Eurytion
Eurytion (full-flowing little one) In Greek mythology, a centaur who caused the fight at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodameia. Ovid’s Metamorphoses (book 12) tells…
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Eurydice
Eurydice (wide justice) In Greek mythology, a dryad, wife of Orpheus, who died of a snakebite as she fled from Aristaeus. Orpheus went to the…
Euphrosyne
Euphrosyne (good cheer) In Greek mythology, one of the three Graces. The others were Aglaea (splendor) and Thalia (abundance). They were all daughters of Zeus…
Eunomia
Eunomia (good government) In Greek mythology, one of the Horae; goddess of order and legislation, daughter of Zeus and Themis. Her sisters were Eirene (peace)…
Euhemerus
Euhemerus (spending days cheerfully) Fourth century b.c.e. Greek writer on mythology whose book Sacred History theorizes that the gods were originally humans who were later…
Eudora
Eudora (generous) In Greek mythology, one of the Nereids, the 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris who attended Poseidon. Homer’s Iliad (book 18), Hesiod’s Theogony,…
Etna
Etna (Aetna, Etna) In Greek and Roman history and mythology, volcanic mountain on the eastern coast of Sicily where the forge of Hephaestus, god of…
Eteocles and Polynices
Eteocles and Polynices (true glory and much strife) In Greek mythology, sons of Oedipus and Jocasta (or Euryganeia); brothers of Antigone and Ismene. Both sons…
Erytheis
Erytheis (crimson) In Greek mythology, one of the Hesperides who guarded the Golden Apples in the garden of the Hesperides. SOURCE: Encyclopedia of World Mythology…
Erymanthian boar
Erymanthian boar In Greek mythology, the boar captured by Heracles as his fourth labor; it lived on Mount Erymanthus in Arcadia. Erymanthus is also the…
