Euphemus

Euphemos (Greek Εὔφημος ) is a figure from Greek mythology. He was the son of Poseidon and Oceanid Europe and husband of the sister of Heracles, Laonome.

Euphemos had from his father the gift to walk on the sea, and took part in the voyage of the Argonauts. As the heroes came to the Tritonis, Triton gave him a clod country, and Medea prophesied when he throw the same into Hades input on taenaron, so his descendants would become the ruler of Libya in the fourth limb. However, since the soil was lost in the island of Thera, so first had to occupy the island, founded by the first of Battus, his descendant in the 17th generation, Cyrene in Libya his descendants. Pindar used the myth to glorify the victory of Arcesilaus of Cyrene.