Echion

Family: mythological · Role: father of Pentheus · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 2

In Book 9, Chapter 2, Echion is identified as the father of Pentheus, whose fate on Mount Cithæron is said to be unknown. By Chapter 5, Cadmus has chosen Echion as his son-in-law for his “conspicuous valour.”

Relationship record

Book 9 · Chapter 2

• child: Pentheus “In what part of Mount Cithæron Pentheus the son of Echion met with his fate, or where they exposed Œdipus after his birth, no one knows, as we do know the cross-roads on the way to Phocis where Œdipus slew his father.”

Book 9 · Chapter 5

• with Cadmus (Echion became Cadmus's son-in-law.) “Echion was chosen by Cadmus as his son-in-law for his conspicuous valour”
• child: Pentheus (Parent-to-child direction.) “Pentheus the son of Echion had great power”

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