Xuthus

Role: man · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 31

In Book 1, Ion, Xuthus’s son, commanded the Athenians in their war against the Eleusinians and received a tomb at Potami. In Book 7, after Hellen’s death, Hellen’s sons expelled Xuthus from Thessaly, accusing him of taking their father’s money.

After the death of Erechtheus, Xuthus was chosen to decide which of his sons should be king. He favored Cecrops the younger’s elder brother, and Erechtheus’s other sons drove him out of the country. Xuthus fled to Athens, married Erechtheus’s daughter, and had two sons, Achæus and Ion. Bura, daughter of Ion and Helice, gave her name to the town of Bura.

Relationship record

Life events

• Ion commanded the Athenians in their war against the Eleusinians and received a tomb at Potami.(Book 1 · Chapter 31 · 📍 Potami)
  • With: Ion
  • “And Ion the son of Xuthus, (for he too dwelt in Attica, and commanded the Athenians in the war against the Eleusinians,) has a tomb in the place called Potami”
• Xuthus was expelled from Thessaly after being accused of stealing Hellen’s money.(Book 7 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Thessaly)
  • With: Hellen
  • “After the death of Hellen his sons chased their brother Xuthus out of Thessaly, accusing him of having privately helped himself to their father’s money.”
• Xuthus favored Cecrops for kingship and was driven out by Erechtheus’s other sons.(Book 7 · Chapter 1)
  • With: Erechtheus Cecrops
  • “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:”

Book 1 · Chapter 31

• child: Ion “And Ion the son of Xuthus, (for he too dwelt in Attica, and commanded the Athenians in the war against the Eleusinians,)”

Book 2 · Chapter 14

• child: Ion “Ion the son of Xuthus, who had been chosen commander in chief by the Athenians”

Book 2 · Chapter 26

• child: Ion (Xuthus is stated to be Ion's father.) “Pityreus, the descendant of Ion the son of Xuthus.”

Book 7 · Chapter 1

• parent: Hellen “After the death of Hellen his sons chased their brother Xuthus out of Thessaly, accusing him of having privately helped himself to their father’s money.”
• with Erechtheus (Xuthus became the son-in-law of Erechtheus.) “And he fled to Athens, and was thought worthy to marry the daughter of Erechtheus, and he had by her two sons Achæus and Ion.”
• child: Achæus “And he fled to Athens, and was thought worthy to marry the daughter of Erechtheus, and he had by her two sons Achæus and Ion.”
• child: Ion “And he fled to Athens, and was thought worthy to marry the daughter of Erechtheus, and he had by her two sons Achæus and Ion.”
• with Cecrops the younger (Xuthus decided in favour of Cecrops for the kingship.) “because he decided in favour of Cecrops the eldest”

Book 7 · Chapter 4

• child: Ion “Ion the son of Xuthus”

Book 7 · Chapter 25

• child: Ion “The town got its name they say from Bura the daughter of Ion, the Son of Xuthus by Helice.”
• younger kin: Bura (Xuthus is Bura's grandfather.) “The town got its name they say from Bura the daughter of Ion, the Son of Xuthus by Helice.”

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