Eioneus

In Greek mythology, Eioneus (Ἠιονεύς) is a name attributed to the following individuals:

• Eioneus, father of Dia,^[1][2] see Deioneus.
• Eioneus, the presumed mythological eponym of the Thracian city of Eion. This character was the father of Rhesus, according to Homer.^[3] One source^[4] identifies him with Strymon, who was more commonly known as father of Rhesus.
• Eioneus, a Greek warrior in the Trojan War who was killed by Hector.^[5]
• Eioneus, son of Magnes and one of the suitors of Hippodamia. He, like all of the other suitors before Pelops, was killed by Oenomaus.^[6]
• Eioneus, son of Proteus, father of the Phrygian king Dymas.^[7]

References

1. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 69. 3
2. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3. 62
3. Homer, Iliad, 10. 435
4. Conon, Narrations, 4
5. Homer, Iliad, 7. 11
6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6. 21. 11
7. Scholia on Euripides, Hecuba, 3