Epopeus

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Template:Short description In Greek mythology, Epopeus (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Langx, derived from Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang"., "to look out", "observe"), from Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang"., "over") and Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang"., "eye")) was the name of the following figures:

  • Epopeus, king of Sicyon.[1]
  • Epopeus, king of Lesbos and both father and rapist of Nyctimene.[2]
  • Epopeus, one of the sailors who tried to delude Dionysus, but were turned into dolphins.[3]
  • Epopeus, a man from Lemnos, killed by the Lemnian women when they murdered all the men in the island. Epopeus was killed by his own mother.[4]

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References

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  1. Apollodorus, 1.7.4 & 3.5.5
  2. Hyginus, Fabulae 204 & 253
  3. Hyginus, Fabulae 134; Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.581–691
  4. Statius, Thebaid 5.225