Echion (Argonaut)

Echion ( Greek  Ἐχίων , more precisely Ἐχίονος “son of the viper” from ἔχις echis “viper”) is the son of Hermes and Antianeira in Greek mythology . He was one of the Argonauts and took part in the hunt for the Calydonian boar .

swell

• Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 14
• Ovid , Metamorphoses 8, 311
• Pindar , Pythias 4, 179
• Apollonios of Rhodes , Argonautika 1, 52

literature

• Konrad Seeliger : Echion 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1213 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Echion in the Greek Myth Index (English)