Cecrops II

Cecrops II, eldest son of Erechtheus (greek_erechtheus) and Praxithea (greek_praxithea); king of Athens and father of Pandion II. Authored as mortal (both parents mortal; Athenian royal). His son Pandion II and grandsons are named in prose but are not in the corpus and are not wired.

Parentage

• Erechtheus
• Praxithea

Domains

• kingship

Epithets

• Κέκροψ ὁ δεύτερος

Relations

• sibling: Procris
• sibling: Pandorus
• sibling: Metion
• sibling: Oreithyia
• sibling: Creusa

Sources

• Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.15.1 and 3.15.5 (Cecrops son of Erechtheus; father of Pandion II)
• Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.5.3 (the later Cecrops, son of Erechtheus, distinguished from Cecrops I); 7.1.2