Eurydice (wife of Lycurgus)

Eurydice ( Greek Εὐρυδίκη ) or Amphithea (Greek Ἀμφιθέα ) is the wife of Lycurgus , king of Nemea in Arcadia , in Greek mythology .

She gave birth to her husband's son Opheltes , who was killed by a snake bite as a toddler and now, since this was interpreted by the seer Amphiaraos as a bad omen, was given the name Archemoros ("beginning of calamity"). According to Otto Kern , Eurydice seems to be closely related to her better-known namesake , the wife of Orpheus , as she also died of a snake bite.

literature

Otto Kern : Eurydice 2). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 1325. (see also Karl Tümpel : Amphithea 6) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Sp. 1959.)

Individual evidence

^ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 14.
↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 14 and 3, 6, 4, 1; Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 273.
↑ Otto Kern: Eurydice 2). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 1325.

[1] Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 14.

[2] Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 14 and 3, 6, 4, 1; Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 273.

[3] Otto Kern: Eurydice 2). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 1325.