Cranaus

Role: king of the Athenians · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 2

After Erysichthon died in his father’s lifetime, the kingdom of Cecrops passed to Cranaus. He had a daughter, Atthis, and was later deposed by Amphictyon, who was married to his daughter and was also his kinsman.

After his expulsion from kingship at Athens, Cranaus fled with his adherents to the Lamprian township, where he was killed and buried.

Relationship record

Life events

• Erysichthon died before reigning, and Cranaus inherited Cecrops’s kingdom.(Book 1 · Chapter 2)
  • With: Erysichthon Cecrops
  • “He never reigned over the Athenians, for he chanced to die in his father’s lifetime, and the kingdom of Cecrops fell to Cranaus,”
• Amphictyon rebelled against Cranaus and deposed him from the kingdom.(Book 1 · Chapter 2)
  • With: Amphictyon
  • “Amphictyon rose up in insurrection against Cranaus, although he was married to his daughter, and deposed him from the kingdom;”
• Amphictyon expelled Cranaus from kingship at Athens.(Book 1 · Chapter 31)
  • With: Amphictyon
  • “That Cranaus the king of the Athenians was expelled by Amphictyon, though he was his kinsman”
• Cranaus fled to the Lamprian township, where he was killed and buried.(Book 1 · Chapter 31 · 📍 Lamprian township)
  • “when he fled with his adherents to the Lamprian township he was killed and buried there”

Book 1 · Chapter 2

• with Cecrops (first king of Athens) (Cranaus succeeded Cecrops as king.) “the kingdom of Cecrops fell to Cranaus”
• child: Atthis “Cranaus had among other daughters Atthis”
• enemies with Amphictyon “Amphictyon rose up in insurrection against Cranaus, although he was married to his daughter, and deposed him from the kingdom”

Book 1 · Chapter 31

• with Amphictyon (Amphictyon expelled Cranaus; the text also explicitly calls them kinsmen.) “That Cranaus the king of the Athenians was expelled by Amphictyon, though he was his kinsman”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.