Euchenor

In Greek mythology, the name Euchenor may refer to:

• Son of the seer Polyeidos and Eurydameia, brother of Cleitus, from Corinth. The brothers participated in the campaign of the Epigoni and afterwards fought in the Trojan War.^[1] Polyeidos had predicted that Euchenor would either die of an illness in his home city, or fall at Troy; Euchenor chose to go to the war and was eventually killed by Paris.^[2] Alternately, Euchenor was a grandson of Polyeidos; he was said to have dedicated a sacred image to Dionysus, surnamed Dasyllius, at Megara.^[3]

• A son of Aegyptus, who married and was killed by Iphimedousa, daughter of Danaus.^[4]

• Father, by Phlogea, of King Echetus of Epirus.^[5]

References

1. Pherecydes in scholia on Homer, Iliad, 13. 663
2. Homer, Iliad, 13. 663 - 672
3. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 43. 5
4. Bibliotheca 2. 1. 5
5. Scholia on Homer, Odyssey, 18. 35