Euaemon

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 naiad Cyllene,[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]
  • Euaemon, son of King Ormenus of Ormenium[7] and thus, brother to Amyntor (otherwise also called his father). He was the father of Eurypylus[8] by Deipyle (Deityche)[9] or Ops.[10]
  • Euaemon, a city mentioned in Stephanus of Byzantium' s Ethnika, otherwise unknown
  1. ^ Plato, Critias 113d
  2. ^ Plato, Critias 114a-c
  3. ^ Plato, Critias 114d
  4. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
  5. ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6
  6. ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1
  7. ^ Homer, Iliad 10.254
  8. ^ Pausanias, 7.19.6, 7.19.10 & 10.27.2
  9. ^ Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad Prologue 619 - 620
  10. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97