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In Greek mythology, there were many women with the name Eur�nom� ("far ruling").

Wife of Ophion and a daughter of Oceanus (may be the same as the following)
An Oceanid who mothered the Charites (may be the same as the following)
Daughter of King Nisus of Megara and mother of Bellerophon by Poseidon according to Hesiod's Catalgue 7 and Hyginus 157.
Mother of Leucothoe whom Helios loved, whose father was the Persian Orchamus, as given by Ovid in Metamorphoses 4.208ff.
Wife of Lycurgus of Arcadia and mother of Amphidamas, Epochus, Ancaeus, and Iasus; from Apollodorus 3.9.2.
Daughter of Iphitus and mother of Adrastus of Argos by Talaus, as given by Hyginus 70.
Waiting woman of Penelope in the Odyssey.

79 Eurynome is an asteroid.

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Greek Mythology: EURYNOME Titan Goddess of Meadows & Pastures (752 words)
	EURYNOME was the TITANIS earth-goddess (perhaps) of flowery water-meadows and pasturelands.
	Eurynome was the third goddess loved by Zeus, after the Titanides Metis and Themis, and she bore him the three Kharites (Graces).
	She was sometimes identified with Eurynome, the wife of Ophion.

Greek Mythology: EURYNOME Titan Queen of Heaven, Goddess of Pastures (665 words)
	EURYNOME was the eldest of the goddess TITANIDES.
	Eurynome was perhaps the same as the Titanis Tethys, whose river-god sons nurtered the grassy pasture-lands (nomia).
	Eurynome and Thetis, who appear together in the story of the nursing of Hephaistos on the banks of the River Okeanos, were probably, in origin, a single goddess, Tethys Eurynome (the Nurse of the Wide Pastures).

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