Eurydice () was an

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woman of a family descended from

Miltiades Miltiades (; ; c. 550 – 489 BC), also known as Miltiades the Younger, was a Greek Athenian statesman known mostly for his role in the Battle of Marathon, as well as for his downfall afterwards. He was the son of Cimon Coalemos, a renowned ...

. She was first married to the

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commander

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, the conqueror and ruler of Cyrene, and after his death returned to Athens, where she married

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, on occasion of his first visit to that city. She is said to have had by him a son called Corrhabus.

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