Euteiches
Euteiches ( ancient Greek Εὐτείχης ) is a person of Greek mythology .
He is the son of the hippocoon from Amyklai . In the library of Apollodorus he, together with his father and his brothers Dorykleus , Skaios , Enarophoros , Bukolus , Lykaithos , Tebros , Hippothoos , Eurytos , Hippokorystes , Alcinous and Alkon, drove the rulers of Sparta , Ikarios and Tyndareos , out of the city. Hippocoon and all his sons are killed by Heracles , whereupon Tyndareus takes control again.
In the choral lyricist Alkman , he and his brothers are slain by the Dioscuri , the sons of Heracles.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Euteiches . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1438 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Tümpel : Euteiches. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 1492 ( digitized version ).
