Eurydice

Family: Nemea · Role: mother of Opheltes · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.3

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Eurydice)

Eurydice was married to Orpheus. After she died from a snake bite, Orpheus went down to Hades and persuaded Pluto to send her back, but when he looked behind him on the way home, she returned to the underworld.

Eurydice was also married to Lycurgus and was the mother of Opheltes. In another account, Acrisius fathered Danae by her; she is identified as the daughter of Lacedaemon and Sparta, while another tradition calls her the daughter of Adrastus. The material also names her as the wife of Acrisius and Ilus, and as the mother of Laomedon through Ilus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Eurydice died, and Orpheus failed to bring her back from Hades.(Apollodorus, Library 1.3 · 📍 Hades)
  • With: Orpheus Hades
  • “And when his wife Eurydice died, bitten by a snake, he went down to Hades, being fain to bring her up, and he persuaded Pluto to send her up. The god promised to do so, if on the way Orpheus would not turn round until he should be come to his own house. But he disobeyed and turning round beheld his wife; so she turned back.”
• Acrisius fathered Danae by Eurydice.(Apollodorus, Library 2.2)
  • With: Acrisius Danae
  • “And Acrisius had a daughter Danae by Eurydice, daughter of Lacedaemon”

Apollodorus, Library 1.3

• married with Orpheus “And when his wife Eurydice died, bitten by a snake, he went down to Hades, being fain to bring her up,”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• married with Lycurgus “having married Eurydice, or, as some say, Amphithea”

Apollodorus, Library 2.2

• child: Danae “And Acrisius had a daughter Danae by Eurydice, daughter of Lacedaemon,”
• parent: Lacedaemon “And Acrisius had a daughter Danae by Eurydice, daughter of Lacedaemon,”

Apollodorus, Library 3.6

• child: Opheltes “a child of Eurydice and Lycurgus.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.10

• parent: Sparta “Lacedaemon and Sparta ... had a son Amyclas and a daughter Eurydice”
• married with Acrisius “Eurydice, whom Acrisius married.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.12

• married with Ilus “And Ilus married Eurydice, daughter of Adrastus, and begat Laomedon”
• child: Laomedon “And Ilus married Eurydice, daughter of Adrastus, and begat Laomedon”
• parent: Adrastus “Eurydice, daughter of Adrastus”

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