Eurynomos

Eurynomos ( Greek  Εὐρύνομος ) is a daimon of Greek mythology .

It is only mentioned by Pausanias in the description of the Nekyia des Polygnotos in the Lesche der Knidier in Delphi . According to Pausania's description, he is a daimon of the underworld who eats away the corpses so that only the bones remain. His color in the painting is given as blue-black like that of the flies, he shows his teeth and the skin of a vulture is spread out under him.

He was interpreted as the personification of putrefaction, as the death goddess Thanatos or as the depth of the earth devouring the dead.

literature

• Friedrich A. Voigt: Eurynomos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1427 ( digitized version ).
• Otto Kern : Eurynomos 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, column 1340.
• Martin Robertson :  Eurynomos . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume IV, Zurich / Munich 1988, p. 106.

Web links

Eurynomos in the Theoi Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pausanias 10, 28, 7-8
2. ^ Friedrich A. Voigt: Eurynomos
3. ↑ Carl Robert : The Nekyia of the Polygnot . M. Niemeyer, 1892. p. 61.
4. ^ Albrecht Dieterich : Nekyia: Contributions to the explanation of the newly discovered Peter apocalypse . Teubner, Leipzig 1893. p. 48. Digitized