Eriboea

Family: Greeks · Role: mother of Aias · First appears: Sophocles, Aias — Scene 3

Life events

• Aias entrusts Eurysakes to Teucer and commands him to take the boy to Telamon and Eriboea.(Sophocles, Aias — Scene 3)
  • With: Aias Teucer Eurysakes Telamon
  • “I leave in Teucer. He'll not fail, though now He follow far the chase upon his foes. My trusty warriors, people of the sea, Be this your charge, no less,--and bear to him My clear commandment, that he take this boy Home to my fatherland, and make him known To Telamon, and Eriboea too, My mother.”

Sophocles, Aias — Scene 3

• child: Aias (Aias explicitly identifies Eriboea as his mother.) “To Telamon, and Eriboea too, / My mother.”
• with Teucer (Aias assigns Teucer responsibility for tending Eriboea in her old age.) “My trusty warriors, people of the sea, / Be this your charge, no less,--and bear to him / My clear commandment, that he take this boy / Home to my fatherland, and make him known / To Telamon, and Eriboea too, / My mother. Let him tend them in their age.”
• younger kin: Eurysakes (Aias identifies Eurysakes as his son and names Eriboea as his mother.) “Home to my fatherland, and make him known To Telamon, and Eriboea too, My mother.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.