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Eurytion

Εὐρυτίων

(Εὐρυτίων).

1. A son of Irus and Demonassa, and a grandson of Actor, is mentioned among the Argonauts. (Hyg. Fab. 14; Apollon. 1.71.) According to others he was a son of Actor, and he is also called Eurytus. (Apollod. 1.8.2; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 175.) When Peleus was expelled from his dominions, he fled to Eurytion and married his daughter Antigone; but in shooting at the Calydonian boar, Peleus inadvertently killed his father-in-law. (Apollod. 3.13. 1. &c.)

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.