Pandion
Family: Athens · Role: king · First appears: Fable 59
Pandion, king of Athens, was the father of Progne and Philomela. In fable 59, he gave Progne in marriage to Tereus, then took his son-in-law by the hand as he prepared to leave, entrusting his companion to his care with tears; he also asked them to greet his absent daughter and grandson for him.
After the calamity, Pandion died prematurely from grief: “This affliction dispatched Pandion to the shades of Tartarus before his day”. A later account places Erectheus after Pandion in Athens’s succession, following Erecthonius; another identifies Minerva as either the son of Pandion or of Neleus.
Relationship record
Life events
- Pandion dies prematurely from grief caused by the calamity.(Fable60 · 📍 Tartarus)
- “This affliction dispatched Pandion to the shades of Tartarus before his day”
Fable 59
- child: Progne “Tereus, king of Thrace, having married Progne, the daughter of Pandion, king of Athens”
- child: Philomela “when the king drags the daughter of Pandion into a lofty dwelling”
- with Tereus (Tereus is Pandion's son-in-law.) “It was {now} day; and Pandion, grasping the right hand of his son-in-law, about to depart, with tears bursting forth, recommended his companion {to his care}.”
- with Philomela (Philomela is identified as Pandion's daughter earlier, while Itys is identified as the grandson in the same family context.) “bade them, with mindful lips, to salute for him his absent daughter and grandson”
Fable 60
- child: Progne “The Cecropian or Athenian Nymphs are Progne and Philomela, the daughters of Pandion, king of Athens.”
- child: Philomela “The Cecropian or Athenian Nymphs are Progne and Philomela, the daughters of Pandion, king of Athens.”
Fable 61
- child: Progne “Pandion, the father of Progne and Philomela,”
- child: Philomela “Pandion, the father of Progne and Philomela,”
- with Erectheus (Erectheus preceded Pandion in the succession.) “This personage really was king of Athens before Pandion, the father of Progne and Philomela, and not after him, as Ovid here states;”
- with Erecthonius (Erecthonius preceded Pandion in the succession.) “the order of succession being Actæus, Cecrops, Cranaüs, Amphictyon, Erecthonius, Pandion, Erectheus, Cecrops II., Pandion II., Ægeus, Theseus.”
- with Erectheus (Pandion preceded Erectheus in the succession.) “the order of succession being Actæus, Cecrops, Cranaüs, Amphictyon, Erecthonius, Pandion, Erectheus, Cecrops II., Pandion II., Ægeus, Theseus.”
Fable 66
- child: Pallas (father of Clytus and Butes) (One possible genealogy identifies Pandion as Pallas's father.) “This was either Pallas the son of Pandion, king of Athens, or of Neleus, the brother of Theseus.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.