Eriphyle
Family: Argos · Role: wife of Amphiaraus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9
Life events
- Eriphyle accepts Polynices' necklace and persuades Amphiaraus to join the war.(Apollodorus, Library 3.6)
- With: Polynices Amphiaraus
- “Accordingly, when war was to be made on Thebes , and the measure was advocated by Adrastus and opposed by Amphiaraus, Eriphyle accepted the necklace and persuaded him to march with Adrastus.”
- Alcmaeon kills his mother Eriphyle after learning she was bribed against him.(Apollodorus, Library 3.7)
- With: Alcmaeon
- “After the capture of Thebes , when Alcmaeon learned that his mother Eriphyle had been bribed to his undoing also, he was more incensed than ever, and in accordance with an oracle given to him by Apollo he killed his mother.”
Apollodorus, Library 1.9
- parent: Talaus “and had by her Adrastus, Parthenopaeus, Pronax, Mecisteus, Aristomachus, and Eriphyle”
- married with Amphiaraus “whom Amphiaraus married.”
Apollodorus, Library 3.6
- with Polynices (Polynices gave Eriphyle a necklace to influence her decision.) “But Polynices gave her the necklace and begged her to persuade Amphiaraus to go to the war;”
- with Amphiaraus (Eriphyle persuaded Amphiaraus to join the expedition.) “Eriphyle accepted the necklace and persuaded him to march with Adrastus.”
Apollodorus, Library 3.7
- child: Alcmaeon “when Alcmaeon learned that his mother Eriphyle had been bribed to his undoing also”
- with Alcmaeon (interaction) “he killed his mother”
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