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Electryon

Ἠλεκτρύων

(Ἠλεκτρύων), a son of Perseus and Andromeda, was king of Mycenae or Mideia in Argolis. (Paus. 2.25.8.) He was married to Anaxo, the daughter of Alcaeus, by whom he had several children. (Apollod. 2.4.5, &c.) The tradition about him is given under AMPHITRYON. Another Electryon is mentioned by Diodorus (4.67).

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.