Echephron

First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 24

In Book 8, Chapter 24, Echephron is named as a son of Psophis and Hercules, alongside Promachus. At Phegia, Echephron and Promachus changed the place’s name to Psophis after their mother; the account also says that the sons of Psophis built a temple there to Aphrodite surnamed Erycina, now in ruins.

Relationship record

Life events

• Echephron and Promachus changed Phegia’s name to Psophis after their mother.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · 📍 Phegia)
  • With: Promachus (son of Hercules) Hercules
  • “Echephron and Promachus (her sons by Hercules) who were brought up there changed the name of Phegia into Psophis after their mother’s name.”

Book 8 · Chapter 24

• parent: Psophis (daughter of Eryx) “Echephron and Promachus (her sons by Hercules)”
• parent: Hercules “Echephron and Promachus (her sons by Hercules)”
• with Psophis (daughter of Eryx) (interaction) “the sons of Psophis”
• with Aphrodite (interaction) “a temple of Aphrodite surnamed Erycina, which is now only in ruins, and was built (so the story goes) by the sons of Psophis”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.