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Xuthus
In Greek mythology, Xuthus (; ''Xouthos'') was a Phthian prince who later became a king of Peloponnesus. He was the founder (through his sons) of the Achaean and Ionian nations. Etymology According to the author Robert Graves, Xuthus' name came from the ancient Greek word , meaning "sparrow". Family Xuthus was a son of King Hellen of Thessaly and the nymph Orseis; and brother of Dorus, Aeolus, Xenopatra and probably Neonus. He had two sons, Ion and Achaeus, and a daughter named Diomede by Creusa, the Athenian daughter of King Erechtheus. Euripides's play, ''Ion'', provided an unusual alternate version, according to which Xuthus was the son of Aeolus and Ion was in fact been begotten on Xuthus's wife Creusa by Apollo. Xuthus and Creusa visited the Oracle at Delphi to ask the god if they could hope for a child, at which point they are told they already have a child, Ion, who was father by Apollo and mothered by Creusa, though Creusa had forgotten her son due to the traum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion (play)
''Ion'' (; , ''Iōn'') is an ancient Greek play by Euripides, thought to have been written between 414 and 412 BC. It follows the orphan Ion, a young and willing servant in Apollo's temple, as he inadvertently discovers his biological origins. As it unfolds the play is also the powerful story of his mother, Creusa, as she strives to guide her own life after having experienced terrible abuse at the hands of a god who is beyond her power (or that of any mortal). Euripides' retelling of this myth is a radical step forward among the Greek tragedies: while in other plays of classical Athens individuals often rail against the disasters that the Fates or the gods have caused to befall them, in this powerful play both Creusa and Ion actually challenge whether the gods have any right to govern the destinies of human beings. In the end, however, Euripides takes a step back from this precipitous development in human thought. Background Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, was a noble native ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creusa Of Athens
In Greek mythology, Creusa (; Ancient Greek: Κρέουσα ''Kreousa'' "princess" ) was an Athenian princess. Family Creusa was the youngest daughter of Erechtheus, King of Athens and his wife, Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia. She was the sister of Protogeneia, Pandora, Procris, Oreithyia, Chthonia, Cecrops, Pandorus and Metion. Her other possible siblings were Merope, Orneus, Thespius, Eupalamus and Sicyon. Apollodorus mentions Creusa as the mother of Achaeus and Ion by her husband Xuthus; she is presumably also the mother of Xuthus' daughter Diomede. However, according to Euripides' ''Ion'', in which she is a prominent character, Creusa was mother of Ion by Apollo, while Xuthus was infertile so he accepted Ion as his own son. Creusa is also mentioned as the mother of Ion with Apollo by Stephanus of Byzantium. Hyginus calls Creusa mother of Cephalus by Hermes. Mythology Creusa was spared of the fate of her sisters because she was an infant at the time they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorus
In Greek mythology, Dorus (, probably derived from ''dōron'' "gift") was the Eponym, eponymous founder of the Dorians. Family Each of Hellen, Hellen's sons founded a primary tribe of Greece: Aeolus (son of Hellen), Aeolus the Aeolians, Dorus the DoriansPseudo-Scymnus, Pseudo-Scymnos, ''Circuit de la terre'' 587 ff. and Xuthus the Achaeans (tribe), Achaeans (from Xuthus's son Achaeus (son of Xuthus), Achaeus) and Ionians (from Xuthus's adopted son Ion (mythology), Ion, in truth a son of the god Apollo), aside from his sister Pandora of Thessaly, Pandora's sons with Zeus. In the account of Hellanicus of Lesbos, Hellanicus, Xenopatra was additionally counted as one of the children of Hellen and the oread Orseis (Othreis) and thus, technically the sister of Dorus. Another possible sibling of Dorus was Neonus who was called the son of Hellen and father of Dotus. In one version of the myth, Dorus was said to be born from Hellen and the nymph Phthia (mythology), Phthia (maybe another f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aeolus (son Of Hellen)
