Eetion
Also known as: great Eetion · Family: Cilicians · Role: king · First appears: BOOK VI
🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Eetion)
Life events
- Achilles kills Eetion while sacking Thebe, then burns him and raises a barrow over his ashes.(BOOK VI · 📍 Thebe)
- With: Achilles
- “Achilles slew my father when he sacked Thebe the goodly city of the Cilicians. He slew him, but did not for very shame despoil him”
BOOK VI
- child: Andromache (Eetion is Andromache's father.) “his wife came running towards him, Andromache, daughter of great Eetion”
- with Achilles (Achilles killed Eetion.) “Achilles slew my father when he sacked Thebe the goodly city of the Cilicians.”
BOOK VIII
- child: Andromache “Andromache daughter of great Eetion”
BOOK XVII
- child: Podes son of Eetion “Podes, son of Eetion, who was both rich and valiant.”
BOOK XXI
- protégé: Lycaon son of Priam “But a guest-friend, Eetion of Imbros, freed him with a great sum, and sent him to Arisbe”
- friends with Lycaon son of Priam “But a guest-friend, Eetion of Imbros, freed him with a great sum, and sent him to Arisbe”
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