Eury'dice
(
Εὐρυδίκη).
The most celebrated of the many mythical personages bearing this name is Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus. [ORPHEUS.] There are seven others beside, viz. one of the Danaides (
Apollod. 2.1.5), a daughter of Adrastus and mother of Laomedon (
Apollod. 3.12.3), a daughter of Lacedaemon and wife of Acrisius (
Apollod. 2.2.2,
3.10.3;
Paus. 3.13.6), a daughter of Clymenus and wife of Nestor (
Hom. Od. 3.452), the wife of Lycurgus and mother of Archemorus (
Apollod. 1.9.14), the wife of Creon, king of Thebes (Soph.
Antigone), and, according to the "Cypria," the wife of Aeneias. (
Paus. 10.26.1.)
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