Evenor
Appearance
Evenor(Ancient Greek:Εὐήνωρor ΕὐήνοραEuenormeans 'joy of men') is the name of a character from the myth ofAtlantisand of several historical figures.
Mythological figures
[edit]- Evenor,father ofCleitobyLeucippe.[1]
- Evenor, the "brazen-tasleted"Achaeanwarrior who participated in theTrojan War.He was fromDulichiumand was slain byParisduring the siege ofTroy.[2]
- Evenor, aTrojansoldier who was killed byNeoptolemusduring the Trojan War.[3]The latter smote Evenor above the flank and drove the spear into his liver which resulted to his swift anguished death.[4]
- Evenor, father ofLeocritus[5]and possibly, ofEvenorides,[6]both wereSuitorsofPenelope.
Historical figures
[edit]- Evenor, aGreekpainter who flourished around 420 BC, the father and teacher of the better-known painterParrhasiusofEphesus.[7]
- Evenor, a Greeksurgeonand medical author who lived in or before the 3rd century BC and apparently wrote about fractures andjoint dislocations;if he is the same as an Evenor quoted byPliny the Elder,he also wrote about the medicinal properties of plants.[8][9]
Notes
[edit]- ^Plato,Critias113c
- ^Quintus Smyrnaeus,1.274–275
- ^Quintus Smyrnaeus, 11.33
- ^Quintus Smyrnaeus, 11.33–35
- ^Homer,Odyssey2.242;Apollodorus,Epitome7.29
- ^Apollodorus, Epitome 7.29
- ^Philip Smith (1867)."Evenor".InWilliam Smith(ed.).Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 84. Archived fromthe originalon 2007-09-07.Retrieved2007-11-30.
- ^William Alexander Greenhill (1867)."Evenor".In William Smith (ed.).Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 84. Archived fromthe originalon 2007-09-07.Retrieved2007-11-30.
- ^Pliny the Elder,Natural History20.73,21.105
References
[edit]- Apollodorus,The Librarywith 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.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Homer,The Odysseywith an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919.ISBN978-0674995611.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Pliny the Elder,The Natural History.John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pliny the Elder,Naturalis Historia.Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troytranslated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913.Online version at theoi.com
- Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troy.Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.