Epimétheus: brother of Prometheus (q.v.). The name was taken to mean ‘After-thinker’, and hence arose a notion that he ‘thought too late’.
Erasístrătus: a very distinguished physician in the earlier part of the third century B.C. He practised and taught in Syria and Alexandria. An eminent student of anatomy.
Eratósthĕnes: librarian of Alexandria under the Ptolemies; a writer on mathematical geography, history, and grammar. Died about 196 B.C.
Érĕsus: a town on the south-west coast of Lesbos (Mytilene); birthplace of Theophrastus.
Erétria: the second town of Euboea, a little south of Chalcis. See Lelantum.
Erínys: a spirit of vengeance sent up from the underworld to punish unnatural crimes and offences.
Éteŏcles: (legendary): son of Oedipus, joint king of Thebes with Polyneices, whom he expelled through a selfish desire to rule alone.
Euénus: two poets of Paros are so named, one of the date of Socrates and one earlier. It is, and was anciently, difficult to distinguish between the two.
Eúmĕnes: an eminent and very able general (and also secretary) of Alexander, after whose death he obtained (322 B.C.) the chief command in Asia. His subordinate Neoptolemus, governor of Armenia, made head against him with the help of Craterus. Their defeat, mentioned in the article on Garrulity, took place in Cappadocia in 321 B.C.
Eúpŏlis: one of the three chief poets of the ‘old’ comedy of Athens, a contemporary of Aristophanes (q.v.).