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Euripides, Ion, 1163-1165
κατ' εἰσόδους δὲ Κέκροπα θυγατέρων πέλας barbarian ships bearing down on the fleet of Hellas; and monsters half-man, half-beast; the capture of the Thracian steeds; the hunting of savage stags and lions fierce; while at the entry Cecrops close to his daughters was wreathing his coils, an offering of some Athenian
σπείραισιν εἱλίσσοντ', ̓Αθηναίων τινὸς barbarian ships bearing down on the fleet of Hellas; and monsters half-man, half-beast; the capture of the Thracian steeds; the hunting of savage stags and lions fierce; while at the entry Cecrops close to his daughters was wreathing his coils, an offering of some Athenian
ἀνάθημα: χρυσέους τ' ἐν μέσῳ συσσιτίῳ votary; and in the midst of the banquet-hall he set goblets of gold, while a herald hasted and invited to the feast all citizens who would come. Then, when the tent was full, they decked themselves with garlands and took their fill

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1. Homer, Odyssey, 8.392 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
2. Euripides, Ion, 1000-1019, 102-105, 1058-1060, 1069-1073, 1132, 1158-1162, 1164-1166, 1220, 1571-1575, 171-175, 184-187, 20-23, 237-239, 24, 240, 267-282, 30, 589-592, 645, 67-71, 719, 72, 720-724, 73-75, 843, 94-97, 987-999, 10 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 10. there did Phoebus force his love on Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, beneath the rock of Pallas, northward of Athens’ steep realm, called Macrae by the kings of Attica. And she without her father’s knowledge—for such was the god’s good pleasure,—
3. Euripides, Medea, 825 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 825. children of the blessed gods, fed on wisdom’s glorious food in a holy land ne’er pillaged by its foes, ye who move with sprightly step through a climate ever bright
4. Herodotus, Histories, 6.58, 7.189 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 6.58. The kings are granted these rights from the Spartan commonwealth while they live; when they die, their rights are as follows: Horsemen proclaim their death in all parts of Laconia, and in the city women go about beating on cauldrons. When this happens, two free persons from each house, a man and a woman, are required to wear mourning, or incur heavy penalties if they fail to do so. ,The Lacedaemonians have the same custom at the deaths of their kings as the foreigners in Asia; most foreigners use the same custom at their kings' deaths. When a king of the Lacedaemonians dies, a fixed number of their subject neighbors must come to the funeral from all Lacedaemon, besides the Spartans. ,When these and the helots and the Spartans themselves have assembled in one place to the number of many thousands, together with the women, they zealously beat their foreheads and make long and loud lamentation, calling that king that is most recently dead the best of all their kings. Whenever a king dies in war, they make an image of him and carry it out on a well-spread bier. For ten days after the burial there are no assemblies or elections, and they mourn during these days. 7.189. The story is told that because of an oracle the Athenians invoked Boreas, the north wind, to help them, since another oracle told them to summon their son-in-law as an ally. According to the Hellenic story, Boreas had an Attic wife, Orithyia, the daughter of Erechtheus, ancient king of Athens. ,Because of this connection, so the tale goes, the Athenians considered Boreas to be their son-in-law. They were stationed off Chalcis in Euboea, and when they saw the storm rising, they then, if they had not already, sacrificed to and called upon Boreas and Orithyia to help them by destroying the barbarian fleet, just as before at Athos. ,I cannot say whether this was the cause of Boreas falling upon the barbarians as they lay at anchor, but the Athenians say that he had come to their aid before and that he was the agent this time. When they went home, they founded a sacred precinct of Boreas beside the Ilissus river.
5. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 2.15.1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 2.15.1. From very early times this had been more the case with the Athenians than with others. Under Cecrops and the first kings, down to the reign of Theseus, Attica had always consisted of a number of independent townships, each with its own town-hall and magistrates. Except in times of danger the king at Athens was not consulted; in ordinary seasons they carried on their government and settled their affairs without his interference; sometimes even they waged war against him, as in the case of the Eleusinians with Eumolpus against Erechtheus.
