Eurytion

Family: Phthia · Role: son of Actor · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.8

Life events

The Calydonian hunt caused Hyleus, Ancaeus, and Eurytion to die.(Apollodorus, Library 1.8 · 📍 Calydon)
- With: Hyleus Ancaeus Peleus
- “When they surrounded the boar, Hyleus and Ancaeus were killed by the brute, and Peleus struck down Eurytion undesignedly with a javelin.”
Peleus accidentally killed Eurytion while hunting the Calydonian boar.(Apollodorus, Library 3.13 · 📍 Calydonian)
- With: Peleus
- “but in throwing a dart at the hog he involuntarily struck and killed Eurytion.”
Heracles slew Geryones, Orthus, and Eurytion while driving the oxen to Tiryns.(Hesiod, Theogony 139-265 · 📍 Erythea)
- With: Heracles Geryones Orthus
- “But Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of glorious Ocean, and begot three-headed Geryones. Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns, and had crossed the ford of Ocean and killed Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead out beyond glorious Ocean.”

parent: Actor “Eurytion, son of Actor”
with Peleus (interaction) “Peleus struck down Eurytion undesignedly with a javelin”
with Peleus (Peleus accidentally killed Eurytion.) “Peleus struck down Eurytion undesignedly with a javelin.”

courtship with Mnesimache “his daughter Mnesimache to the centaur Eurytion”
employer: Geryones “He owned red kine, of which Eurytion was the herdsman”
engaged with Mnesimache (Mnesimache was being betrothed to Eurytion.) “his daughter Mnesimache to the centaur Eurytion,”

with Heracles (interaction) “and had crossed the ford of Ocean and killed Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead out beyond glorious Ocean.”

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