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' ''Compendium Theologiae Graecae'', Eurydome (; ) was the mother of the

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(a role normally attributed to the similarly named

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). Cornutus, ''Compendium Theologiae Graecae'', 15 (Torres, pp. 15–6).

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* Torres, José B., ''Lucius Annaeus Cornutus: Compendium de Graecae Theologiae traditionibus'',

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