Erigone is said to have hanged herself or married Orestes after the latter's first wife, Hermione, died.
One story says that as a child, Penthilus was torn apart and devoured by wolves in the Taygetus mountains, near Sparta.
His father established a festival of mourning, the so-called Penthilia in his honour.
[4] Penthilus was the mythical ancestor of the Penthilides, an ancient dynasty of kings on Lesbos.
[7] His son, Echelas was the father of Gras, the founder of the city Aeolis, between Ionia and Mysia.