6. Demosthenes, Orations, 60.27 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
7. Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3.14.1, 3.15.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 3.14.1. Κέκροψ αὐτόχθων, συμφυὲς ἔχων σῶμα ἀνδρὸς καὶ δράκοντος, τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἐβασίλευσε πρῶτος, καὶ τὴν γῆν πρότερον λεγομένην Ἀκτὴν ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ Κεκροπίαν ὠνόμασεν. ἐπὶ τούτου, φασίν, ἔδοξε τοῖς θεοῖς πόλεις καταλαβέσθαι, ἐν αἷς ἔμελλον ἔχειν τιμὰς ἰδίας ἕκαστος. ἧκεν οὖν πρῶτος Ποσειδῶν ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀττικήν, καὶ πλήξας τῇ τριαίνῃ κατὰ μέσην τὴν ἀκρόπολιν ἀπέφηνε θάλασσαν, ἣν νῦν Ἐρεχθηίδα καλοῦσι. μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον ἧκεν Ἀθηνᾶ, καὶ ποιησαμένη τῆς καταλήψεως Κέκροπα μάρτυρα ἐφύτευσεν ἐλαίαν, ἣ νῦν ἐν τῷ Πανδροσείῳ 1 -- δείκνυται. γενομένης δὲ ἔριδος ἀμφοῖν περὶ τῆς χώρας, διαλύσας Ζεὺς κριτὰς ἔδωκεν, 1 -- οὐχ ὡς εἶπόν τινες, Κέκροπα καὶ Κραναόν, 2 -- οὐδὲ Ἐρυσίχθονα, θεοὺς δὲ τοὺς δώδεκα. καὶ τούτων δικαζόντων ἡ χώρα τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ἐκρίθη, Κέκροπος μαρτυρήσαντος ὅτι πρώτη 3 -- τὴν ἐλαίαν ἐφύτευσεν. Ἀθηνᾶ μὲν οὖν ἀφʼ ἑαυτῆς τὴν πόλιν ἐκάλεσεν Ἀθήνας, Ποσειδῶν δὲ θυμῷ ὀργισθεὶς τὸ Θριάσιον πεδίον ἐπέκλυσε καὶ τὴν Ἀττικὴν ὕφαλον ἐποίησε. 3.15.4. Χιόνη δὲ Ποσειδῶνι 4 -- μίγνυται. ἡ δὲ κρύφα τοῦ πατρὸς Εὔμολπον τεκοῦσα, ἵνα μὴ γένηται καταφανής, εἰς τὸν βυθὸν ῥίπτει τὸ παιδίον. Ποσειδῶν δὲ ἀνελόμενος εἰς Αἰθιοπίαν κομίζει καὶ δίδωσι Βενθεσικύμῃ τρέφειν, αὐτοῦ θυγατρὶ καὶ Ἀμφιτρίτης. ὡς δὲ ἐτελειώθη, 1 -- ὁ Βενθεσικύμης ἀνὴρ τὴν ἑτέραν αὐτῷ τῶν θυγατέρων δίδωσιν. ὁ δὲ καὶ τὴν ἀδελφὴν τῆς γαμηθείσης ἐπεχείρησε βιάζεσθαι, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο φυγαδευθεὶς μετὰ Ἰσμάρου τοῦ παιδὸς πρὸς Τεγύριον ἧκε, Θρᾳκῶν βασιλέα, ὃς αὐτοῦ τῷ παιδὶ τὴν θυγατέρα συνῴκισεν. 2 -- ἐπιβουλεύων δὲ ὕστερον Τεγυρίῳ καταφανὴς γίνεται, καὶ πρὸς Ἐλευσινίους φεύγει καὶ φιλίαν ποιεῖται πρὸς αὐτούς. αὖθις δὲ Ἰσμάρου τελευτήσαντος μεταπεμφθεὶς ὑπὸ Τεγυρίου παραγίνεται, καὶ τὴν πρὸ τοῦ μάχην διαλυσάμενος τὴν βασιλείαν παρέλαβε. καὶ πολέμου ἐνστάντος πρὸς Ἀθηναίους τοῖς Ἐλευσινίοις, 3 -- ἐπικληθεὶς ὑπὸ Ἐλευσινίων μετὰ πολλῆς συνεμάχει Θρᾳκῶν δυνάμεως. Ἐρεχθεῖ δὲ ὑπὲρ 1 -- Ἀθηναίων νίκης χρωμένῳ ἔχρησεν ὁ θεὸς κατορθώσειν τὸν πόλεμον, ἐὰν μίαν τῶν θυγατέρων σφάξῃ. καὶ σφάξαντος αὐτοῦ τὴν νεωτάτην καὶ αἱ λοιπαὶ ἑαυτὰς κατέσφαξαν· ἐπεποίηντο γάρ, ὡς ἔφασάν τινες, συνωμοσίαν ἀλλήλαις συναπολέσθαι. γενομένης δὲ μετὰ τὴν 2 -- σφαγὴν τῆς μάχης Ἐρεχθεὺς μὲν ἀνεῖλεν Εὔμολπον
8. Plutarch, Solon, 21 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Plutarch, Theseus, 19.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
10. Aelius Aristides, Orations, 1.87 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
11. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.5.2, 1.27.4, 1.28.4, 1.38.3, 9.19.1, 9.30.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.5.2. The eponymoi That is, “those after whom others are named.” —this is the name given to them—are Hippothoon son of Poseidon and Alope daughter of Cercyon, Antiochus, one of the children of Heracles borne to him by Meda daughter of Phylas, thirdly, Ajax son of Telamon, and to the Athenians belongs Leos, who is said to have given up his daughters, at the command of the oracle, for the safety of the commonwealth. Among the eponymoi is Erechtheus, who conquered the Eleusinians in battle, and killed their general, Immaradus the son of Eumolpus. There is Aegeus also and Oeneus the bastard son of Pandion, and Acamas, one of the children of Theseus. 1.27.4. By the temple of Athena is .... an old woman about a cubit high, the inscription calling her a handmaid of Lysimache, and large bronze figures of men facing each other for a fight, one of whom they call Erechtheus, the other Eumolpus; and yet those Athenians who are acquainted with antiquity must surely know that this victim of Erechtheus was Immaradus, the son of Eumolpus. 1.28.4. On descending, not to the lower city, but to just beneath the Gateway, you see a fountain and near it a sanctuary of Apollo in a cave. It is here that Apollo is believed to have met Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus.... when the Persians had landed in Attica Philippides was sent to carry the tidings to Lacedaemon . On his return he said that the Lacedacmonians had postponed their departure, because it was their custom not to go out to fight before the moon was full. Philippides went on to say that near Mount Parthenius he had been met by Pan, who told him that he was friendly to the Athenians and would come to Marathon to fight for them. This deity, then, has been honored for this announcement. 1.38.3. When the Eleusinians fought with the Athenians, Erechtheus, king of the Athenians, was killed, as was also Immaradus, son of Eumolpus. These were the terms on which they concluded the war: the Eleusinians were to have in dependent control of the mysteries, but in all things else were to be subject to the Athenians. The ministers of the Two Goddesses were Eumolpus and the daughters of Celeus, whom Pamphos and Homer agree in naming Diogenia, Pammerope, and the third Saesara. Eumolpus was survived by Ceryx, the younger of his sons whom the Ceryces themselves say was a son of Aglaurus, daughter of Cecrops, and of Hermes, not of Eumolpus. 