Epopeus

In Greek mythology, Epopeus (/ɪˈpoʊpiːəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἐπωπεύς, romanized: Epōpeús, lit. 'all-seer', derived from ἐπωπάω (epōpáō, "to look out", "observe"), from ἐπί (epí, "over") and ὄψ (óps, "eye")) was the name of the following figures:

  • Epopeus, king of Sicyon.[1]
  • Epopeus, king of Lesbos and both father and rapist of Nyctimene.[2]
  • Epopeus, one of the sailors who tried to delude Dionysus, but were turned into dolphins.[3]
  • Epopeus, a man from Lemnos, killed by the Lemnian women when they murdered all the men in the island. Epopeus was killed by his own mother.[4]
  1. ^ Apollodorus, 1.7.4 & 3.5.5
  2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 204 & 253
  3. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 134; Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.581–691
  4. ^ Statius, Thebaid 5.225