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Euripides, Ion, 24

δίδωσι σῴζειν: ὅθεν ̓Ερεχθείδαις ἐκεῖ

observant of the custom of her ancestors and of earth-born Erichthonius, whom the daughter of Zeus gave into the charge of the daughters of Agraulus, after setting on either side, to keep him safe, a guard of serpents twain. Hence in that land among the Erechthidae ’tis a

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1. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1011 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1011. παῖδες Κραναοῦ, ταῖσδε μετοίκοις.

2. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 1166 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Euripides, Ion, 1000-1019, 102-105, 1056, 1058-1060, 1069-1073, 1163-1165, 1571-1575, 171-175, 184-187, 20-23, 237-240, 267-282, 30, 585-586, 589-592, 645, 67-71, 719, 72, 720-724, 73-75, 94-97, 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,—

4. Euripides, Medea, 825, 824 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

824. Sons of Erechtheus, heroes happy from of yore

5. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 852 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

852. I am indeed worn out, for I arrived here only yesterday from the court of the Erechtheidae; they too were at war, fighting with Eumolpus.

6. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 387 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. Isocrates, Orations, 12.126 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

8. Plato, Menexenus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

237b. thereafter we shall exhibit the character of their exploits, how nobly and worthily they wrought them. Now as regards nobility of birth, their first claim thereto is this—that the forefathers of these men were not of immigrant stock, nor were these their sons declared by their origin to be strangers in the land sprung from immigrants, but natives sprung from the soil living and dwelling in their own true fatherland; and nurtured also by no stepmother, like other folk, but by that mother-country

9. Sophocles, Ajax, 202 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 1.101 (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

1.101. Θησέα δʼ, ὃς περὶ πάντας Ἐρεχθεΐδας ἐκέκαστο

11. Eratosthenes, Catasterismi, 13 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

12. Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3.14.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

3.14.6. Κραναὸν δὲ ἐκβαλὼν Ἀμφικτύων ἐβασίλευσε· τοῦτον ἔνιοι μὲν Δευκαλίωνος, ἔνιοι δὲ αὐτόχθονα 3 -- λέγουσι. βασιλεύσαντα δὲ αὐτὸν ἔτη 4 -- δώδεκα Ἐριχθόνιος ἐκβάλλει. τοῦτον οἱ μὲν Ἡφαίστου καὶ τῆς Κραναοῦ θυγατρὸς Ἀτθίδος εἶναι λέγουσιν, οἱ δὲ Ἡφαίστου καὶ Ἀθηνᾶς, οὕτως· Ἀθηνᾶ παρεγένετο πρὸς Ἥφαιστον, ὅπλα κατασκευάσαι θέλουσα. ὁ δὲ ἐγκαταλελειμμένος 5 -- ὑπὸ Ἀφροδίτης εἰς ἐπιθυμίαν ὤλισθε τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς, καὶ διώκειν αὐτὴν ἤρξατο· ἡ δὲ ἔφευγεν. ὡς δὲ ἐγγὺς αὐτῆς ἐγένετο πολλῇ ἀνάγκῃ (ἦν γὰρ χωλός), ἐπειρᾶτο συνελθεῖν. ἡ δὲ ὡς σώφρων καὶ παρθένος οὖσα οὐκ ἠνέσχετο· ὁ δὲ ἀπεσπέρμηνεν εἰς τὸ σκέλος τῆς θεᾶς. ἐκείνη δὲ μυσαχθεῖσα ἐρίῳ ἀπομάξασα τὸν γόνον εἰς γῆν ἔρριψε. φευγούσης δὲ αὐτῆς καὶ τῆς γονῆς εἰς γῆν πεσούσης Ἐριχθόνιος γίνεται. τοῦτον Ἀθηνᾶ κρύφα τῶν ἄλλων θεῶν ἔτρεφεν, ἀθάνατον θέλουσα ποιῆσαι· καὶ καταθεῖσα αὐτὸν εἰς κίστην Πανδρόσῳ τῇ Κέκροπος παρακατέθετο, ἀπειποῦσα τὴν κίστην ἀνοίγειν. αἱ δὲ ἀδελφαὶ τῆς Πανδρόσου ἀνοίγουσιν ὑπὸ περιεργίας, καὶ θεῶνται τῷ βρέφει παρεσπειραμένον δράκοντα· καὶ ὡς μὲν ἔνιοι λέγουσιν, ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ διεφθάρησαν τοῦ δράκοντος, ὡς δὲ ἔνιοι, διʼ ὀργὴν Ἀθηνᾶς ἐμμανεῖς γενόμεναι κατὰ τῆς ἀκροπόλεως αὑτὰς ἔρριψαν. ἐν δὲ τῷ τεμένει τραφεὶς Ἐριχθόνιος ὑπʼ αὐτῆς Ἀθηνᾶς, ἐκβαλὼν Ἀμφικτύονα ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀθηνῶν, καὶ τὸ ἐν ἀκροπόλει ξόανον τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ἱδρύσατο, καὶ τῶν Παναθηναίων τὴν ἑορτὴν συνεστήσατο, καὶ Πραξιθέαν 1 -- νηίδα νύμφην ἔγημεν, ἐξ ἧς αὐτῷ παῖς Πανδίων ἐγεννήθη.

