Echion (giant)

Echion ( Greek  Ἐχίων , more precisely Ἐχίονος “son of the viper” from ἔχις echis “viper”) is one of the giants in Greek mythology who , according to Claudian , were armed with clubs, tree trunks and boulders.

swell

• Claudian: Gigantomachy 104.

literature

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