(), a king of the Placian Thebe in Cilicia, and
father of Andromache and Podes. (Hom. Il. 6.396, 17.575.) He and seven of his sons were slain by Achilles (Il. 6.415, &c.), who proposed the mighty iron ball, which
Eetion had once thrown, and which had come into the possession of Achilles, as one of the
prizes at the funeral games of Patroclus. (Il. 23.826,
&c.) Among the booty which Achilles made in the town of Eetion, we find especial mention
of the horse Pedasus and the phorminx with a silver neck, on which Achilles played in his
tent. (Il. 15.153, 9.186.)
There are two other mythical personages of this name. (Il.
21.40, &c.; Paus. 2.4.4.)