Callileon

First appears: Apollodorus, Epitome 2

Life events

• Atreus murdered Thyestes’ sons, served them to their father, and expelled him.(Apollodorus, Epitome 2)
  • With: Atreus Thyestes Aglaus Orchomenus
  • “But afterwards being apprized of the adultery, he sent a herald to Thyestes with a proposal of accommodation; and when he had lured Thyestes by a pretence of friendship, he slaughtered the sons, Aglaus, Callileon, and Orchomenus, whom Thyestes had by a Naiad nymph, though they had sat down as suppliants on the altar of Zeus. And having cut them limb from limb and boiled them, he served them up to Thyestes without the extremities; and when Thyestes had eaten heartily of them, he showed him the extremities, and cast him out of the country.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 2

• parent: Thyestes (Callileon was Thyestes's son.) “the sons, Aglaus, Callileon, and Orchomenus, whom Thyestes had by a Naiad nymph”
• with Atreus (Atreus slaughtered Callileon.) “he slaughtered the sons, Aglaus, Callileon, and Orchomenus”
• enemies with Atreus “he slaughtered the sons, Aglaus, Callileon, and Orchomenus”

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