InGreek mythology,Eurynomos (/jʊəˈrɪnəməs/;Ancient Greek:Εὐρύνομος) was anunderworld-dwellingdaimon (or spirit) who consumed the flesh of corpses.^[1]

The sole piece of evidence concerning Eurynomos comes fromPausanias,^[2] in his description of a painting ofHades byPolygnotus atDelphi,Phocis:^[3]

Eurynomus, said by the Delphian guides to be one of the demons in Hades, who eats off all the flesh of the corpses, leaving only their bones. ButHomer'sOdyssey, the poem called theMinyad, and theReturns, although they tell of Hades, and its horrors, know of no demon called Eurynomus. However, I will describe what he is like and his attitude in the painting. He is of a color between blue and black, like that of meat flies; he is showing his teeth and is seated, and under him is spread a vulture's skin.

Carl Robert believed Eurynomus to beThanatos, the god of death, whereas according toFriedrich Adolf Voigt [de] he was a daimon of decay.^[4]

• Keres – Greek goddesses of violent death
• Shikome – Undead hag in Japanese mythology
• Datsue-ba – Japanese Buddhist deity

• Hard, Robin,The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", London and New York, Routledge, 2004.ISBN 020344633X.doi:10.4324/9780203446331.
• Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN 0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Smith, William,Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873).Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

• Miriam Van Scott,The Encyclopedia of Hell

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