Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- water deity
- Gender
- female
- Spouse
- Ophion
- Child
- Asopus
- Father
- Oceanus
- Mother
- Tethys
- Image
- Greek Eros vase.png
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- described by source
- Description of Greece
- Commons category
- Eurynome (oceanid)
- worshipped by
- Ancient Greek religion
- unmarried partner
- Zeus
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Encyclopedic overview
Eurynome (/jʊˈrɪnəmiː/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυνόμη, romanized: Eurynómē) was a deity of ancient Greek religion worshipped at a sanctuary near the confluence of rivers called the Neda and the Lymax in classical Peloponnesus. She was represented by a statue of what we would call a mermaid. Tradition, as reported by the Greek traveller, Pausanias, identified her with the Oceanid, or "daughter of Ocean", of Greek poetry.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eurynome” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.