Pandion (son of Kekrops)

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Pandion , also called Pandion II. , ( Greek  Πανδίων ) was a king of Attica in Greek mythology .

Pandion II was the result of the duplication of Pandion , the son of Erichthonios . This duplication of the mythical figure also happened to Kekrops and Erichthonios. The result of this procedure can be found for the first time in the Parish Chronicle from the year 264/263 BC. Chr. Pandion as Pandion II. Was now in eighth position on the king list.

Pandion is the son of Kekrops II and Metiadusa . He ascended the throne after his father's death. At the time of his reign, Orestes , who was related to Pandion in the Athenians' self-image, is said to have come to Athens to be cleansed of his matricide, although according to other traditions Pandion lived before the Trojan War and Orestes came to Athens under Demophon .

Pandion was driven out of Athens by the sons of Metion , the Metionides. He fled to Megara to King Pylas and took his daughter Pylia as his wife. According to another tradition, however, he had previously been married to Pylia and fled to Megara with his sons. In Bacchylides wife Creusa is. They had four sons called Pandionids : Aigeus , Pallas, Nisus and Lykos , the Pandionids and a daughter who married Skiron , the son of Pylas , who later fought for the throne with Nisus.

After Pylas killed his father's brother, Bias, he was forced to leave Megara and Pandion became king of Megara instead. Pandion died of illness in Megara and was buried on the cliff of Athena- Aithyia in Megarian lands . A heroon was set up for Pandion in Megara .

After Pandion's death, his sons marched against Athens , defeated the Metionides and Aigeus was able to ascend the throne of Attica. Nisus became king of Megara, Lycus ruled Euboea and Pallas the land in the south.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 15, 5; Pausanias 1, 5, 3.
  2. ↑ Scholien zu Aristophanes , Die Acharner 961 and Die Ritter 95.
  3. ↑ See for example Parische Chronik, entries 16-17.
  4. ^ Parische Chronik, entry 25; Tzetzes , ad Lycophronem 1374; Athenaios , Deipnosophistai 10, 437C; compare to Orestes in Athens also: Suda , keyword Χόες , Adler number: chi 370 , Suda-Online
  5. ↑ a b c Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 15, 5.
  6. ↑ Pausanias 1, 5, 3.
  7. ↑ Bakchylides 17:15.
  8. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 15, 5; Pausanias 4, 1, 6; Strabo 3, 9, 2.
  9. ↑ Pausanias 1, 39, 6.
  10. ↑ Pausanias 1: 5, 3; 1, 39, 4; 1, 46, 6.
  11. ^ Pausanias 1, 41, 6.
  12. ↑ Strabon 9, 392.

literature

predecessor Office successor
Cecrops II. King of Attica Aigeus