Erichthonius
Family: Athens · Role: ancestor · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 2
Erichthonius was born to Hephæstus and Mother Earth. In Book 1, Chapter 2, he and his fellow conspirators expelled Amphictyon from the kingdom.
In Book 1, Chapter 18, Athene placed him in a chest and entrusted him to Aglaurus, Erse and Pandrosus, forbidding them to look inside. Aglaurus and Erse opened it, went mad at the sight of Erichthonius, and threw themselves down the Acropolis. Later material identifies Pandion as his son and Cecrops the younger as his great-grandson.
Relationship record
Life events
- Erichthonius and his conspirators expelled Amphictyon from the kingdom.(Book 1 · Chapter 2)
- With: Amphictyon
- “but was himself afterwards ejected by Erichthonius and his fellow conspirators.”
- Athene entrusted Erichthonius to three sisters in a forbidden chest.(Book 1 · Chapter 18)
- Aglaurus and Erse opened the chest, went mad, and threw themselves down the Acropolis.(Book 1 · Chapter 18 · 📍 Acropolis)
Book 1 · Chapter 2
- enemies with Amphictyon “was himself afterwards ejected by Erichthonius and his fellow conspirators”
- parent: Hephæstus “his parents were Hephæstus and Mother Earth”
- parent: Mother Earth “his parents were Hephæstus and Mother Earth”
Book 1 · Chapter 5
- child: Pandion (son of Erichthonius) “the two Pandion kings were the son of Erichthonius and the son of Cecrops the younger”
- with Cecrops the younger (Erichthonius is identified as Cecrops the younger's great-grandfather.) “the other, who settled at Eubœa, was the son of Erechtheus, the grandson of Pandion and the great grandson of Erichthonius”
Book 1 · Chapter 18
- with Athene (Athene entrusted Erichthonius to Aglaurus, Erse, and Pandrosus.) “they say Athene gave Erichthonius, after putting him in a chest and forbidding them to pry into the contents.”
- guardian: Aglaurus (Aglaurus was entrusted with Erichthonius together with her sisters.) “to whom and to her sisters Erse and Pandrosus they say Athene gave Erichthonius, after putting him in a chest and forbidding them to pry into the contents.”
- guardian: Erse (Erse was entrusted with Erichthonius together with her sisters.) “to whom and to her sisters Erse and Pandrosus they say Athene gave Erichthonius, after putting him in a chest and forbidding them to pry into the contents.”
- guardian: Pandrosus (Pandrosus was entrusted with Erichthonius together with her sisters.) “to whom and to her sisters Erse and Pandrosus they say Athene gave Erichthonius, after putting him in a chest and forbidding them to pry into the contents.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.