Electryon

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.4

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Electryon)

Life events

Amphitryon accidentally killed Electryon; Sthenelus banished him and seized Mycenae and Tiryns.(Apollodorus, Library 2.4 · 📍 Argos)
- With: Amphitryon Sthenelus Atreus Thyestes
- “However, as he was receiving the cows back, one of them charged, and Amphitryon threw at her the club which he had in his hands. But the club rebounded from the cow's horns and striking Electryon's head killed him. Hence Sthenelus laid hold of this pretext to banish Amphitryon from the whole of Argos, while he himself seized the throne of Mycenae and Tiryns; and he entrusted Midea to Atreus and Thyestes, the sons of Pelops, whom he had sent for.”

parent: Perseus “and in Mycenae he had Alcaeus and Sthenelus and Heleus and Mestor and Electryon”
married with Anaxo “Electryon married Anaxo, daughter of Alcaeus”
child: Alcmena “and begat a daughter Alcmena”
child: Licymnius “and after these he had also a bastard son, Licymnius, by a Phrygian woman Midea.”
parent: Andromeda “he had sons by Andromeda”
ward: Amphitryon “Electryon purposed to make war on the Teleboans, but first he committed the kingdom to Amphitryon along with his daughter Alcmena”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.