Eurypyle (mythology)

Eurypyle (mythology)

Eurypyle my be:

# Eurypyle, one of the fifty daughters of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son, Archedicus [Apollodorus, "The Library", 2.7.8]
# Eurypyle, a maenad. She was a follower of Dionysus and was killed by Morrheus. [Nonnus, "Dionysiaca", 30.222]
#Eurypyle, an Amazon leader who invaded Ninus and Babylonia, mentioned by Eustathius "ad Dion. Per." 772. [F. A. Ukert, "Die Amazonen", Abhandlungen der philosophisch-philologischen Classe der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1849).]

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