Echo (mythology) context of the Great Deluge. Nonnus states that the waters rose so far that even high on the hills Echo was forced to swim. Having escaped the advances of Pan, she feared now the lust of Poseidon. Whereas Nonnus is adamant that Pan never wins Echo, in Apuleius' "The Golden Ass" Pan is described with Echo in his arms, teaching the nymph to repeat all manner of songs. Similarly in the "Suda" Echo is described as bearing Pan a child, "Iynx". Other fragments mention a second daughter, "Iambe". "The Lay of Narcissus", one of many titles by which the work
Sithon (mythology) Sithon (mythology) In Greek mythology, Sithon ( or ; ) was a king of the Odomanti or Hadomanti in Thrace, and presumably the eponym of the peninsula Sithonia and the tribe Sithones. Sithon was the son of either Poseidon and Ossa or of Ares and Anchiroe. He was married to the nymph Mendeis, though Anchiroe is otherwise also given as his wife rather than mother, and had at least two daughters: Rhoeteia, eponym of the promontory of Rhoetium in the Troad, and Pallene. One source gives him as the father of the Thracian princess Phyllis, who loved Demophon of Athens.