In
Greek mythology, Euaemon or Euaimon (
Ancient Greek: Εὐαίμων) may refer to the following personages and a place:
Euaemon, one of the ten sons of
Poseidon and
Cleito in
Plato's myth of
Atlantis.[1] He was the younger brother of
Ampheres and his other siblings were
Atlas and
Eumelus,
Mneseus and
Autochthon,
Elasippus and
Mestor, and lastly,
Azaes and
Diaprepes.[2] Evaemon, along with his nine siblings, became the heads of ten royal houses, each ruling a tenth portion of the island, according to a partition made by Poseidon himself, but all subject to the supreme dynasty of Atlas who was the eldest of the ten.[3]
Euaemon, an
Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King
Lycaon either by the
naiadCyllene,[4]Nonacris[5] or by unknown woman. He and his brothers were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them,
Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. Euaemon was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[6]
Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.
ISBN978-0-674-96785-4
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
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In
Greek mythology, Euaemon or Euaimon (
Ancient Greek: Εὐαίμων) may refer to the following personages and a place:
Euaemon, one of the ten sons of
Poseidon and
Cleito in
Plato's myth of
Atlantis.[1] He was the younger brother of
Ampheres and his other siblings were
Atlas and
Eumelus,
Mneseus and
Autochthon,
Elasippus and
Mestor, and lastly,
Azaes and
Diaprepes.[2] Evaemon, along with his nine siblings, became the heads of ten royal houses, each ruling a tenth portion of the island, according to a partition made by Poseidon himself, but all subject to the supreme dynasty of Atlas who was the eldest of the ten.[3]
Euaemon, an
Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King
Lycaon either by the
naiadCyllene,[4]Nonacris[5] or by unknown woman. He and his brothers were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them,
Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. Euaemon was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[6]
Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.
ISBN978-0-674-96785-4
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.