Eurycleia (daughter of Ekphas)
Eurycleia is a figure from Greek mythology and the daughter of Ekphas . After Epimenides she was the first wife (or a concubine) of the Theban king Laios and mother of Oidipus , before he married Iokaste , who was therefore the stepmother of Oidipus. This is in contradiction to the variant of the myth that most ancient authors reproduce and that after the Iokaste (also epicaste) was the birth mother of Oidipus.
literature
- Johann Gottfried Gruber : Dictionary of ancient classical mythology and religion. Volume 3, Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, Weimar 1814, p. 251.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Eurycleia 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1423 ( digitized version ).
References and comments
- ^ Morris Silver: Taking Ancient Mythology Economically. Brill, Leiden 1992, p. 197.
- ↑ Scholion to Euripides , The Phoenicians 13.