae. (Schol. ad
the play was one of the last exhibited at Athens Arist. Ran. 67. ) Suidas mentions also a nephew
by its author. _(Schol. ad Arist. Ran. 53. ) of the great poet, of the same name, to whom he
Bacchae. This play was apparently written for ascribes the authorship of three plays, Medech,
representation in Macedonia, and therefore at a Orestes, and Polyxena, and who, he tells us, gained
very late period of the life of Euripides. See a prize with one of his uncle's tragedies after the
above.
death of the latter. It is probable that the son
Iphigeneia at Aulis. This play, together with and the nephew have been confounded. Aristo-
the Bacchae and the Alcmaeon, was brought out at phanes too (Eccles. 8:25, 826, 829) mentions a cer-
Athens, after the poet's death, by the younger tain Euripides who had shortly before proposed a
Euripides. (No. 3. ]
property-tax of a fortieth. The proposal made him
lled the poet of the s
jeans true in its full ef-
though he may not bare
luction of the sophistica
le philosophy of Socrates
sophists, exercised mis
(Hartung, Eur.
on which he brought bis
the level of common life
,
le the every-day made of
Phet. iii
. 2. & 5) commends
first to produce an ezari
t of words from the ari-
mann.
omp. Long. de S. L. 31)
be observed, for the ex-
nd more tender feelings
of Venice, act F. sel;
1. 366. )
unts, Euripides wrote, in
o others, 92. Of these
,
the Rhesus, the servise
defended by Vater and
F, Hermann, and Vuler
onounced it spurious To
to what period it should
point. (l'alcken. Dat
so tragoedia, Opaco ral
380, note. ) A list is
plays of Euripides
, with
rred to Müller (Gr. L2
ius (Bill. Graeci rol i
whom gives a catalogue
probable. For a fulier
## p. 108 (#124) ############################################
108
EURYANAX.
EURYCLES.
s
at first very popular, but the measure was thrown royal house of the Agids. He was the son of Do
out, and he became forth with the object of a gene- rieus, and was one of the commanders of the Lace
ral outcry, about B. c. 394. It is doubtful whether daemonians at the battle of Plataeae, B. C. 479.
he is to be identified with the son or the nephew (Herod. ix. 10, 53, 55. ) (Sce Dorisus, vol. i. p.
of the poet. (See Böckh, Publ. Econ. of Athens, 1067, a. )
(C. P. M. )
pp. 493, 506, 520. )
[E. E. ) EURY'BATES (Evpvbárns). 1. By Latin writers
EUROʻPA (Eupuan), according to the Ilind called Eriboles, was a son of Teleon, and one of
(xiv. 321), a daughter of Phoenix, but according the Argonauts. He was skilled in the medical
to the common tradition a daughter of Agenor, was art, and dressed the wound which Oilens received
carried off by Zeus, who had metamorphosed him from one of the Stymphalian birds. (Apollon. Rhod.
self into a bull
, from Phoenicia to Crete. (Apollod. i. 73, ii. 1040; Hygin. Fub. 14; Val. Flacc. i.
Mi. 1. § l; Mosch. ii. 7; Herod. i. 173; Paus. | 402. )
vii. 4. § 1, ix. 19. § 1; Ov. Met. ii. 839, &c. ; 2. The herald of Odysseus, who followed his
Comp. AGENOR. ), Europe, as a part of the world, master to Troy. He is humorously described as
was believed to have received its name from this hump-backed, of a brown complexion, and with
fabulous Phoenician princess. (Hom. Hymn. in curly hair; but he was honoured by his master, since
Apoll. 251; Herod. iv. 45. ) There are two other he was kind and obedient. (Hom. Il. i. 319, ii.
mythical personages of this name (Hes. Theog. 184, ix. 170, Od. xix. 246. )
(L. S. )
357; Pind. Pyth. iv. 46), which occurs also as a EURY'BATES (Eupueatas), an Argive, the
surname of Demeter. (Paus. ix. 39. $ 4. ) (L. S. ) commander of 1000 volunteers who went to the
EURO'PUS (Eupwrós), a son of Macedon and assistance of the Aeginetans in their war with the
Oreithyia, the daughter of Cecrops, from whom the Athenians just before the Persian invasion. He
town of Europus in Macedonia was believed to had practised the pentathlum, and challenged four
have received its name. (Steph. Byz. s. v. ) (L. S. ) of the Athenians to single combat. Three he slew,
EUROPS (Eõpwy), the name of two mythical but fell himself by the hand of the fourth. (Herod.
personages, the one a son of Aegialeus and king of vi. 92, ix. 75. )
(C. P. M. )
Sicyon, and the other a son of Phoroneus. (Paus. EURY'BATUS (Eupúlatos). 1. A Laconian,
ii. 5. § 5, 34. § 5. )
(L. S. ] who was victor in the wrestling-match, in Ol. 18,
EURO'TAS (Eúpuótas), a son of Myles and when this species of contest was first introduced.
grandson of Lelex. He was the father of Sparte, (Paus. v. 8. $ 7. )
sim
the wife of Lacedaemon, and is said to have carried 2. An Ephesian, whom Croesus sent with a
the waters, stagnating in the plain of Lacedaemon, large sum of money to the Peloponnesus to hire
into the sea by means of a canal, and to have mercenaries for him in his war with Cyrus He,
called the river which arose therefrom after his however, went over to Cyrus, and betrayed the
own name, Eurotas. (Paus. iii. 1. & 2. ) A pollo- whole matter to him. In consequence of this
dorus (iii. 10. § 3) calls him a son of Lelex by the treachery, his name passed into a proverb amongst
nymph Cleochareia, and in Stephanus of Byzantium the Greeks. (Diod. Excerpt. de Virt, et Vit. p. 553;
(s. v. Tauyetov) his mother is called Taygete. Ulpian, in Dem. de Coron. p. 137 ; Aeschin. in
(Comp. Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iv. 15, Ol. vi. 46, Ctes. c. 43; Plat. Protag. p. 327.
