Eurycleia

(Εὐρύκλεια).

1. According to a Thessalian tradition, a daughter of Athamas and Themisto, and the wife of Melas, by whom she became the mother of Hyperes. (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. 4.221.)

2. A daughter of Ops, was purchased by Laertes and brought up Telemachus. When Odysseus returned home, she recognized him, though he was in the disguise of a beggar, by a scar, and afterwards she faithfully assisted him against the suitors. (Hom. Od. 1.429, &c., 4.742, &c., 19.385, &c., xxii. xxiii.) [L.S]