Ion

Family: Athenians · Role: man · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 31

Life events

Ion commanded the Athenians in their war against the Eleusinians and received a tomb at Potami.(Book 1 · Chapter 31 · 📍 Potami)
- With: Xuthus
- “And Ion the son of Xuthus, (for he too dwelt in Attica, and commanded the Athenians in the war against the Eleusinians,) has a tomb in the place called Potami”
Ion was chosen commander in chief by the Athenians for the war against Eleusis.(Book 2 · Chapter 14)
- “Ion the son of Xuthus, who had been chosen commander in chief by the Athenians in the war against the people of Eleusis”
Dysaules was driven from Eleusis and established Demeter’s rites in the Phliasian country.(Book 2 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Eleusis)
- With: Dysaules
- “came to their country and established these rites, when he was driven from Eleusis by Ion”
Ion accepted Selinus’s offer to marry Helice and become his adopted son and heir.(Book 7 · Chapter 1)
- With: Selinus Helice
- “received messengers from Selinus offering him his only child Helice in marriage, and adopting him as his son and heir. And Ion was very well contented with this,”
Ion succeeded Selinus, built Helice, and named it after his wife.(Book 7 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Helice)
- With: Selinus
- “and after the death of Selinus reigned over the Ægialians, and built Helice which he called after the name of his wife,”
Ion died in Attica and was buried at Potamos.(Book 7 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Attica)
- “death seized him in Attica, and he was buried at Potamos, a village in Attica.”

parent: Xuthus “And Ion the son of Xuthus, (for he too dwelt in Attica, and commanded the Athenians in the war against the Eleusinians,)”

parent: Xuthus “Ion the son of Xuthus, who had been chosen commander in chief by the Athenians”
with Dysaules (Ion drove Dysaules from Eleusis.) “They say that Dysaules the brother of Celeus came to their country and established these rites, when he was driven from Eleusis by Ion the son of Xuthus, who had been chosen commander in chief by the Athenians in the war against the people of Eleusis.”

parent: Xuthus (Xuthus is stated to be Ion's father.) “Pityreus, the descendant of Ion the son of Xuthus.”
with Pityreus (Ion is stated to be Pityreus's ancestor.) “Pityreus, the descendant of Ion the son of Xuthus.”
with Pityreus (Pityreus is described as a descendant of Ion.) “Pityreus, the descendant of Ion the son of Xuthus.”

parent: Xuthus “And he fled to Athens, and was thought worthy to marry the daughter of Erechtheus, and he had by her two sons Achæus and Ion.”
siblings with Achæus “And he fled to Athens, and was thought worthy to marry the daughter of Erechtheus, and he had by her two sons Achæus and Ion.”
courtship with Helice “Ion, while gathering together an army against the Ægialians and their king Selinus, received messengers from Selinus offering him his only child Helice in marriage, and adopting him as his son and heir.”
married with Helice “And Ion was very well contented with this, and after the death of Selinus reigned over the Ægialians, and built Helice which he called after the name of his wife, and called the inhabitants of Ægialus Ionians after him.”

parent: Xuthus “Ion the son of Xuthus”
with Procles (son of Pityreus) (Ion is identified as an ancestor of Procles.) “Procles himself was a descendant of Ion the son of Xuthus”
younger kin: Procles (son of Pityreus) (Ion is an ancestor of Procles.) “Procles himself was a descendant of Ion the son of Xuthus”

child: Bura “The town got its name they say from Bura the daughter of Ion, the Son of Xuthus by Helice.”
parent: Xuthus “The town got its name they say from Bura the daughter of Ion, the Son of Xuthus by Helice.”

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