Eurynome
mythological figure · 4 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages
the daughter of Ocean
in the texts
Odyssey
Penelope's waiting woman, who answers her mistress's curse against Antinoos.
Now when Penelope heard that the beggar had been struck in the banqueting-room, she said before her maids, "Would that Apollo would so strike you, Antinoos," and her waiting woman Eurynome answered, "If our prayers were answered not one of the suitors would ever again see the sun rise.
On this the old woman went out of the room to bid the maids go to their mistress.
So she feigned a mocking laugh and said, "Eurynome, I have changed my and have a fancy to show myself to the suitors although I detest them.
Theogony
A daughter of Ocean, third wife of Zeus, mother of the three Charites (Graces).
And Eurynome, the daughter of Ocean, beautiful in form, bore him three fair-cheeked Charites (Graces), Aglaea, and Euphrosyne, and lovely Thaleia, from whose eyes as they glanced flowed love that unnerves the limbs:
Iliad
Daughter of Okeanos who, with Thetis, sheltered the infant Hephaistos after his fall from Olympus.
It would have gone hardly with me had not Eurynome, daughter of the ever-encircling waters of Okeanos, and Thetis, taken me to their bosom.
On Benefits
Mythological mother of the three Graces, whose name Chrysippus interprets as meaning wide distribution of an estate
that she was called Eurynome because to distribute benefits belongs to one of a widely extending estate, as though a mother were usually named after her daughters, or as though poets gave true names!