Metion

Metion, son of Erechtheus (greek_erechtheus) and Praxithea (greek_praxithea); eponymous ancestor of the Metionidae and grandfather of Daedalus through his son Eupalamus. Authored as mortal (both parents mortal; Athenian royal). His descendants (Eupalamus, Sicyon, Daedalus) and the displaced Pandion II are named in prose but are not in the corpus and are not wired. A minority tradition makes Daedalus's father Metion directly, or Eupalamus the son of Erechtheus rather than of Metion; the dominant Apollodoran line (Metion > Eupalamus > Daedalus) is followed here.

Parentage

• Erechtheus
• Praxithea

Domains

• dynastic ancestry

Relations

• sibling: Procris
• sibling: Cecrops II
• sibling: Pandorus
• sibling: Oreithyia
• sibling: Creusa

Sources

• Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.15.1 (Metion, son of Erechtheus), 3.15.5 (the Metionidae expel Pandion II), 3.15.8 (Daedalus, son of Eupalamus, son of Metion)
• Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.5.3; 2.6.5 (the Metionid line); Diodorus Siculus 4.76.1 (Daedalus' descent)