Eurytion (Phthia)

Eurytion ( Greek Εὐρυτίων ) is a person of Greek mythology .

Eurytion was king of Phthia and an Argonaut . He was the son of Aktor and father of Antigone or grandson of Aktor and son of Iros and Demonassa .

At a young age, Eurytion was a participant in the Argonaut train. Before leaving, he resolved not to cut his hair until he was safely back home. After Peleus had killed his stepbrother Phokos , he fled to Eurytion, who atoned him, married Antigone and left a third of his empire. While hunting the Calydonian boar , Peleus accidentally killed his father-in-law Eurytion with a spear.

Web links

Eurytion (1) in the Greek Myth Index

Individual evidence

↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1.70; 3, 163
↑ Apollonios of Rhodes 1:71 with Scholia; Hyginus , Fabulae 14; among others
↑ Valerius Flaccus . Argonautica, 1,378
↑ Pherecydes in Scholien zu Homer , Iliad 16, 175; Ovid , Metamorphosen 8, 311. - Other sources (Scholien T zu Homer, Iliad 23, 89; Tzetzes , Lykophron 175 etc.) refer to Iros as the father of Eurytion.

[1] Libraries of Apollodorus 1.70; 3, 163

[2] Apollonios of Rhodes 1:71 with Scholia; Hyginus , Fabulae 14; among others

[3] Valerius Flaccus . Argonautica, 1,378

[4] Pherecydes in Scholien zu Homer , Iliad 16, 175; Ovid , Metamorphosen 8, 311. - Other sources (Scholien T zu Homer, Iliad 23, 89; Tzetzes , Lykophron 175 etc.) refer to Iros as the father of Eurytion.