In the first book of the
Iliad, he is described as the king of the city of
Cilician Thebe, in the region of
Mysia in
Anatolia. In the sixth book of the
Iliad, Andromache tearily tells her husband of an attack which was mounted against Thebe by the Greeks. She relates that
Achilles killed her father, Eetion, also murdering his seven sons. Not feeling it right to plunder Eetion's armour, Achilles put him on the funeral pyre fully attired. His wife is never named, but Andromache relates that she was captured in the same raid in which Eëtion was killed, though she later met her demise at the hands of
Artemis. However, a certain
Astynome, also called
Chryseis, was said to be the wife of Eetion at that time. She was carried off by
Achilles and later became the war prize of
Agamemnon. In the Greeks' raid on the city, they stole goods which included a horse named
Pedasus, a musical instrument called a
phorminx, as well as a disc which later featured in the
funeral games in honour of
Patroclus. The author of
Iliad was likely familiar with sources which related Achilles' raid upon the city. ==Notes==