Eudora

This name derives from the Ancient Greek “Eudóra (Ευδώρα),” composed of two elements: “eû ‎(εὖ)” (well) plus “dôron ‎(δῶρον)” (gift). In turn, the name means “good gift, well-gifted.” 1) Eudora was the daughter of Nereus and Doris. Eudora was in the Hyades family (the rainy ones), a sisterhood of nymphs that bring rain. The Hyades were daughters of Atlas. The Hyades are sisters to the Pleiades and the Hesperides. 2) In Greek mythology, Eudoros was the second of Achilles’s five commanders at the Trojan War. According to the Iliad, he commanded ten penteconters and five hundred Myrmidons. Eudoros was the son of Hermes and Polymele, who danced in Artemis’s choir. Polymele’s father Phylas brought him up after she married Echekles. Eudoros was very fast and a good fighter. 3) Eudorus of Alexandria was an ancient Greek philosopher and a representative of Middle Platonism. He attempted to reconstruct Plato’s philosophy concerning Pythagoreanism.