Editing Echemus (section)

== Family ==
Echemus was the son of [[Aeropus (mythology)|Aeropus]], son of King [[Cepheus (king of Tegea)|Cepheus]].<ref name=":0">[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.5.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=8:chapter=5&highlight=Timandra 8.5.1]</ref> He was married to [[Timandra (mythology)|Timandra]], daughter of [[Leda (mythology)|Leda]] and [[Tyndareus]] of [[Sparta]].<ref name="Cat">[[Hesiod]], [[Catalogue of Women|''Ehoiai'']] fr. 23a.</ref> Timandra bore him a son, [[Laodocus|Ladocus]],<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.44.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=8:chapter=44&highlight=Ladocus 8.44.1]</ref> before deserting Echemus for [[Phyleus]], the king of [[Dulichium]]. This lineage made Echemus a part of the Greek mythical family Atreidai, which stood in direct opposition to the Heracleidae, and emphasised the "pre-dorian" ancestry of the Tegeans and Arcadians.<ref>Pretzler, M.(1999) 94.</ref>

An alternative genealogy makes Echemus a son of Aeropus, son of the war god [[Ares]] rather than Cepheus, this was a genealogy presented to Pausanias in Tegea, which he includes in his description of the temple of Ares Aphenius between the cities of Tegea and [[Pallantium (Arcadia)|Pallantium]].<ref>Pausanias 8.44.7.</ref>