Eteocles

A king of Orchomenus, the son of Andreus and Evippe, daughter of Leucon, or of Cephissus. He was said to have been the first that offered sacrifices to the Charites at Orchomenos, in Boeotia.

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References

Sources

  • Müller. Orchomenos und die Minyer, p. 128.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 34.5, 35.1.
  • Scholiast on Pindar's Olympian Odes xiv, 1.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Theocritus, xvi, 104.

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