Echemmon

Echemmon appears in the epic and mythographic record as one of the many named children of Priam, king of Troy, preserved in Homeric-index style lists and later summaries of Trojan genealogies and death-lists. Primary attestations are catalogue-style references within the Trojan War corpus (see indices to the Iliad and later mythographic registers). These sources present him not as a founder or divine figure but as an aristocratic combatant whose death is recorded among the casualties of the siege of Troy. The literary record preserves variant traditions about his death: the most-cited account names Diomedes as the slayer of Echemmon and his brother Chromius (aligned with Iliadic death-list traditions), an alternate account attributes the slaying of Echemmon and a brother named Aretus to Odysseus, and a separate brief notice records an Echemmon described as a friend of Thoas who was killed by Eurypylus of Mysia—possibly a distinct minor figure sharing the same name.

The sources provide no physical description of Echemmon. He is presented only in genealogical and death-list entries (as a son of Priam and as a slain combatant), and surviving summaries and indexes do not preserve details of his armor, stature, or iconography. Later mythographic compilations and reference pages likewise record his name and fate without descriptive material.

Echemmon is represented in the sources strictly as a mortal Trojan prince/warrior; there are no accounts of supernatural powers, magical skills, or extraordinary feats in the provided material. His principal role in the tradition is genealogical and narrative—he participates as one of Priam's sons in the Trojan War and is recorded as slain, an action treated as a narrative fate rather than an ability.