Galaxy/The codex of Eudora

In Greek mythology, Eudora or Eudore (Ancient Greek: Εὐδώρη, "she of good gifts") was one of the three thousand Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Hesiod names her among the eldest daughters in the closing Oceanid catalogue of the Theogony. She is distinct from Eudora the Nereid and from Eudora among the Hyades.

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I.Oceanid of Hesiod

Hesiod names Eudora in the elder company of Oceanids who conclude his register: after Telesto saffron-clad, Chryseis, Asia, and Calypso come Eudora and Tyche, then Amphirho, Ocyrrhoe, and Styx chiefest of all (Theogony 358–361). These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys — Eudora's only attestation in the Theogony is this list-line.

As an Oceanid she belongs to the vast sisterhood of water-nymphs who, in Hesiod's scheme, serve as attendants and personifications of springs, rivers, and gifts of the waters.

II.Homonyms

The name Eudora appears under other genealogies. Hesiod's Nereid catalogue gives a different Eudora as daughter of Doris and Nereus among the fifty sea-nymphs (Theogony 243; Apollodorus 1.2.7). Hyginus later names yet another Eudora among the Hyades. This atlas entry (eudora-oceanid) is the Oceanid daughter of Oceanus and Tethys alone.

AT A GLANCE

Greek nameEudōra (Εὐδώρα)
Roman nameEudora
Typenymph
Domainseldest daughters of Ocean · good-gift Oceanid · catalogue node — thin standalone myth
ParentageOceanus · Tethys
EtymologyΕὐδώρη means "she of good gifts."
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