Eupolis. Among the most famous poets of the Old Comedy, with Aristophanes and Cratinus.
Euripides. The most philosophic of the Greek tragedians. Born 480 B.C., died 406 B.C. at the court of Archelaus, king of Macedonia, whither he had retired from Athens about 408 B.C.
Europa. Daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor, and sister of Cadmus; carried away by Zeus, who assumed the form of a white bull.
Eurybatus. An Ephesian who betrayed Croesus to Cyrus, and became a byword for treachery.
Eurydice. See Orpheus.
Eurystheus. King of Tiryns. See Heracles.
Eury̆tus. King of Oechalia; challenged Apollo to a match with the bow, and was killed for his presumption.
Euxine. 'The hospitable' (εὔξενος); a euphemism for 'the inhospitable,' ἄξενος. The Black Sea.
Exadius. One of the Lapithae, who were assisted by Nestor in their fight against the Centaurs.
Fates. The Three Sisters to whose power even the Gods must submit, and who regulate every human life. Clotho holds the distaff, Lachesis spins, and Atropus cuts the thread of life. Lucian also gives them other functions.