Pandorus
Greek · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
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
- father: Erechtheus
- mother: Praxithea
Domains
- city founding
Epithets
- Πάνδωρος ὁ Ἐρεχθέως — Pandorus, son of ErechtheusPseudo-Scymnus, Periodos 572-574 (primary)
Relations
- sibling: ProcrisSister; daughter of Erechtheus and Praxithea.Apollod. 3.15.1 (primary)
- sibling: Cecrops IIBrother; son of Erechtheus and Praxithea.Apollod. 3.15.1 (primary)
- sibling: MetionBrother; 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)
Sources
- existence: Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.15.1 (Pandorus, son of Erechtheus) (primary); Pseudo-Scymnus, Periodos / Circuit of the Earth 572-574 (Pandorus son of Erechtheus crosses from Athens to found Chalcis of Euboea) (primary); W. Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1849), s.v. 'Pandorus' (secondary)