Euaemon

In Greek mythology, Euaemon or Euaimon (Ancient Greek: Εὐαίμων) may refer to the following personages and a place:

Euaemon, son of King Ormenus of Ormenium[1] and thus, brother to Amyntor (otherwise also called his father). He was the father of Eurypylus by Deipyle (Deityche)[2] or Ops.[3]
Euaemon, son of King Lycaon of Arcadia.[4]
Euaemon, one of the ten sons of Poseidon and Cleito in Plato's myth of Atlantis.[5] He was the younger brother of Ampheres and his other siblings were Atlas and Eumelus, Mneseus and Autochthon, Elasippus and Mestor, and lastly, Azaes and Diaprepes.[6] Evaemon, along with his nine siblings, became the heads of ten royal houses, each ruling a tenth portion of the island, according to a partition made by Poseidon himself, but all subject to the supreme dynasty of Atlas who was the eldest of the ten.[7]
Euaemon, a city mentioned in Stephanus of Byzantium' s Ethnika, otherwise unknown

Notes

Homer, Iliad 10.254
Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad Prologue 619 - 620
Hyginus, Fabulae 97
Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.8.1
Plato, Critias 113d
Plato, Critias 114a-c

Plato, Critias 114d

References

Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4

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