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Euphemus

There are two figures in Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
known as Euphemus (Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ??f?µ??) "reputable".

One was the son of Poseidon

Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
, granted by his father the power to walk on water. Euphemus's mother is variously named: Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, daughter of the giant Tityos

Tityos

Tityos was a giant from Greek mythology. He was the son of Elara; his father was Zeus. Zeus hid Elara from his wife, Hera, by placing her deep beneath the earth....
; Oris

Oris

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, daughter of Orion

Orion (mythology)

Orion was a giant hunting of Greek mythology whom Zeus placed among the stars as the Orion .Ancient sources tell several different stories about Orion....
; or Macionice, daughter of Eurotas

Eurotas

In Greek mythology, Eurotas was a son of Myles and grandson of Lelex. He was the father of Sparta by Clete. He was the brother of Lacedaemon, who was also the husband of his daughter Sparta, according to Pausanias ....
. His residence is given as Panopeus

Panopeus

Panopeus , or Phanoteus , was an ancient Greek town of Phocis, near the frontier of Boeotia, and on the road from Daulis to Chaeronea. Pausanias said that Panopeus was 20 stades from Chaeronea and 7 from Daulis; but the latter number is almost certainly a mistake....
in Phocis

Phocis

Phocis is an ancient district and a modern Prefectures of Greece of Greece, located in Central Greece, stretching from the western mountainsides of Mount Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth....
, or Hyria

Hyria

Hyria may refer to:*Hyria , an ancient town in Boeotia.*Hyria , an ancient town in Campania, a short distance east of Nuceria Altaferna.*Hyria, a principal Messapii town in ancient Messapia, corresponding to the modern town Oria ....
in Boeotia

Boeotia

Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
, or Taenarum

Taenarum

Taenarum or Cape Tenaron is where Hercules went to find the entrance to Hades to fulfill his last labor of capturing Cerberus. This was also the route that Psyche used to retrieve a bit of Persephone's beauty for Aphrodite....
in Laconia

Laconia

Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a Prefectures of Greece, with Sparti its administrative capital....
. Euphemus joined the voyage of the Argonauts

Argonauts

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There are two figures in Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek language

Poseidon

Europe

Tityos

Tityos was a giant from Greek mythology. He was the son of Elara; his father was Zeus. Zeus hid Elara from his wife, Hera, by placing her deep beneath the earth....
; Oris

Oris

Orion (mythology)

Orion was a giant hunting of Greek mythology whom Zeus placed among the stars as the Orion .Ancient sources tell several different stories about Orion....
; or Macionice, daughter of Eurotas

Eurotas

Panopeus

Phocis

Hyria

Boeotia

Taenarum

Laconia

Argonauts

In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece....
, and served the crew well as helmsman. By a Lemnian woman (Malicha, Malache, or Lamache) he became the father of Leucophanes. Medea

Medea

Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Aeetes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres....
prophesied that he would one day rule Libya

Ancient Libya

Ancient Libya was the region west of the Nile Valley. It corresponds to what is now generally called Northwest Africa. Its people were the ancestors of the modern Berber people....
; her prophesy came true when Battus

Battus I of Cyrene

Battus I of Cyrene or Battus I , lived in the 7th century BC. He came from the island of Thera ,and later founded the colony of Cyrenaica and its capital, Cyrene....
of Thera, an alleged distant descendant of Euphemus (by 17 generations), founded Cyrene.

The other Euphemus, son of Troezenus, was a leader of the Thracian

Thracians

The ancient Thracians were a group of Indo-European peoples who spoke the Thracian language - a scarcely attested branch of the Indo-European language family....
Cicones

Cicones

The Cicones or Ciconians were a Thracian tribe, whose stronghold in the time of Odysseus was the city of Ismara , located at the foot of mount Ismara, on the south coast of Thrace....
, on the side of the Trojans

Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
, mentioned in Book II of the Iliad
ILiad

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