Butes

Family: Athens · Role: son of Pandion · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.14

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Butes)

Life events

• Pandion’s sons divided his inheritance, giving Erechtheus the kingdom and Butes the priesthood.(Apollodorus, Library 3.15)
  • With: Pandion Erechtheus
  • “When Pandion died, his sons divided their father's inheritance between them, and Erechtheus got the kingdom, and Butes got the priesthood of Athena and Poseidon Erechtheus.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.14

• parent: Pandion “and twin sons, Erechtheus and Butes.”
• siblings with Erechtheus “and twin sons, Erechtheus and Butes.”
• siblings with Procne “and begat two daughters, Procne and Philomela, and twin sons, Erechtheus and Butes”
• siblings with Philomela “and begat two daughters, Procne and Philomela, and twin sons, Erechtheus and Butes”

Apollodorus, Library 3.15

• married with Chthonia “Chthonia was married to Butes”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.