Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.... , the name Echion, "[son] of the viper", echis) referred to five different beings.
In Greek mythology, the Gigantes or, commonly, Giants, were a race of giants, children of Gaia or Gaea, who were fertilized by the blood of Uranus_, after being castration by his son Cronus.... .
One of the surviving Spartoi, the "sown men" that sprang up from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus
Cadmus
Cadmus or Kadmos , in Greek mythology mythology, was a Phoenician prince, the son of Agenor and the brother of Phoenix , Cilix and Europa .... ; "it was Echion who, for his great valor, was preferred by Cadmus to be his son-in-law:" Echion was father of Pentheus
Pentheus
In Greek mythology, Pentheus was a king of Thebes, Greece, son of the strongest of the Spartes, Echion, and of Agave , daughter of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, and the goddess Harmonia.... (see Spartes
Spartes
In Greek mythology, Sparto? are a mythical people who were held to be Ares' children.... ).
In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece.... , son of Hermes
Hermes
Hermes is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology. An Twelve Olympians, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of thieves and road travelers, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures, of invention, of general commerce, and of the cunni... , at the Calydonian Boar Hunt
Calydonian Boar
The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful wom... , according to Hyginus and Ovid
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman Empire poet known as Ovid to the English language-speaking world, who wrote about love, seduction, and Roman mythology transformation.... .
In Homer's Odyssey, Penel?pe is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps Suitors of Penelope at bay in his long absence and so is eventually rejoined with him.... .
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta.... . Son of Portheus, he was one of the men hidden in the Trojan horse
Trojan Horse
The "Trojan Horse" refers to the stratagem that allowed the Greeks to finally enter the city of Troy during the Trojan War. In the best-known version of this Bronze Age story, after a fruitless 10-year siege of Troy, the Greeks built a huge figure of a horse, in which a select force of men hid.... , and he was killed whilst jumping from it.
