Cecrops

Family: Cecrops's family · Role: father · First appears: Fable 23

Fable 23

• child: Pandrosos “had given it to keep to the three virgins born of the two-shaped[71] Cecrops”
• child: Herse “had given it to keep to the three virgins born of the two-shaped[71] Cecrops”
• child: Aglauros “had given it to keep to the three virgins born of the two-shaped[71] Cecrops”

Fable 27

• child: Herse “Mercury, falling in love with Herse, the daughter of Cecrops,”

Fable 28

• child: Aglauros “Infect one of the daughters of Cecrops with thy poison; there is occasion so {to do}; Aglauros is she.”
• child: Herse (Herse is identified as one of Cecrops's daughters earlier in the chapter.) “And that these causes of mischief may not wander through too wide a space, she places her sister before her eyes, and the fortunate marriage of {that} sister, and the God under his beauteous appearance, and aggravates each particular.”

Fable 61

• with Actæus (Actæus preceded Cecrops in the succession.) “the order of succession being Actæus, Cecrops, Cranaüs, Amphictyon, Erecthonius, Pandion, Erectheus, Cecrops II., Pandion II., Ægeus, Theseus.”
• with Cranaüs (Cecrops preceded Cranaüs in the succession.) “the order of succession being Actæus, Cecrops, Cranaüs, Amphictyon, Erecthonius, Pandion, Erectheus, Cecrops II., Pandion II., Ægeus, Theseus.”

Fable 66

• child: Herse “Mercury and Herse, the daughter of Cecrops.”

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