Echion (division)

Echion ( Greek  Ἐχίων , genitive Ἐχίονος 'snake man' from ἔχις echis 'snake') is one of the five surviving divisions ( Spartoi , 'sown men') in Greek mythology that emerged from the dragon teeth sown by Kadmos .

Echion was chosen as son-in-law by Kadmos for his great bravery. With the daughter of Kadmos, Agaue , he is the father of Pentheus . At Ovid he built Thebes with Kadmos , where he built a temple for Cybele .

literature

• Konrad Seeliger : Echion 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1213 ( digitized version ).
• René S. Bloch: Echion 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 , Sp. 872.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 4, 1; Hyginus , Fabulae 178; Ovid, Metamorphoses 3, 126.
2. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 4, 2; Ovid, Metamorphosen 3, 513; Pausanias 9, 5, 2.
3. ↑ Ovid, Metamorphosen 3, 330; 10, 686.