In Greek mythology, Eurypyle (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυπύλη) may refer to the following personages:
- Eurypyle, an Amazon queen.[1]
- Eurypyle, another name for Eurycyda.[2]
- Eurypyle, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede[3] or by one of his many wives.[4] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,[5] Eurypyle with her other sisters, except for one,[6] all laid with the hero in a night,[7] a week[8] or for 50 days[9] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[10] Eurypyle bore Heracles a son, Archedicus.[11]
- Eurypyle, a maenad.[12]
- ^ Arrian in Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum, vol. III. p. 595.
- ^ Conon, Narrations 14; Scholia on Homer, Iliad 11.688; Etymologicum Magnum 426.20
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9.
- ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
- ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
- ^ Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8
- ^ Nonnus, 30.222