Echephron
Echephron (/ɪˈkɛfrən, -ˌrɒn/; Ancient Greek: Ἐχέφρων, gen.: Ἐχέφρωνος) is the name of three characters in Greek mythology.
- Echephron, a prince of Pylos and son of King Nestor and Eurydice[1] (or Anaxibia[2]). He was the brother of Thrasymedes, Pisidice, Polycaste, Perseus, Stratichus, Aretus, Pisistratus and Antilochus.
- Echephron, a Trojan prince as one of the sons of Priam, king of Troy.[3]
- Echephron, son of Heracles and Psophis, daughter of Eryx, a Sicilian despot. He changed the name of the city Phegia (the old Erymanthus) to Psophis.[4]
Notes
References
- Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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Characters in the Odyssey
- Penelope (wife)
- Telemachus (son)
- Ctimene (sister)
- Anticlea (mother)
- Laertes (father of Odysseus) (father)
- Autolycus (grandfather)
- Eurycleia (chief servant)
- Mentor (advisor)
- Phemius (musician)
- Eumaeus (swineherd)
- Philoetius (cowherd)
- Melanthius (goatherd)
- Melantho (maid)
- Medon (herald)
- Argos (pet dog)
- Alcinous of Phaeacia
- Antiphates, king of the Laestrygones
- Aretus
- Arete of Phaeacia
- Deucalion of Crete
- Echetus
- Nestor of Pylos
- Echephron
- Perseus
- Stratichus
- Peisistratus
- Menelaus of Sparta
- Helen
- Princess Nausicaa of Phaeacia
- Laodamas
- Agamemnon of Mycenae
- Idomeneus
- Mentes
- Thrasymedes
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