Ericthonius

Role: offspring · First appears: Fable 23

Life events

• Minerva entrusted Ericthonius in a basket to Cecrops’s three daughters, forbidding them to inspect it.(Fable23)
  • With: Minerva Aglauros Herse Pandrosos
  • “Pallas had enclosed Ericthonius, an offspring born without a mother, in a basket made of Actæan twigs; and had given it to keep to the three virgins born of the two-shaped[71] Cecrops, and had given them this injunction, that they should not inquire into her secrets.”
• Aglauros untied the basket and discovered Ericthonius with a dragon beside him.(Fable23)
  • With: Aglauros
  • “Aglauros alone calls her sisters cowards, and unties the knots with her hand; but within they behold a child, and a dragon extended by him.”

Fable 23

• guardian: Minerva “Pallas had enclosed Ericthonius, an offspring born without a mother, in a basket made of Actæan twigs”

Fable 80

• with Mulciber (interaction) “Mulciber demanded for Ericthonius a life to live over again”

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