Lord of Thebe beneath wooded Placus and ruler over the men of Cilicia — father of Andromache, whom bronze-harnessed Hector wed; distinct from Eetion father of Cypselus the Corinthian tyrant.1
Eetion dwelt beneath wooded Placus in Thebe under Placus and was lord over the men of Cilicia. His daughter Andromache, great-hearted Eetion's child, became the wife of Hector; when she met her husband at the Scaean gate she reminded him that swift-footed Achilles had already slain her father and her seven brothers amid their shambling cattle and white-fleeced sheep.2
Before the war at Troy, the Achaeans went forth to Thebe, the sacred city of Eetion, and laid it waste. Achilles brought Andromache among the spoil; afterward he set her mother free for ransom past counting, but Artemis the archer slew her in her father's halls.3
When Hector fell, Andromache recalled their shared fate: he in Troy in the house of Priam, and she in Thebe beneath wooded Placus in the house of Eetion, who reared her when she was a babe — hapless father of a cruel-fated child.4
Apollodorus names Andromache daughter of Eetion among the Trojan royal marriages — Hector's wife and Alexander's consort Oenone among the daughters of river and king.5
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