Eetion
InGreek mythology,EëtionorEetion(/iˈiːti.ɒn/;[1]Ancient Greek:ἨετίωνĒetíōn[ɛː.e.tí.ɔːn]) was the king of theCilician Thebe.
Family
[edit]Eetion was the father ofAndromache,wife ofHector,[2]and of seven sons, includingPodes.
Mythology
[edit]In Book 6 of theIliad,Andromache relates thatAchilleskilled Eëtion and his seven sons in a raid on Thebe,[3]but in Book 17, Podes appears and is killed byMenelaus.[4]This inconsistency onHomer's part may be an implication that some traditions gave Eëtion eight sons.
His wife is never named, but Andromache relates that she was captured in the same raid in which Eëtion was killed, and died of sickness in Troy following her release.[5]However, a certainAstynome,also calledChryseis,was said to be the wife of Eetion at that time. She was carried off byAchillesand later became the war prize ofAgamemnon.[6]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- Dictys Cretensis,from The Trojan War.The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete andDares the Phrygiantranslated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginustranslated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Homer,The Iliadwith an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.ISBN978-0674995796.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer,Homeri Operain five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN978-0198145318.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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