Eriboea
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
mother
in the texts
Isthmean
Wife of Telamon, mother of Aias, named in Heracles's prayer to Zeus.
I entreat you to grant this man a brave son from Eriboea, a son fated to be my guest-friend.
Ajax
Ajax's mother, named when Ajax instructs that his son be brought home to comfort his parents.
Your spear ravaged my country to nothingness, and another fate has brought down my mother and father, giving them a home in Hades in their death.
Surely his mother, companion of antiquity and grey with age, when she hears that he has been afflicted with the ruin of his mind will raise a loud cry of wailing.
Let him take this child to my home and set him before the face of Telamon, and of my mother, Eriboea, so that he may become the comfort of their age into eternity.