Deion

A son of Aeolus and Enarete, was king in Phocis and husband of Diomede, by whom he became the father of Asteropeia, Aenetus, Actor, Phylacus, and Cephalus.1 After the death of his brother, Salmoneus, he took his daughter Tyro into his house, and gave her in marriage to Cretheus.

His name occurs also in the form Deioneus.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 7.3, 9.4.
  2. Eustathius on Homer, p. 1685.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.