-
Erechtheus". The name
Erichthonius is
carried by a son of
Erechtheus, but
Plutarch conflated the two
names in the myth of the
begetting of
Erechtheus...
- Erecthēιs (Ερεχθηίς), "sea of
Erechtheus". In
Acropolis his cult was
superimposed on the cult of the
local ancestral figure Erechtheus. In
Athens and
Asine he...
- "strong-built
house of
Erechtheus"
recorded in the
Homeric tradition. The well may be an
indication of the
location of the cult of
Erechtheus. The archaeology...
- twin Boreads,
Zetes and Calaïs.
Orithyia was the
fifth daughter of King
Erechtheus of
Athens and his wife, Praxithea,
daughter of
Phrasimus and Diogeneia...
- the cult of the
archaic king Poseidon-
Erechtheus,
housed the
altars of
Hephaestus and Voutos,
brother of
Erechtheus.
Little is
known about the original...
- "princess" ) was an
Athenian princess.
Creusa was the
youngest daughter of
Erechtheus, King of
Athens and his wife, Praxithea,
daughter of
Phrasimus and Diogeneia...
-
autochthonous (earth-born),
because the
legendary founder of Athens,
Erechtheus was an
autochthon or of
being musicians,
because the
cicada is a "musician"...
-
goddess Athena.
Early Gr****
texts do not
distinguish between him and
Erechtheus, his grandson, but by the
fourth century BC,
during classical times, they...
- the soil there,
impregnating Gaia and
leading to the
birth of
Erechtheus.
After Erechtheus is born,
Athena takes the baby into her care and
places him into...
- of Athens, is
deposed and
succeeded by Menestheus, great-grandson of
Erechtheus and
second cousin of Theseus'
father Aegeus.
Menestheus is reportedly...
