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  Andromache
She was married to Hector, son of Priam, and with him had two sons, Astyanax (Scamandrius) and Laodamas.
Andromache's father was Eetion, king of Thebae in Cilicia.
Achilles slew her father and her seven brothers when he captured Thebae, but Andromache was already married to Hector and residing in Troy.
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  Andromache, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
In this city of Thebe was born Andromache, and her father was King Eetion 1; but when Achilles sacked the city and killed the king, Andromache, having married Hector 1, was already at Troy.
Eetion 1 was king of Thebe, a city to the east of Mount Ida in Asia Minor.
One son of Eetion 1, called Podes, was killed by Menelaus during the Trojan War.
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 Thebe, Cilicia at AllExperts
Thebe was the sacred city of Eetion in Greek mythology.
Thebe was also the birthplace of Andromache, daughter of Eetion and the wife of Hector.
According to one account, the city of Thebe was founded by the hero Heracles after his sack of Troy during the reign of King Laomedon; Heracles named the city after his birthplace, Thebes in Boeotia.
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 BBC - Schools - Ancient Greece Resources
Labda, who had no idea why they had come, assumed that they were asking because they were friendly with his father and she handed the baby over to one of them.
They came and looked, but when they did not find him, they decided to go home and tell those who had sent them that they had done what they were told to do.
After this, Eetion's son grew up and because he had escaped from that danger, he was called "Kypselos", after the Greek word for a chest.
www.bbc.co.uk /schools/ancientgreece/resource/p8.shtml   (435 words)

  
 AETION, or EETION - Online Information article about AETION, or EETION
AETION, or EETION - Online Information article about AETION, or EETION
Herodotus or Eetion, 5), was a picture representing the See also:
He is said to have exhibited it at the Olympic See also:
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 Dictionary: Draco to Ereuthus, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Eerie saved her father Tectaphus 2, who was in prison, by letting him suckle the milk from her own breast [for a similar case see also Xanthippe 2] [Nonn.26.121ff.].
Eetion 1 was slain by Achilles, when the latter sacked the town [Hom.Il.6.410ff., 17.575; Hyg.Fab.123; QS.4.152].
Achilles sold Lycaon 1, whom he had taken prisoner, to Euneus 1, king of Lemnos, but Eetion 3 of Imbros (the island in northern Aegean Sea south of Samothrace) paid a great ransom for him and sent him to Arisbe, a city in the Troad.
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 cypselus
Eetion, they understood it at once, recognizing its similarity with the oracle of
Labda, knowing nothing of the purpose of their coming and thinking that they wished to see the baby out of affection for its father, brought it and placed it into the hands of one of them.
Eetion's son, however, grew up, and because of his escape from that danger, he was called
www.bsu.edu /classes/magrath/marrkid/cypselus.html   (579 words)

  
 Chapter Twelve...The Feast
Eetion wasn't foolish enough to think his first wife was out of tricks or cornered yet.
Eetion had raised the boy among his own guard
Eetion knew he should have killed the witch years ago.
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 The Iliad by Homer: Chapter 17 (continued) - The Literature Page
Therefore she put strength into his knees and shoulders, and made him as bold as a fly, which, though driven off will yet come again and bite if it can, so dearly does it love man's blood--even so bold as this did she make him as he stood over Patroclus and threw his spear.
Now there was among the Trojans a man named Podes, son of Eetion, who was both rich and valiant.
Hector held him in the highest honour for he was his comrade and boon companion; the spear of Menelaus struck this man in the girdle just as he had turned in flight, and went right through him.
www.literaturepage.com /read.php?titleid=theiliad&abspage=263&reset=yes   (361 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 4 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
EETION ('HeTfo»/), a king of the Placian Thebe in Cilicia, and father of Andromache and Podes.
415, andc.), who proposed the mighty iron ball, which Ee'tion had once thrown, and which had.
826, andc.) Among the booty which Achilles made in the town of Ee'tion, we find especial mention of the horse Pedasus and the phorminx with a silver neck, on which Achilles played in his tent.
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 [ MYTHOLOGiC. ]
The heroine Andromache was the daughter of King Eetion of Thebe.
She became the wife of the great Trojan hero Hector, and bore him a son named Astyanax.
Andromache survived the horrors of the Trojan war, and as the concubine of Neoptolemus, she bore the Greek hero three sons - Molossus, Pielus, and Pergamus.
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But suddenly, as it appeared that Iasion, Dionysus, Attis, and Eetion were all terms used to describe the third Kabeiri "brother" (Hephaistos and his wife, Cabeiro, had three sons), my attitude has changed.
And since Eetion is said to be the same as Iasion, while Iasion was the brother of Dardanus (co-founder of Trojans) and father of the Corybantes (i.e.
Thus the Edoni and the Eetion Kabalists appear to have been depicted by Centaurs, born of Apollo and Stilbe, she being the daughter of Peneus (father of Daphne) and therefore having Calydonian elements.
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 Andromache - LoveToKnow 1911
ANDROMACHE, in Greek legend, the daughter of Eetion, prince of Thebe in Mysia, and wife of Hector.
Her father and seven brothers fell by the hands of Achilles when their town was taken by him; her mother, ransomed at a high price, was slain by Artemis (Iliad, vi.
This page was last modified 11:21, 25 Aug 2006.
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 Hector & Andromache - Romance Love Tips
She was married to Hector, son of Priam, and with him had two sons, Astyanax (Scamandrius) and Laodamas.
Andromache's father was Eetion, king of Thebae in Cilicia.
Achilles slew her father and her seven brothers when he captured Thebae, but Andromache was already married to Hector and residing in Troy.
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 Hector
Hector was the brother of Paris, Helenus and Cassandra.
He married Andromache, the daughter of Eëtion (Eetion), king of Thebes.
Hector's name means 'prop' or 'stay', and only the near-immortal Achilles could press his defenses hard enough to threaten the city, and without Achilles Troy scored victory after victory against the Greeks.
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 Eetion (1) * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
Eetion (1) * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
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