Efon (Eton, other Greek Αἴθων “burning”) - in Greek mythology, personification of hunger, Demeter placed him in Erisichton [1] . This is the name of Erisichton himself [2] . According to the description of Ovid, the goddess of hunger lived in the Caucasus [3] . Achaeus of Eretria wrote the play Efon.
The name Efon , according to Perekidos , was carried by an eagle born of Typhon and Echidna, who devoured the liver of Prometheus [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Hesiod. The list of women, fr. 43a M.-U.
- ↑ Lycophron. Alexander 1396; Antonin Liberal. Metamorphoses 17, 5
- ↑ Ovid. Metamorphoses VIII 797-822
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Mythological library II 5, 11; Scholia to Apollonius of Rhodes. Argonautics II 1248 // Bulletin of Ancient History. 1947. No 3. P.291