Pausanias' Description of Greece

Pandion

Family: Athenian · Role: father of Lycus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 19

Life events

  • Pylas bequeathed Megaris to Pandion.(Book 1 · Chapter 39 · 📍 Megaris)
    • With: Pylas
    • “Next to Eleusis is the district called Megaris: it too belonged originally to the Athenians, having been bequeathed to Pandion by (its) king Pylas.”
  • Lycus established the sacred rites of Atthis at Andania.(Book 4 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Andania)
    • With: Lycus Atthis
    • “But I wonder that Lycus the son of Pandion should establish the sacred rites of Atthis in venerable Andania.”

Book 1 · Chapter 19

  • child: Lycus “And the Lyceum gets its name from Lycus the son of Pandion, but is now as of old considered a temple of Apollo, for Apollo was here called Lyceus originally.”

Book 1 · Chapter 39

  • child: Nisus “Nisus, though he conceded the kingdom of Attica to Ægeus the head of the family”
  • with Pylas (interaction) “it too belonged originally to the Athenians, having been bequeathed to Pandion by (its) king Pylas.”

Book 1 · Chapter 41

  • child: Procne (Parent-to-child.) “Tereus, who married Procne the daughter of Pandion”

Book 4 · Chapter 1

  • child: Lycus (Pandion is the father of Lycus.) “And that this Lycus was the son of Pandion is plain by the inscription on the statue of Methapus.”

Book 4 · Chapter 2

  • child: Lycus “And Lycus the son of Pandion came also to Arene”

Book 4 · Chapter 20

  • child: Lycus (Pandion is Lycus's father.) “the oracular utterances of Lycus the son of Pandion”

Book 9 · Chapter 33

  • child: Cecrops (son of Pandion) “At Haliartus is Lysander’s tomb, and a hero-chapel to Cecrops the son of Pandion.”

Book 10 · Chapter 12

  • child: Lycus “Lycus the son of Pandion”

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