Euippe (daughter of Tyrimmas)
Euippe ( Greek Εὐίππη ) is a female figure in Greek mythology .
Euippe was the daughter of King Tyrimmas of Epirus. It was woven into the saga of Odysseus by Sophocles . Accordingly, after killing the suitors of his wife Penelope , Odysseus traveled to Epirus as a result of an oracle , where Tyrimmas received him very kindly. Odysseus seduced the king's daughter Euippe and begat Euryalus with her . When he had grown up, Euippe sent him with identification marks to Odysseus' homeland Ithaca . But Penelope learned the truth and persuaded her husband to kill Euryalus because he was planning a conspiracy against him. Odysseus did not recognize his illegitimate son and complied with Penelope's request, so that Euryalus lost his life at the hand of his own father. Lysimachus, however , called Euippes son Leontophron , other authors Doryklos .
Parthenius sees Odysseus to be guilty of killing his own offspring: he was διὰ τὸ μὴ ἐγκρατὴς φῦναι μηδὲ ἄλλως ἐπιεικὴς became the murderer of his own child - because he was uncontrolled and otherwise by no means mild. Shortly afterwards he was injured by family members with a ray sting and died from it.
literature
- Jakob Escher-Bürkli : Euippe 2). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 994.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Euippe 4) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1399 f. ( Digitized version ).
Remarks
- ↑ Sophocles in his lost drama Euryalus in Parthenios of Nicaea , Erotica pathemata 3.
- ^ Fragment of Lysimachus in Eustathios of Thessalonike , commentary on Homer's Odyssey 1796, 52.
- ↑ a b Kai Brodersen (ed.): Love sufferings in antiquity. The "Erotika Pathemata" of Parthenios. Scientific book company, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-89678-182-0 , p. 37.