Eurydice
Family: Egyptian · Role: wife of Philip · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 6
In Book 1, Chapter 6, Eurydice is identified as the daughter of Antipater and wife of Ptolemy (son of Lagus). Berenice had been sent into Egypt as her companion, and in Chapter 9 Lysandra is named as the daughter of Ptolemy and Eurydice.
In Book 3, Chapter 13, Eurydice is called the daughter of Lacedæmon and wife of Acrisius, and is said to have erected a temple to Argive Hera. At Altis in Book 5, Chapter 20, she is represented in an ivory-and-gold statue by Leochares, alongside statues of Philip, Alexander, Amyntas, and Olympias. Later accounts connect her with Orpheus, who lost her after turning back to look at her, and with Aeneas, whom some authors name as her husband.
Relationship record
Life events
- Eurydice erected a temple to Argive Hera.(Book 3 · Chapter 13)
- “on the hill is a temple of Argive Hera, erected they say by Eurydice the daughter of Lacedæmon”
- Leochares created ivory-and-gold statues of Philip, Alexander, Amyntas, Olympias, and Eurydice.(Book 5 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Altis)
- With: Philip (son of Amyntas) Alexander (son of Philip) Amyntas Leochares Olympias
- “And there are statues there of Philip, and Alexander, and Amyntas the father of Philip. They are by Leochares in ivory and gold, like the statues of Olympias and Eurydice.”
- Orpheus lost Eurydice after turning back and killed himself from grief.(Book 9 · Chapter 30 · 📍 Aornus in Thesprotia)
- With: Orpheus
- “Others have recorded that, his wife Eurydice having died before him, he went to Aornus in Thesprotia, to consult an oracle of the dead about her, and he thought that her soul would follow him, but losing her because he turned back to look at her he slew himself from grief.”
Book 1 · Chapter 6
- married with Ptolemy (son of Lagus) “who, though married to Eurydice, the daughter of Antipater”
- parent: Antipater (Macedonian statesman) “Eurydice, the daughter of Antipater”
- with Berenice (They were companions.) “Berenice, (whom Antipater had sent into Egypt as a companion to Eurydice)”
Book 1 · Chapter 9
- child: Lysandra “Lysandra, the daughter of Ptolemy Lagus and Eurydice.”
Book 3 · Chapter 13
- parent: Lacedæmon “Eurydice the daughter of Lacedæmon”
- married with Acrisius “the wife of Acrisius the son of Abas”
Book 5 · Chapter 20
- with Leochares (Leochares made the statue of Eurydice.) “And there are statues there of Philip, and Alexander, and Amyntas the father of Philip. They are by Leochares in ivory and gold, like the statues of Olympias and Eurydice.”
Book 9 · Chapter 30
- married with Orpheus “he went down alive to Hades to get back his wife Eurydice from the gods of the lower world”
Book 10 · Chapter 26
- married with Aeneas “though Lescheos and the author of the Cyprian Poems represent Eurydice as the wife of Æneas”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.