Eriboea
deity earth Greek single tradition · 2
Eriboea is mentioned as the wife of Telemon in Hesiod's 'The Great Eoiae', where Heracles prays to Zeus for a son to be born to them.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 1700
- Historical notes
- Referenced by Homer, Virgil, and Ovid.
Relationships
- consort of
- Telamon
- co occurs with
- Ephialtes, Otus, Elate, Platanus, Aloads, nymph of the Styx, Zeus, Heracles, Achilles, Periboea, Peleus, Ajax, Aeacus, Teucer
- allied with
- Hermes
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“Heracles prays to Zeus that a son might be born to Telemon and Eriboea”
#11585 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“And that would have been the end of Ares and his appetite for war, if the beautiful Eriboea, the young giants' stepmother, had not told Hermes what they had done”
#42279 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001