9.19.1. On this highway is a place called Teumessus, where it is said that Europa was hidden by Zeus. There is also another legend, which tells of a fox called the Teumessian fox, how owing to the wrath of Dionysus the beast was reared to destroy the Thebans, and how, when about to be caught by the hound given by Artemis to Procris the daughter of Erechtheus, the fox was turned into a stone, as was likewise this hound. In Teumessus there is also a sanctuary of Telchinian Athena, which contains no image. As to her surname, we may hazard the conjecture that a division of the Telchinians who once dwelt in Cyprus came to Boeotia and established a sanctuary of Telchinian Athena. 9.30.1. The first images of the Muses are of them all, from the hand of Cephisodotus, while a little farther on are three, also from the hand of Cephisodotus, and three more by Strongylion, an excellent artist of oxen and horses. The remaining three were made by Olympiosthenes. There is also on Helicon a bronze Apollo fighting with Hermes for the lyre. There is also a Dionysus by Lysippus; the standing image, however, of Dionysus, that Sulla dedicated, is the most noteworthy of the works of Myron after the Erectheus at Athens . What he dedicated was not his own; he took it away from the Minyae of Orchomenus . This is an illustration of the Greek proverb, “to worship the gods with other people's incense.”

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
afterlife	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
akropolis, statue group by myron	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
alkon, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
apollo	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 249, 878
athena	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 249, 878
athens, and athenian identity	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 241
athens, imperialism (athenian)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
athens, pure	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 241
athens	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 249
audience involvement	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 241
autochthony, and athenians	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
character	Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 213, 214
chthonia, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
cremation	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
delphi	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
deus ex machina	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
epic, evidence from	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
eponymous hero, fights eleusinians	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
eponymous hero, king	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
eponymous hero, sacrifices daughters	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
eponymous hero	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
erechtheis, tribe	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
erechtheus, as father	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
erechtheus, death	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
erichthonios, and erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
erichthonios, birth	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
eumolpos	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
evolution	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
funeral	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
fustel de coulanges, n. d.	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
gibert, j. xxi	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 249
head	Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 213
hermes	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
identity, in eur. ion, athens, athens	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 241
immarados	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
ion	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 249
kekrops (ii), child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
komôs	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
kreousa, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
merope, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
metion, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
mills, s. xxiv	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
nature	Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 213, 214
opferrinne	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
oreithyia, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
orneus, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
pandora, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
parthenon	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 241
poseidon	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
prokris, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
protogeneia, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
purity, in athens, athenian	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 241
sculptor/sculpture	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
self-reference'	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 241
self-reference	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 242
sikyon, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
sparta, and athens, institutions	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
symposion	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
textiles	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
thespios, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 69
trade	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
wedding	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 28
woman	Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 213