Erectheus

Role: king of Athens · First appears: Fable 61

Life events

Erectheus refuses Boreas’s request to marry Orithyïa.(Fable61)
- With: Boreas Orithyïa
- “Boreas, not obtaining the consent of Erectheus, king of Athens, for the marriage of his daughter, Orithyïa”
Erectheus unites Cephalus and Procris in marriage.(Fable68)
- With: Cephalus Procris
- “Her father Erectheus united her to me; love, {too}, united her to me.”

child: Orithyïa “Boreas, not obtaining the consent of Erectheus, king of Athens, for the marriage of his daughter, Orithyïa, takes that princess in his arms, and carries her away into Thrace.”
with Boreas (Erectheus is identified as Boreas's father-in-law.) “By these means should I have sought this alliance; and Erectheus ought not to have been entreated {to be} my father-in-law, but made so by force.”
with Boreas (Boreas seeks a marriage alliance with Erectheus.) “By these means should I have sought this alliance; and Erectheus ought not to have been entreated {to be} my father-in-law, but made so by force.”
with Pandion (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 Pandion (Pandion preceded Erectheus in the succession.) “the order of succession being Actæus, Cecrops, Cranaüs, Amphictyon, Erecthonius, Pandion, Erectheus, Cecrops II., Pandion II., Ægeus, Theseus.”
with Cecrops II. (Erectheus preceded Cecrops II. in the succession.) “the order of succession being Actæus, Cecrops, Cranaüs, Amphictyon, Erecthonius, Pandion, Erectheus, Cecrops II., Pandion II., Ægeus, Theseus.”

married with Praxithea (Praxithea is Erectheus's wife.) “She was the wife of Erectheus”

child: Procris “Her father Erectheus united her to me; love, {too}, united her to me.”
child: Orithyïa “She was the daughter of Erectheus, king of Athens, and was carried off by Boreas, as already stated.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.