Eurytus
Role: father of Iole · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80
The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae says that Stratonica bore Eurytus in the palace as her “well-loved son.” Eurytus had sons Didaeon, Clytius, Toxeus, and Iphitus.
In The Taking of Oechalia, Eurytus is named as the father of Iole, for whose sake Heracles sacked Oechalia.
Relationship record
Life events
- Heracles sacked Oechalia for Iole’s sake.(The Taking of Oechalia · 📍 Oechalia)
The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80
- parent: Stratonica “fair-girdled Stratonica conceived and bare in the palace Eurytus her well-loved son.”
- child: Didaeon “Of him sprang sons, Didaeon and Clytius and god-like Toxeus and Iphitus”
- child: Clytius “Of him sprang sons, Didaeon and Clytius and god-like Toxeus and Iphitus”
- child: Toxeus “Of him sprang sons, Didaeon and Clytius and god-like Toxeus and Iphitus”
- child: Iphitus “Of him sprang sons, Didaeon and Clytius and god-like Toxeus and Iphitus”
The Taking of Oechalia
- child: Iole “An account has there been given of Eurytus and his daughter Iole, for whose sake Heracles sacked Oechalia.”
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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.