Echīon
(
Ἐχίων).
1.
One of the heroes who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus. (See
Sparti.) He was the husband of Agavé and
father of Pentheus, who is hence called Echionides.
2.
Son of Hermes and Antianira; took part in the Calydonian hunt and in the expedition of the
Argonauts.
3.
A distinguished Greek painter who flourished about B.C. 352. One of his pictures,
representing Semiramis passing from the state of a handmaid to that of a queen, is supposed
by many to be the original of the picture known as the Aldobrandini Marriage discovered at
Rome in 1606 and now in the Vatican. See Woltmann and Woermann,
Hist. of
Painting, i. p. 115
(1880).