Metion
Greek · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
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
- father: Erechtheus
- mother: Praxithea
Domains
- dynastic ancestry
Relations
- sibling: ProcrisSister; daughter of Erechtheus and Praxithea.Apollod. 3.15.1 (primary)
- sibling: Cecrops IIBrother; son of Erechtheus and Praxithea. Metion's sons later drove Cecrops II's grandson Pandion II from Athens.Apollod. 3.15.1, 3.15.5 (primary)
- sibling: PandorusBrother; son of Erechtheus and Praxithea.Apollod. 3.15.1 (primary)
- sibling: OreithyiaSister; the daughter carried off by Boreas (existing figure).Apollod. 3.15.1-2 (primary)
- sibling: Creusa of AthensSister; the youngest daughter Creusa, mother of Ion (existing figure).Apollod. 3.15.1 (primary)