Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Echion.
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Cadmus and the Spartoi
Virgil Solis, c. 1563
Woodcut for Ovid's Metamorphoses: Cadmus sows the dragon's teeth and the armed Spartoi rise to slaughter one another. Echion is among the five survivors who become Thebes' founding nobles — and, by Agave, father of Pentheus.
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Metamorphoses
Ovid
Book 3: the sown men fight; Echion survives to marry Agave and father Pentheus — the Spartos whose house Dionysus will later tear apart.
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Echion
Spartos of Thebes, husband of Agave and father of Pentheus — distinct from Echion son of Hermes the Argonaut.