Echion

Family: earth-born men · Role: one of the five survivors · First appears: Fable 31

Life events

The earth-born warriors kill one another, leaving five survivors including Echion.(Fable31)
- “And now the youths that had the space of {so} short an existence allotted them, beat with throbbing breast their blood-stained mother, five {only} remaining, of whom Echion[13] was one.”
Cadmus builds the city ordered by Phœbus with five surviving earth-born warriors as associates.(Fable31 · 📍 Thebes)
- With: Cadmus Apollo
- “The Sidonian stranger had these as associates in his task, when he built the city that was ordered by the oracle of Phœbus.”

with Cadmus (Echion is one of the five associates referred to as “these.”) “The Sidonian stranger had these as associates in his task, when he built the city that was ordered by the oracle of Phœbus.”

child: Pentheus “Yet Pentheus,[79] the son of Echion, a contemner of the Gods above”

parent: Mercury “He was an Arcadian, the son of Mercury and the Nymph Antianira”
parent: Antianira “He was an Arcadian, the son of Mercury and the Nymph Antianira”

with Cybele (Echion built a temple for Cybele.) “They were passing by a temple, concealed within a shady wood, which the famous Echion had formerly built for the Mother of the Gods, according to his vow;”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.