Didaeon

Didaeon is attested in archaic and Hellenistic genealogical sources as a son of King Eurytus of Oechalia and his wife (the mother is variably recorded as Antiope or Antioche). His appearance in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women fragments (e.g., Fragment 80 as preserved in later compilations) and in Hellenistic mythographic summaries (such as lists attributed to Apollonius Rhodius in later references) places him in the dynastic household of Eurytus. The sources present him as a named scion within that royal house rather than as an independently attested founder, hero, or deity; manuscript and author divergences record the mother’s name in different forms (Antiope/Antioche) but do not supply additional narrative for Didaeon.

No physical description of Didaeon is provided in the surviving sources; he is recorded only by name among his siblings. This lacuna is typical of many figures preserved in catalogues like the Hesiodic Eoiae, where numerous secondary scions are enumerated without accompanying attributes, iconography, or biographical details.

The cited materials do not attribute any powers, heroic deeds, cultic functions, or supernatural behaviors to Didaeon. He is consistently named alongside better-attested siblings (for example Iphitus, Clytius, and Iole) who receive narrative attention elsewhere; by contrast Didaeon appears only as a member of the family roster and has no documented exploits, roles, or posthumous cult in the provided sources.