See also:CECROPS (Ke,cpo,ti)
, traditionally the first See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Attica, and the founder of its See also:political See also:life (See also:Pausanias ix
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33)
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He was said to have divided the inhabitants into twelve communities, to have instituted the See also:laws of See also:marriage and See also:property, and a new See also:form of See also:worship
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The introduction of bloodless See also:sacrifice, the See also:burial of the dead, and the invention of See also:writing were also attributed to him
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He is said to have acted as See also:umpire during the dispute of See also:Poseidon and See also:Athena for the See also:possession of Attica
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He decided in favour of the goddess,who planted the firstolivetree, which he adjudged to be more useful than the See also:horse (or See also:water) which Poseidon caused to See also:spring forth from the See also:Acropolis See also:rock with a See also:blow of his See also:trident (See also:Herodotus viii
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55; See also:Apollodorus 14)
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As one of the See also:autochthones of Attica, See also:Cecrops is represented as human in the upper See also:part of his See also:body, while the See also:lower part is
shaped like a See also:dragon (hence he is sometimes called blab or geminus, Diod
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Sic. i
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28; See also:Ovid, Metam. ii
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555)• See also:Miss J
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E
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See also:Harrison (in Classical See also:Review, See also:January 1895) endeavours to show that Cecrops is the See also:husband of Athene, identical with the snake-like See also:Zeus See also:Soter or Sosipolis, and the See also:father of See also:Erechtheus-Erichthonius
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