Ion

Family: Athenian · Role: commander · First appears: Book 7 · §86–99

Life events

• The Athenians took the name Ionians from Ion.(Book 8 · §43–54)
  • With: Xuthos
  • “after Ion the son of Xuthos became commander of the Athenians, they got the name from him of Ionians.”

Book 7 · §86–99

• parent: Xuthos “Now the Ionians, so long time as they dwelt in the Peloponnese, in the land which is now called Achaia, and before the time when Danaos and Xuthos came to the Peloponnese, were called, as the Hellenes report, Pelasgians of the Coast-land, and then Ionians after Ion the son of Xuthos.”

Book 8 · §43–54

• parent: Xuthos “after Ion the son of Xuthos became commander of the Athenians, they got the name from him of Ionians.”

Also listed in Athenian — Minor Figures

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