Euneike

Euneike ( Greek  Εὐνείκη ) or Eunike ( Εὐνίκη ) is a nymph of Greek mythology .

She was one of the Nereids , one of the daughters of the sea god Nereus and Doris .

According to another version of the legend, Euneike was one of those three nymphs who drew the young Hylas down into the depths of their source while they drew water after he and Heracles went ashore on the Argonauts voyage on the coast of Mysia .

literature

• Hermann Steuding : Euneike 1–2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 1404 ( digitized version ).
• Otto Waser : Euneike . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Sp. 1127.

Remarks

1. ↑ Hesiod , Theogony 247; Etymologicum magnum 276, 2; Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 2, 7; Hyginus , fabulae , praefatio.
2. ^ Theocritus 13:45 .