King of Phthia, son of Actor. He purified the exiled Peleus of bloodshed, gave him his daughter Antigone and a third of his realm, and was then killed by that same Peleus, struck by a misthrown dart at the Calydonian boar hunt.1
When Peleus and Telamon were driven fugitives from Aegina for the killing of their half-brother Phocus, Peleus came to Phthia and the court of Eurytion, son of Actor. Eurytion purified him of the murder and bound him into his house, giving him his daughter Antigone to wife and a third part of the country. By Antigone, Peleus fathered a daughter, Polydora.2
Eurytion is numbered among the heroes Oeneus gathered to hunt the great boar of Calydon — "Eurytion, son of Actor, from Phthia" — set in that roll beside Meleager, Atalanta, and the sons of Aeacus, Peleus and Telamon.3
From Phthia, Eurytion went with his son-in-law Peleus to the hunt. There the gift of kinship turned to ruin: casting a dart at the hog, Peleus involuntarily struck and killed Eurytion. Stained with blood a second time, Peleus fled Phthia again and was purified anew by Acastus at Iolcus.4
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