| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| King name "Aegicores" | Greek | A son of Ion, a king of Athens between the reigns of Erechtheus and Cecrops. Greek |
| King name "Argades" | Greek | A son of Ion, a king of Athens between the reigns of Erechtheus and Cecrops |
| King name "Creusa" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Oceåñuś and Ge. She was a Naid, and became by Peneius the mother of Hypseus, king of the Lapithae, and of Stilbe. 2. A daughter of Erechtheus and Praxithea, was married to Xuthus, by whom she became the mother of Achaeus and Ion. Greek |
| Hero name "Erechtheus Erichthonius" | Greek | There can be little doubt but that the names Erichthonius and Erechtheus are identical; but whether the two heroes mentioned by Plato, Hyginus, and Apollodorus, the one of whom is usually called Erichthonius or Erechtheus I. and the other Erechtheus II., are likewise one and the same person, as Muller and others think, is not so certain, though highly probable. Greek |
| King name "Geleon" | Greek | A son of Ion, a king of Athens between the reigns of Erechtheus and Cecrops |
| King name "Hoples" | Greek | A son of Ion, a king of Athens between the reigns of Erechtheus and Cecrops |
| Nymph name "Hyades" | Greek | That is, the Rainy, the name of a clåśś of nymphs whose number, names, and descent, are described in various ways by the ancients. Their parents were Atlas and Aethra, Atlas and Pleione, or Hyas and Boeotia; and others call their father Oceåñuś, Melisseus, Cadmilus, or Erechtheus. Greek |
"Ion" | Greek | The fabulous ancestor of the Ionians, a son of Apollo by Creusa, the daughter of Erechtheus and wife of Xuthus. |
| King name "Metion" | Greek | A son of Erechtheus and Praxithea, and husband of Alcippe. His sons, the Metionidae, expelled their cousin Pandion from his kingdom of Athens, but were themselves afterwards expelled by the sons of Pandion. Greek |
"Orneus" | Greek | A son of Erechtheus, father of Peteus, and grandfather of Menestheus; from him the town of Orneae was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
"Pleiades" | Greek | Called daughters of Atlas by Pleione or by the Oceanid Aethra, of Erechtheus, of Cadmus or of the queen of the Amazons. Greek |
"Praxithea" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia, was the wife of Erechtheus, and mother of Cecrops, Pandorus, Metion, Orneus, Procris, Creusa, Chthonia, and Oreithyia. Some call her a daughter of Cephissus. |
| King name "Xuthus" | Greek | A son of Hellen by the nymph Orseis, and a brother of Dorus and Aeolus. He was king of Peloponnesus, and the husband of Creusa, the daughter of Erechtheus, by whom he became the father of Achaeus and Ion (Apollodorus i). Greek |
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