In Greek mythology, Eurycleia, or Euryclea, is the daughter of Ops and granddaughter of Peisenor, as well as the wet-nurse of Odysseus.
Euryclea recognises Odysseus, 4th-century BC votive relief from Thessaly, Greece.
Gustave Boulanger, Ulysse et Euryclée (1849)
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In Greek mythology, Anticlea or Anticlia was a queen of Ithaca as the wife of King Laërtes.
Eurycleia (nurse of Odysseus)
…was bought by Laertes, Odysseus' father. He treated her as his wife, but she was never his consummated lover so as not to dishonor his real wife, Anticleia. She later nursed Telemachus, Odysseus' son. Eurycleia was the only person to recognize Odysseus without him first revealing himself (as he did to…
A painting of Tiresias (left) with Anticlea by his side in the Underworld by Henry Fuseli.