Epirus in Greek mythology is the daughter of Agave and Echion. Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and Heroes the nature of the world and the origins and significance In Greek mythology, Agave (or Agaue, English translation: "illustrious" was the daughter of Cadmus, the king and founder of the city In Greek mythology, the name Echion, " of the viper" echis) referred to five different beings She accompanied Cadmus and Harmonia while they were carrying the body of Pentheus. Cadmus, or Kadmos (Κάδμος in Greek mythology, was a Phoenician prince son of Agenor and the brother of Phoenix, Cilix In Greek mythology, Harmonia is the immortal Goddess of harmony and concord In Greek mythology, Pentheus was a king of Thebes, son of the strongest of the Spartes, Echion, and of Agave, daughter of While in Epirus she died and was buried in a thicket; this thicket was later considered sacred to her and the entire country was renamed after her. Epirus (from Ionic Greek Ήπειρος - Ēpeiros, Doric Greek: Ἅπειρος - Apeiros, in Albanian
This same thicket was also considered the place where the king's son Cichyrus accidentally slew a young girl while hunting. In remorse he flung himself into a ravine and was killed. The king's people, the Chaonians, founded the city of Cichyrus around the ravine. The Chaonians ( Greek: grc Χάονες Chaones) were an ancient Greek tribe that inhabited the region of Epirus in the north-west of modern
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- Parthenius, Love Stories, XXXII: The Story of Anthippe. [1]
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