In Greek mythology, Eurytele ( Ancient Greek: Εὐρυτέλη) was a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede, daughter of Arneus [1] (or by one of his many wives [2]). She bore Leucippus to the hero Heracles. [3]
When the Cithaeronian lion was harassing the kine of Thespius, the latter asked Herakles to kill the lion. [4] The son of Zeus hunted it for fifty days and finally slayed the beast. The Thespian king entertained him as a guest in a brilliant fashion during that span of time, making Heracles drunk and slept unwittingly with each of his fifty daughters, including Eurytele. The hero having thought that his bed-fellow was always the same. Thespius intended this to happen because he strongly desired that all his daughters should have children by Hercules. [5] In another version of the myth, the latter had an intercourse with Eurytele and her siblings for one week, [6] seven laid with Heracles each night. [7]
In some accounts, Heracles bedded in a single night [8] with Eurytele and her sisters except for one who refused to have a connection with him. The hero thinking that he had been insulted, condemned her to remain a virgin all her life, serving him as his priest. [9]
In Greek mythology, Eurytele ( Ancient Greek: Εὐρυτέλη) was a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede, daughter of Arneus [1] (or by one of his many wives [2]). She bore Leucippus to the hero Heracles. [3]
When the Cithaeronian lion was harassing the kine of Thespius, the latter asked Herakles to kill the lion. [4] The son of Zeus hunted it for fifty days and finally slayed the beast. The Thespian king entertained him as a guest in a brilliant fashion during that span of time, making Heracles drunk and slept unwittingly with each of his fifty daughters, including Eurytele. The hero having thought that his bed-fellow was always the same. Thespius intended this to happen because he strongly desired that all his daughters should have children by Hercules. [5] In another version of the myth, the latter had an intercourse with Eurytele and her siblings for one week, [6] seven laid with Heracles each night. [7]
In some accounts, Heracles bedded in a single night [8] with Eurytele and her sisters except for one who refused to have a connection with him. The hero thinking that he had been insulted, condemned her to remain a virgin all her life, serving him as his priest. [9]