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Eurydamas

2. One of the suitors of Penelope, who was killed by Odysseus. (Hom. Od. 18.297, 22.283.) There are two more mythical personages of this name (Apollod. 2.1.5; Hom. Il. 5.148), which Ovid (lb. 331) uses as a surname of Hector in the sense of "ruling far and wide."

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.