Echion

Family: Theban · Role: father of Pentheus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.4

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Echion) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Echion)

Life events

Cadmus killed the dragon; armed men arose from its teeth, and five Sparti survived.(Apollodorus, Library 3.4 · 📍 the spring of Ares)
- With: Cadmus
- “In his indignation Cadmus killed the dragon, and by the advice of Athena sowed its teeth. When they were sown there rose from the ground armed men whom they called Sparti. These slew each other, some in a chance brawl, and some in ignorance. But Pherecydes says that when Cadmus saw armed men growing up out of the ground, he flung stones at them, and they, supposing that they were being pelted by each other, came to blows. However, five of them survived, Echion, Udaeus, Chthonius, Hyperenor, and Pelorus.”

married with Agave “Ino was married to Athamas, Autonoe to Aristaeus, and Agave to Echion.”

child: Pentheus (Echion is Pentheus's father.) “But Pentheus, whom Agave bore to Echion, had succeeded Cadmus in the kingdom, and he attempted to put a stop to these proceedings.”

parent: Portheus “The first, Echion, son of Portheus, was killed by leaping from it;”

courtship with Penelope “Calydoneus, Echion, Lamas”
admired: Penelope “From Dulichium came fifty-seven: Amphinomus, Thoas, Demoptolemus, Amphimachus, Euryalus, Paralus, Evenorides, Clytius, Agenor, Eurypylus, Pylaemenes, Acamas, Thersilochus, Hagius, Clymenus, Philodemus, Meneptolemus, Damastor, Bias, Telmius, Polyidus, Astylochus, Schedius, Antigonus, Marpsius, Iphidamas, Argius, Glaucus, Calydoneus, Echion, Lamas, Andraemon, Agerochus, Medon, Agrius, Promus, Ctesius, Acarnan, Cycnus, Pseras, Hellanicus, Periphron, Megasthenes, Thrasymedes, Ormenius, Diopithes, Mecisteus, Antimachus, Ptolemaeus, Lestorides, Nicomachus, Polypoetes, and Ceraus.”

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