In Greek mythology, Aeolus or Aiolos (; ; ) was the son of Hellen, the ruler of Aeolia (later called Thessaly), and the eponym of the Aeolians, one of the four main tribes of the Greeks. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, Aeolus was the father of seven sons: Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes, Perieres, and five daughters: Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce, and Perimede. He was said to have killed his daughter Canace (or forced her to kill herself) because she had committed incest with her brother Macareus. This Aeolus was sometimes confused with the Aeolus who was the ruler of the winds. Family Aeolus was one of the central figures in the myths that were invented about the origins of the Greek people. He was the grandson of Deucalion the son of Prometheus, and the survivor of a great primordial flood, that covered much, if not all, of Greece (and the rest of the world, in later accounts). From Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha, sprang a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellen
In Greek mythology, Hellen (; ) is the eponymous progenitor of the Greeks, Hellenes. He is the son of Deucalion (or Zeus) and Pyrrha, and the father of three sons, Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus (son of Hellen), Aeolus, by whom he is the ancestor of the Greek peoples. Family The ''Catalogue of Women'' (sixth century BC?) is a fragmentary poem attributed to Hesiod; the work is structured around a large genealogy of mortals, Hellen's family being described in Book 1 of the poem. According to a scholia, scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes' ''Argonautica'', Hellen, in the poem, is called the son of Pyrrha, by either Deucalion, or alternatively, by Prometheus (who is called the father of Deucalion in the same passage). The latter parentage, however, it seems was not a part of the ''Catalogue'', but rather a mistake on the part of the scholion. A scholion on the ''Odyssey'' similarly calls Hellen a son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, giving his siblings as Amphictyon, Protogeneia, and Melanthea (Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion (mythology)
According to Greek mythology, Ion (; ) was eponymous ancestor of the Ionians. Family Ion was the illegitimate child of Creüsa, the daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens and wife of Xuthus. His real father was the god Apollo. Mythology Euripides’ '' Ion'' One story of Ion is told in the tragedy play '' Ion'' by Euripides. Apollo had visited Creusa in a cave below Propylaea where she conceived Ion. When the princess gave birth to the child, she abandoned him in the same cave but Apollo father asked Hermes to take Ion from his cradle. Ion was saved, raised and educated by a priestess of the Delphic Oracle. When the boy had grown, and Xuthus and Creusa came to consult the oracle about the means of obtaining an heir, the answer was, that the first human being which Xuthus met on leaving the temple should be his son. Xuthus met Ion, and recognized him as his son but, in fact, Apollo was giving him Ion as an adoptive son. Creusa, imagining the boy to be a son of her husban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ionians
The Ionians (; , ''Íōnes'', singular , ''Íōn'') were one of the traditional four major tribes of Ancient Greece, alongside the Dorians, Aeolians, and Achaeans. The Ionian dialect was one of the three major linguistic divisions of the Hellenic world, together with the Dorian and Aeolian dialects. When referring to populations, "''Ionian''" defines several groups in Classical Greece. In its narrowest sense, the term referred to the region of Ionia in Asia Minor. In a broader sense, it could be used to describe all speakers of the Ionic dialect, which in addition to those in Ionia proper also included the Greek populations of Euboea, the Cyclades, and many cities founded by Ionian colonists. Finally, in the broadest sense it could be used to describe all those who spoke languages of the East Greek group, which included Attic. The foundation myth which was current in the Classical period suggested that the Ionians were named after Ion, son of Xuthus, who lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achaeans (tribe)
