Euryanassa (daughter of Pactolus)

Euryanassa ( Greek  Εὐρυάνασσα ) is a female figure in Greek mythology .

Euryanassa, whose name means "ruler of a great country", was the daughter of the river god Paktolos . She married the godless Tantalus and, according to some sources, was the mother of Pelops and Broteas and Niobe .

literature

• Ulrich Hoefer : Euryanassa 2). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Sp. 1318.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll: Euryanassa 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1420 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Scholien zu Euripides , Orestes 5 and 11 (with the name variants Eurythemiste and Eurysthanassa ); Johannes Tzetzes , Scholien zu Lykophron, Alexandra 52; Plutarch , Parall. 33.