Electryon
In
Argolis.[2]
Electryon | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Spouse | Anaxo or Eurydice |
| Children | Alcmena Stratobates Gorgophonus Phylonomus Celaeneus Amphimachus Lysinomus Chirimachus Anactor Archelaus Licymnius |
| Parents | |
Family
Electryon was the son of
Gorgophone and Autochthe. He is most commonly married to Anaxo, daughter of his brother Alcaeus and sister of Amphitryon,[3] but was instead married to Eurydice, daughter of Pelops, in some versions of the myth. His wife bore him a daughter Alcmena and many sons: Stratobates, Gorgophonus, Phylonomus, Celaeneus, Amphimachus, Lysinomus, Chirimachus, Anactor, and Archelaus. Electryon had an illegitimate son Licymnius by Midea, a Phrygian woman.[4]
Mythology
The six sons of
Sthenelus
seized the throne of Mycenae, charged Amphitryon with murder, and sent him into exile.
Notes
- ISBN 978-0-19-999739-8.
- ^ Pausanias, 2.25.9
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.5
- , retrieved 2021-10-14
References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Ele'ctryon" , Amphi'tryon
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