Creusa of Athens
Greek · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
Athenian Erechtheid princess; mother of Ion by Apollo. The Euripidean Ion (~412 BCE) is the major narrative source — a recognition-drama structured around the infant-exposure motif and the eventual reunion at Delphi. The cave-of-rape on the north slope of the Acropolis became a cult-site of Apollo Hypoakraios, attesting the topographic reality of the tradition in classical Athens. Distinct from Creusa wife of Aeneas (mortal Trojan princess, daughter of Priam).
Parentage
- parent: Erechtheus
- parent: Praxithea
Children
Relations
- sibling: ProcrisApollodorus, Bibliotheca (secondary)
- sibling: Cecrops IIApollodorus, Bibliotheca (secondary)
- sibling: PandorusApollodorus, Bibliotheca (secondary)
- sibling: MetionApollodorus, Bibliotheca (secondary)
- spouse: Xuthus
- lover: ApolloRape — Euripides Ion explicitly thematizes the violence and shame.Eur. Ion 10-11; Apollod. 1.7.3 (primary)
- mother of: IonEur. Ion; Apollod. 1.7.3 (primary)
- spouse: Xuthus · GreekSon of Hellen; eponymous-ancestor of various Greek tribes through his sons by Creusa (Achaeus and Diomede in some traditions; Ion's social paternity attributed to him as cover).Eur. Ion 57-67; Apollod. 1.7.3 (primary)