Cecrops

Role: mythical king · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 27

Life events

After Actæus died, Cecrops succeeded to the kingdom.(Book 1 · Chapter 2)
- With: Actæus
- “and on his death Cecrops succeeded to the kingdom”
Erysichthon died before reigning, and Cranaus inherited Cecrops’s kingdom.(Book 1 · Chapter 2)
- With: Erysichthon Cranaus
- “He never reigned over the Athenians, for he chanced to die in his father’s lifetime, and the kingdom of Cecrops fell to Cranaus,”
Colænus ruled Athens before Cecrops, according to Myrrhinus tradition.(Book 1 · Chapter 31 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Colænus
- “Now Colænus is the name of a king who ruled at Athens before Cecrops, according to the tradition of the people of Myrrhinus”
Xuthus favored Cecrops for kingship and was driven out by Erechtheus’s other sons.(Book 7 · Chapter 1)
- With: Xuthus Erechtheus
- “After the death of Erechtheus he was chosen to decide which of his sons should be king, and, because he decided in favour of Cecrops the eldest, the other sons of Erechtheus drove him out of the country:”
Cecrops first proclaimed Zeus supreme and rejected sacrifices of living creatures.(Book 8 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Zeus
- “For Cecrops was the first to call Zeus supreme, and did not think it right to sacrifice anything that had life”

with Hermes (Cecrops is said to have dedicated Hermes as a votive offering.) “a Hermes of wood, (said to be a votive offering of Cecrops,)”

Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.