Eetion
King of Cilician Thebe and father of Andromache.
Eëtion was the king of the Anatolian city of Cilician Thebe. He is best known as the father of Andromache, the wife of the Trojan prince Hector. In the Iliad, Andromache recounts that Achilles killed Eëtion during a Greek raid on Thebe.
Quick Facts
- Title
- King of Cilician Thebe
- Region
- Mysia in Anatolia
- Children
- Andromache and seven sons
- Killed by
- Achilles
- City
- Cilician Thebe
Facts from the source article.
Mythology
In the first book of the Iliad, Eëtion is described as king of Cilician Thebe in Mysia. In the sixth book, Andromache tearfully tells Hector of a Greek attack on Thebe in which Achilles killed Eëtion and his seven sons. Achilles did not plunder Eëtion's armour, instead placing him on the funeral pyre fully attired. Eëtion's wife, never named by Andromache, was captured in the same raid and later died by Artemis's hand. A certain Astynome, also called Chryseis, was said to be Eëtion's wife at that time; she was taken by Achilles and became Agamemnon's war prize. The Greeks also stole a horse named Pedasus, a phorminx, and a disc later used in Patroclus's funeral games.
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