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Amphictyon is sometimes called son of
Deucalion 1 &
Pyrrha 1. Deucalion
1, son of Prometheus
1, is the man who survived the
Flood. Amphictyon expelled
Cranaus from the throne of
Athens, became king of
Attica and was in turn expelled by Erichthonius 2.
Amphictyon married Atthis, after whom the country
was called Attica, which before was named Actaea.
According to some, however, Atthis, who was the
daughter of King Cranaus & Pedias, daughter of
Mynes 1, a Lacedaemonian, died a maid. Amphictyon
is father of Itonus 1, father of Boeotus, after
whom the Boeotians are called. He is also said to
have a daughter who consorted with
Poseidon giving birth
to Cercyon 1, a bandit killed by
Theseus. Amphictyon's
Daughter, whose name is unknown, is also said to
be, by a man called Rarus, the mother of
Triptolemus, the
young man who received from
Demeter a chariot of
winged Dragons and wheat with which, flying through
the sky, sowed the inhabited earth, teaching the
art of growing crops [Apd.1.7.2, 3.14.6; Pau.1.2.6,
1.14.3, 5.1.4].
Aras is considered to be the first man in
Phliasia, a place near Sicyonia, not far from the
isthmus of Corinth. Aras
had a son Aoris, who was a hunter and a warrior,
and a daughter Araethyrea. Both were buried after
their death in the Arantine Hill in western
Argolis. Araethyrea married Cisus, who became King
of Argos after Deiphontes;
these two are counted among the
HERACLIDES. The son
of Cisus & Araethyrea, according to the
Argives, was Phlias, and he is the eponym of
Phliasia and the Phliasians [Pau.2.12.4-5].
Castalius was a Phocian. He had a
daughter Thyia 1, who was priestess of
Dionysus 2, and as it
is said, the first to celebrate orgies in his
honour. Some say that Delphus, after whom the city
of Delphi was named, is
the son of Apollo &
Thyia 1 [Pau.10.6.4].
Cecrops 1 had a body compounded of man
and serpent. He was the first king of
Athens and under his
kingdom the country was adjudged to
Athena. He received the
kingdom from Actaeus 1 who had ruled in Attica,
after marrying his daughter Aglaurus 1. Aglaurus 1
gave birth to Erysichthon 1, Aglaurus 2, Herse 2
and Pandrosus. Erysichthon 1 died before his father
[for the other children see
Athens and
Envy]. Some have said that
Cecrops 1 is a son of Gaia
[Apd.3.14.1-2; Hyg.Ast.2.29; Hyg.Fab.48; Lib.Met.6;
Nonn.41.59; Pau.1.2.6].
Coresus 1 is known for having founded the
sanctuary of Ephesian
Artemis [Pau.7.2.7].
Cranaus is the king of
Athens who was dethroned
by Amphictyon [see above] and after fleeing died
and was buried in Lamptrae in Attica. It was in his
time that the Flood in the
age of Deucalion 1
took place. Cranaus was by Pedias, father of Cranae
1, Cranaechme and Atthis [Apd.3.14.5-6; Pau.1.2.6,
1.31.3].
Erichthonius 2. The lower part of
Erichthonius 2's body was snakeformed, as it was
the case with Cecrops 1 [see above]. Erichthonius 2
became king of Athens
after having expelled Amphictyon. Some say that
Erichthonius 2 was not a son of the soil bu that
his father was
Hephaestus, and some
call his mother Atthis, others
Gaia, and still others
Athena. These add that
Athena brought him up
unknown to the other gods, and that when
Erichthonius 2 died he was buried in the same
precinct of Athena where
he had been brought up by the goddess [see more
details at Envy].
Erichthonius 2 married the Naiad Praxithea 2 and
their son was Pandion 2, who became King of
Athens after the death of
his father [Apd.3.14.6-7; Eur.Ion.21; Hyg.Ast.2.13;
Hyg.Fab.48, 166; Pau.1.2.6].
Evenor 4 is a inhabitant of
Atlantis. He had a
daughter Cleito 2 by Leucippe 6. Cleito 2 consorted
with Poseidon and they
had five pairs of twins [see
Atlantis] [Pla.Cri.113d
et seq.].
Indus 2. The Indians are sprung from
Indus 2. He was killed by
Zeus [Nonn.18.271].
Lelex 2 is the first king of Laconia (the
southernmost part of the Peloponnesus), said to
have arrived from Egypt. Yet some say that Lelex 2
was AUTOCHTHONOUS;
others say he was son of
Poseidon and Libya. By
the naiad Cleocharia he fathered Eurotas, Myles,
Polycaon 1, Cleson, and Bias 6 [Apd.3.10.3, 3.15.5;
Pau.1.39.6, 1.44.3, 3.1.1].
Palaechthon is the father of Pelasgus 1
[see below] [Aes.Supp.250].
Pelasgus 1. King in Peloponnesus before
the time of Lycaon 2
after whom the inhabitants of the Peloponnesus were
called Pelasgians. Otherwise he is remembered as
the king of Argos to whom
the DANAIDS came [see
also these]. Pelasgus 1 was either an autochthon,
or a son of Zeus and Niobe
1 (the daughter of
Phoroneus), or a son
of Palaechthon [see above]. He is father of
Lycaon 2 and Temenus 3;
his wife was either Meliboea 1 (one of the
OCEANIDS), or Cyllene 1
(one of the NYMPHS), or
Deianira 4 (daughter of Lycaon 6, son of Aezeius,
one of the first kings of the Peloponnesus)
[Aes.Supp.250 and passim; Apd.2.1.1, 3.8.1;
DH.1.11.2; Pau.8.22.1].
Periphas 6 is said to have reigned in
Attica before the time of Cecrops 1 [see Cecrops 1
above]. He was turned by
Zeus into an eagle
[Lib.Met.6].
Phigalus is the founder of Phigalia, a
city in Arcadia. Some
say that he was the son of
Lycaon 2 [Pau.8.39.1-2].
Phlegyas 1. King of the Phlegyans in
Boeotia. He was succeeded on the throne by Chryses
1, father of Minyas
according to some. Phlegyas 1 is sometimes said to
be the father of Coronis 2, mother of
Asclepius. Some have
said that Phlegyas 1's father was
Ares, and that his mother
was either Dotis, or Chryse 1, daughter of Almus,
son of Sisyphus.
Phlegyas 1 was murdered by Lycus 5 and Nycteus 2,
the brothers who usurped power in
Thebes [Apd.3.5.5,
3.10.3; Hom.Asc.16; Hes.CWE.89; Nonn.29.31;
Pau.9.36.1-4].
Tyllus is father of Halie 2, who married
Cotys 2, son of Manes, said to be the first king of
Lydia. The children of Cotys 2 and Halie 2 were
Asies and Atys 3. The latter was King of Lydia
after his father and was also said to be a
descendant of Heracles
1 and Omphale [DH.1.27.1].
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