Eteocles (son of Andreus)

Eteocles ( Greek  Ἐτεοκλῆς ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

According to some reports, he is the son of Andreus and Euippe , the daughter of Leukon , and according to others a son of the Boeotian river god Kephisos , which is why he is also known under the name of Kephisiades.

Eteocles was king of Orchomenus , where he is said to have founded the cult of the Charites .

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• Pausanias : Description of Greece 9, 34, 9; 9, 35, 1-3.
• Strabo : Geographika 9, 2, 40.
• Theocritus : Idylls 16, 104.

literature

• Friedrich Adolf Voigt : Eteocles 2) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 1389 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Eteocles in the Greek Myth Index (English)