Eetion (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Eëtion (Ancient Greek: Ἠετίων Ēetíōn [ɛː.e.tí.ɔːn]) may refer to the following personages:
- Eëtion, another name of Iasion in some myths.[1][2]
- Eëtion, king of the Cilician Thebe and father of Andromache and Podes. He was slain by when the latter sacked the town.[3]
- Eëtion, ruler over the island of Imbros mentioned in the Iliad. Achilles sold the Trojan prince Lycaon, son of King Priam of Troy, whom he had taken prisoner, to Euneus, king of Lemnos, but Eetion paid a great ransom for him and sent him to Arisbe, a city in the Troad to be returned to his father. However, twelve days afterward Lycaon fell once more into the hands of his killer Achilles.[4]
- Eëtion, the "bold" Greek soldier who participated in the Trojan War. He was shot dead by Paris during the siege of Troy.[5] "Yet again did Paris shoot at bold Eetion. Through his jaw leapt the sudden-flashing brass: he groaned, and with his blood were mingled tears."[6]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 121 Most, pp. 206, 207 [= fr. 177 Merkelbach-West = P. Oxy. 1359 fr. 2 (Grenfell and Hunt, p. 53)].
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.916 with Hellanicus as the authority; Scholia on Euripides, Phoenissae 1129; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 219.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 6.410 ff.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 21.43.
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 6.639.
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 6.639–641.
References
[edit]- Grenfell, Bernard P., and Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part XI, London, Egypt Exploration Fund, 1915. Internet Archive.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Merkelbach, R., and M. L. West, Fragmenta Hesiodea, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1967. ISBN 978-0-19-814171-6.
- Hesiod, Catalogue of Women, in Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments, edited and translated by Glenn W. Most, Loeb Classical Library No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2007, 2018. ISBN 978-0-674-99721-9. Online version at Harvard University Press.
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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