13. Lucian, The Dance, 39 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

14. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.2.6, 1.5.3, 1.14.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

1.5.3. I saw also among the eponymoi statues of Cecrops and Pandion, but I do not know who of those names are thus honored. For there was an earlier ruler Cecrops who took to wife the daughter of Actaeus, and a later—he it was who migrated to Euboea—son of Erechtheus, son of Pandion, son of Erichthonius. And there was a king Pandion who was son of Erichthonius, and another who was son of Cecrops the second. This man was deposed from his kingdom by the Metionidae, and when he fled to Megara —for he had to wife the daughter of Pylas king of Megara—his children were banished with him. And Pandion is said to have fallen ill there and died, and on the coast of the Megarid is his tomb, on the rock called the rock of Athena the Gannet. 1.14.6. Above the Cerameicus and the portico called the King's Portico is a temple of Hephaestus. I was not surprised that by it stands a statue of Athena, be cause I knew the story about Erichthonius. But when I saw that the statue of Athena had blue eyes I found out that the legend about them is Libyan. For the Libyans have a saying that the Goddess is the daughter of Poseidon and Lake Tritonis, and for this reason has blue eyes like Poseidon.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aigeus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
apollo	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 250, 878
athena	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 250, 878
athens, imperialism (athenian)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
athens	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 132
autochthony, athenian	Edmunds, Greek Myth (2021) 27
belief/disbelief	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 132
delphi	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
deus ex machina	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
eponymous hero, king'	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
erechtheis	Edmunds, Greek Myth (2021) 27
erechtheus, as father	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
erechtheus, descendant of erichthonios	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
erichthonios, and athena	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
erichthonios, and erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
erichthonios, birth	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
erichthonios, father of pandion	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
erichthonios, founder of athenian royal house	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
erysichthon	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
euripides	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 132
familiar/unfamiliar	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 132
funeral oration	Edmunds, Greek Myth (2021) 27
gibert, j. xxi	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 250
hephaistos	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
hermes	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 250, 878
ion	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 250
kekrops, at birth of erichthonios	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
kekrops, founder of athenian royal house	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
kekrops	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
kreousa, child of erechtheus	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
menexenus	Edmunds, Greek Myth (2021) 27
mills, s. xxiv	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
mimesis	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 132
myth	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 132
near/far	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 132
nomos	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 250
pallas, king	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
pandion, king	Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 67
recognition	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 132
socrates	Edmunds, Greek Myth (2021) 27
theatre	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 132
west, martin	Edmunds, Greek Myth (2021) 27
zacharia, k.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 250