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Erichthonius (son of Hephaestus) In Greek mythology, King Erichthonius ( / ərɪkˈθoʊniəs /; Ancient Greek: Ἐριχθόνιος, romanized : Erikhthónios) was a legendary early ruler of ancient Athens. According to some myths, he was autochthonous (born of the soil, or Earth) and adopted or raised by the goddess Athena.
Erechtheion. The Erechtheion [2] ( / ɪˈrɛkθiən /, latinized as Erechtheum / ɪˈrɛkθiəm, ˌɛrɪkˈθiːəm /; Ancient Greek: Ἐρέχθειον, Greek: Ερέχθειο) or Temple of Athena Polias [3] is an ancient Greek Ionic temple on the north side of the Acropolis, Athens, which was primarily dedicated to the goddess Athena .
Erechtheus ( / ɪˈrɛkθjuːs, - θiəs /; Ancient Greek: Ἐρεχθεύς) 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 ...
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Erichthonius is one of the original, legendary kings of the Athenians. In his myth, he was born directly from the soil of Attica, after Hephaestus attempted to rape Athena, but instead cast his seed upon the ground. Athena conceals the child in a basket and entrusts the child to the daughters of Cecrops with a command to never look inside.
When Erichthonius had grown up, he expelled Amphictyon, and usurped the government of Athens, and his wife Pasithea bore him a son Pandion. 5 He is said to have introduced the worship of Athena, to have instituted the festival of the Panathenaea, and to have built a temple of Athena on the acropolis. When Athena and Poseidon disputed about the ...
European Erictonius or Brazilian Erictonius (Greek: Ἐριχθόνιος), in Greek mythology, was the son of Athena and Hephaestus, was (according to some versions) the first mythical king of Athens; according to other versions, Erictonius was the successor of Amphictyon. He reigned from 1 487 BCE to 1 437 BCE, and his successor was Pandion I.
The Discovery of the Child Erichthonius, Peter Paul Rubens. P. Rubens The daughters of Cecrops finding the infant Erichthonius of Athens, 1616. An alternative version of the same story is that, while Athena was gone bringing a mountain from Pallene to use in the Acropolis, the sisters, minus Pandrosus again, opened the box.
