Tyrimmas, King of Dodona
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Tyrimmas (Greek
: ) was a King of Dodona
in Epirus
. His daughter Euippe
bore Odysseus
a son, Euryalus
, who was later mistakenly slain by his father.
Tyrimmas
Tyrimmas may refer to:*Tyrimmas of Macedon third king after Caranus and Coenus.*Tyrimmas, King of Dodona in Epirus. His daughter Euippe bore Odysseus a son, Euryalus, who was later mistakenly slain by his father...
Tyrimmas (Greek
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...
: ) was a King of Dodona
Dodona
Dodona in Epirus in northwestern Greece, was an oracle devoted to a Mother Goddess identified at other sites with Rhea or Gaia, but here called Dione, who was joined and partly supplanted in historical times by the Greek god Zeus.The shrine of Dodona was regarded as the oldest Hellenic oracle,...
in Epirus
Epirus
The name Epirus, from the Greek "Ήπειρος" meaning continent may refer to:-Geographical:* Epirus - a historical and geographical region of the southwestern Balkans, straddling modern Greece and Albania...
. His daughter Euippe
Euippe (daughter of Tyrimmas)
Evippe , daughter of Tyrimmas, King of Dodona, She bore Odysseus a son, Euryalus, who was later mistakenly slain by his father....
bore Odysseus
Odysseus
Odysseus or Ulysses was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....
a son, Euryalus
Euryalus
Euryalus refers to several different characters from Greek mythology and classical literature:#In the Aeneid by Virgil, Nisus and Euryalus are ideal friends and lovers, who died during a raid on the Rutulians.# Euryalus was the son of Mecisteus...
, who was later mistakenly slain by his father.