Eriphyle
mythological figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
hateful Eriphyle · man-conquering Eriphyle
in the texts
Stromata
Mythological figure who accepted gold in exchange for betraying her husband, cited as an example of desire's power.
but desire, ten thousand others — Phaedra, Antheia, Eriphyle, "who received precious gold for her dear husband.
Odyssey
Heroine condemned as 'hateful' for having sold her own husband for gold.
"I also saw Maira and Klymene and hateful Eriphyle, who sold her own husband for gold.
Nemean
Wife of Amphiaraus, given to him in marriage by the sons of Talaus as a political pledge.
The sons of Talaus gave man-conquering Eriphyle, as a faithful pledge, in marriage to Amphiaraus son of Oicles, and became the most powerful of the golden-haired Danaans;
Republic
Mythological figure who accepted a golden necklace as a bribe that led to the death of her husband Amphiaraus
Or is it conceivable that, while, if the taking of the gold enslaved his son or daughter and that too to fierce and evil men, it would not profit him, no matter how large the sum, yet that, if the result is to be the ruthless enslavement of the divinest part of himself to the most despicable and godless part, he is not to be deemed wretched and is not taking the golden bribe much more disastrously …