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{{Short description|Greek mythology}}
In [[Greek mythology]], '''Euryopes''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Εὐρυόπης means "wide-eyed") was the [[Thespiae|Thespian]] son of [[Heracles]] and [[Terpsicrate]],<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.7.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Euryopes 2.7.8]</ref> daughter of King [[Thespius]] of [[Thespiae]].<ref>Apollodorus, 2.4.10</ref>
== Mythology ==
Euryopes and his 49 half-brothers were born of Thespius' daughters who were impregnated by Heracles in one night,<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, ''Orat.'' IV, ''Contra Julianum'' I (Migne ''S. Gr.'' 35.661)</ref> for a week<ref>[[Athenaeus]], 13.4 with [[Herodorus]] as the authority; [[Diodorus Siculus]],  4.29.3, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#note51 f.n. 51]</ref> or in the course of 50 days<ref>Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]], ''Chiliades'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/TzetzesChiliades2.html 2.224]</ref> while hunting for the [[Lion of Cithaeron|Cithaeronian lion]].<ref>Apollodorus, 2.4.9–10</ref> Later on, the hero sent a message to Thespius to keep seven of these sons and send three of them in [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]] while the remaining forty, joined by [[Iolaus]], were dispatched to the island of [[Sardinia]] to found a colony.<ref>Apollodorus, 2.7.6</ref>
== Notes ==
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== References ==
* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
* [[Athenaeus|Athenaeus of Naucratis]], ''The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned.'' London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0003 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* Athenaeus of Naucratis, ''Deipnosophistae''. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0001 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''The Library of History'' translated by [[Charles Henry Oldfather]]. Twelve volumes. [[Loeb Classical Library]]. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
* Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2''. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
* Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes, John]], ''Book of Histories,'' Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/TzetzesChiliades2.html Online version at theio.com]
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