Pandorus

Pandorus, son of Erechtheus (greek_erechtheus) and Praxithea (greek_praxithea); the Erechtheid who founded Chalcis in Euboea. Authored as mortal (both parents mortal; colony-founder hero).

Parentage

• Erechtheus
• Praxithea

Domains

• city founding

Epithets

• Πάνδωρος ὁ Ἐρεχθέως

Relations

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

Sources

• Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.15.1 (Pandorus, son of Erechtheus)
• Pseudo-Scymnus, Periodos / Circuit of the Earth 572-574 (Pandorus son of Erechtheus crosses from Athens to found Chalcis of Euboea)
• W. Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1849), s.v. 'Pandorus'