Echion
Ἐχίων
(Ἐχίων).
1. One of the five surviving Spartae that had grown up from the dragon's teeth, which Cadmus had sown. (Apollod. 3.4.1; Hyg. Fab. 178; Ov. Met. 3.126.) He was married to Agave, by whom he became the father of Pentheus. (Apollod. 3.5.2.) He is said to have dedicated a temple of Cybele in Boeotia, and to have assisted Cadmus in the building of Thebes. (Ov. Met. 10.68(6.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.