What is "euphorion"

Euphorion may refer to:

• Euphorion of Chalcis (born c. 275 BC), Greek poet and grammarian
• Euphorion (playwright), Attic tragic playwright and son of Aeschylus
• Euphorion (mythology), son of Achilles and Helen of Troy
• Euphorion, a character in Goethe's Faust, Part 2, the offspring of Faust and Helen of Troy
• Euphorion (journal), a German-language academic journal of literary studies
• Euphorion Books, a publishing company formed by Diana Mosley and her husband, Sir Oswald Mosley, publisher of The European (1953 magazine)

In Greek mythology, Euphorion (, "the abundant") was the son of Achilles and Helen. He was born when his parents had already been dwelling in the Land of the Blessed, and was named "after the fertility of the land". He had a pair of wings.

For unknown reasons, Euphorion became the object of Zeus' wrath. Zeus caught him on the island of Milos and killed him with a thunderbolt. He further prohibited to bury Euphorion; the island nymphs did bury him nevertheless and were changed into frogs for having disobeyed Zeus.

Euphorion (, Euphoríōn) was the son of the Greek tragedian Aeschylus, and himself an author of tragedies. In the Dionysia of 431 BCE, Euphorion won 1st prize, defeating both Sophocles (who took 2nd prize) and Euripides, who took 3rd prize with a tetralogy that includes the extant play Medea. He is purported by some to have been the author of Prometheus Bound—previously assumed to be the work of his father, to whom it was attributed at the Library of Alexandria,—for several reasons, chiefly that the playwright's portrayal of Zeus is far less reverent than in other works attributed to Aeschylus, and that references to the play appear in the plays of the comic Aristophanes. This has led historians to date it as late as 415 BCE, long after Aeschylus's death. If Euphorion wrote Prometheus Bound, there are as a result four (rather than three) ancient Greek tragedians with one or more fully surviving plays.

Euphorion is a German-language academic journal for history of literature. It was established in 1894 by . From 1934 until 1944 it appeared under the title Dichtung und Volkstum.