The Achaeans (; ) were one of the four major tribes into which Herodotus divided the Greeks, along with the Aeolians, Ionians and Dorians. They inhabited the region of Achaea in the northern Peloponnese, and played an active role in the colonization of Italy, founding important cities such as Sybaris, Kroton and Metapontum. Unlike the other major tribes, the Achaeans did not have a separate dialect in the Classical period, instead using a form of Doric. Etymology The etymology of the term Ἀχαιοί is unknown. Robert S. P. Beekes proposed that it originated in a Pre-Greek form''*Akaywa-''. Margalit Finkelberg, while acknowledging that its ultimate etymology is unknown, proposed an intermediate Greek form *Ἀχαϝyοί. The term Ἀχαιοί was also used by Homer to refer to Greeks as a whole, and may relate to the Hittite term ''Ahhiyawa'', believed to refer to Mycenaean Greece or part of it. History In the Classical era the Achaeans inhabited the region of Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achaeus (son Of Xuthus)
In Greek mythology, Achaeus or Achaios (; Ancient Greek: Ἀχαιός ''Akhaiós'') was a son of Xuthus and Creusa, and the brother of Ion as well as the grandson of Hellen. According to Pausanias, he was the father of Archander and Architeles, who travelled from Phthiotis to Argos and each married daughters of Danaus. Mythology The Achaeans regarded him as the author of their race, and derived from him their own name as well as that of Achaia, which was formerly called Aegialus. When his uncle Aeolus in Thessaly, whence he himself had come to Peloponnesus, died, he went there and made himself master of Phthiotis, which now also received from him the name of Achaia.Apollodorus1.7.3 Pausanias7.1.3 Strabo8.7.1/ref> Genealogy of Hellenes Notes References * Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-9913 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neonus
In Greek mythology, Neonus (Ancient Greek: Νεώνου) was a Phthian prince as the son of King Hellen of Thessaly, the son of Deucalion, the Hellenic progenitor. His mother was possibly the nymph Orseis ( Othreis), and thus he was probably the brother to Aeolus, Dorus, Xuthus and Xenopatra.Fowler 2013p. 142 Scholia on Plato's ''Symposium In Ancient Greece, the symposium (, ''sympósion'', from συμπίνειν, ''sympínein'', 'to drink together') was the part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, o ...'' 208d (Cufalopp. 108–10 Hellanicusbr>fr. 125 Fowler, pp. 200–1= ''FGrHist'' 323a F23]. Neonus was the father of Dotus, eponym of Dotium in Thessaly.Stephanus of Byzantiums.v. ''Dotion'' (pp. 118, 119) ''FGrHist'604 F3. Note References * Stephanus of Byzantium, ''Stephani Byzantii Ethnica: Volumen II Delta - Iota'', edited by Margarethe Billerbeck and Christian Zubler, De Gruyter, 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erechtheus
Erechtheus (; ) in Greek mythology was a king of Athens, the founder of the ''polis'' and, in his role as god, attached to Poseidon, as "Poseidon 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. Erechtheus I Athenians thought of themselves as ''Erechtheidai'', the "sons of Erechtheus". In Homer's ''Iliad'' (2. 547–48) Erechtheus is the son of "grain-giving Earth", reared by Athena. The earth-born son was sired by Hephaestus, whose semen Athena wiped from her thigh with a fillet of wool cast to earth, by which Gaia was made pregnant. In the contest for patronage of Athens between Poseidon and Athena, the salt spring on the Acropolis where Poseidon's trident struck was known as the ''sea of Erechtheus''. Erechtheus II, king of Athens Family The second Erechtheus was given a historicizing genealogy as son and heir to King Pandion I of Athens by Zeuxippe, this Pandion be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xenopatra
In Greek mythology, Xenopatra (), also called Chthonopatra () was a Phthian princess who later on became the queen of Locris. Biography Xenopatra was the daughter of King Hellen of Thessaly, the eponym of the Hellenes. Her mother was the oread Orseis ( Othreis), and sister to Aeolus, Dorus, Xuthus and probably Neonus.Stephanus of Byzantiums.v. ''Dotion'' (pp. 118, 119) ''FGrHist'604 F3. Chthonopatra married her uncle King Amphictyon of Locris and by him mothered Physcus (mythology), Physcus, his successor. Other possible children of the couple were King Itonus of Iton (Thessaly), Iton and an unnamed daughter who bore Cercyon by Poseidon, and Triptolemus by Rarus.Pausanias1.14.3with Choerilus in his play ''Alope'' as the source Notes References * Cufalo, Domenico, ''Scholia Graeca in Platonem, I: Scholia ad Dialogos Tetralogiarumi - VII Continens'', Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2007. . * Fowler, R. L. (1998), "Genealogical thinking, Hesiod's ''Catalogue'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
