person
Echion
also: one of the Sparti
One of the five Sown Men (Sparti) who survived the mutual slaughter and helped Cadmus build Thebes; husband of Agave and father of Pentheus.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §3.43 Echion
One of the five surviving Sown Men who helped build Thebes; husband of Agave and father of Pentheus.
- Metamorphoses §3.56 the son of Echion
Echion, one of the Sown Men, father of Pentheus.
- Metamorphoses §10.317 Echion
Echion (of the Theban Sown Men) who had built by vow the temple of the Mother of the gods.