ERECHTHEUS  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, a mythical 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:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens, originally identified with Erichthonius, but in later times distinguished from him . According to See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer, who knows nothing of Erichthonius, he was the son of Aroura (See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

Earth), brought up by See also:

• ATHENA (the Attic form of the Homeric Athene, also called Athenaia, Pallas Athene, Pallas)

Athena, with whom his See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story is closely connected . In the later story, Erichthonius (son of See also:

• HEPHAESTUS

Hephaestus and See also:

• ATTHIS (an adjective meaning " Attic ")

Atthis or Athena herself) was handed over by Athena to the three daughters of See also:

• CECROPS (Ke,cpo,ti)

Cecrops—Aglauros (or Agraulos), Herse and Pandrosos—in a See also:

• CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

chest, which they were forbidden to open . Aglauros and Herse disobeyed the See also:

• INJUNCTION (from Lat. injungere, to fasten, or attach to, to lay a burden or charge on, to enjoin)

injunction, and when they saw the See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child (which had the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of a snake, or See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round which a snake was coiled) they went mad with fright, and threw themselves from the See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock of the See also:

• ACROPOLIS (Gr. aKpos, top, a6)Xts, city)

Acropolis (or were killed by the snake) . Athena herself then undertook the care of Erichthonius, who, when he See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew up, drove out Amphictyon and took See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of the See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of Athens . Here he established the See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship of Athena, instituted the See also:

• PANATHENAEA

Panathenaea, and built an See also:

• ERECHTHEUM

Erechtheum . The Erechtheus of later times was supposed to be the See also:

• GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson of Erechtheus-Erichthonius, and was also king of Athens . When Athens was attacked by the Thracian See also:

• EUMOLPUS (" sweet singer ")

Eumolpus (or by the Eleusinians assisted by Eumolpus) victory was promised Erechtheus if he sacrificed one of his daughters . Eumolpus was slain and Erechtheus was victorious, but was himself killed by See also:

• POSEIDON

Poseidon, the See also:

• FATHER

father of Eumolpus, or by a thunderbolt from See also:

• ZEUS

Zeus . The contest between Erechtheus and Eumolpus formed the subject of a lost tragedy by See also:

• EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides; See also:

• SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES (1837–1909)

Swinburne has utilized the legend in his Erechtheus . The See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of the opening of the chest is represented on a Greek See also:

• VASE
• VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl. vasa, of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate root is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)

vase in the See also:

• BRITISH

British Museum . The name Erichthonius is connected with XBcav (" earth ") and the See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation of him as See also:

• HALF

half-snake, like Cecrops, indicates that he was regarded as one of the See also:

• AUTOCHTHONES (Gr. drabs, and xO(:ov, earth, i.e. people sprung from earth itself; Lat. terrigenae; see also under ABORIGINES)

autochthones, the ancestors of the Athenians who sprung from the See also:

• SOIL

soil .

See See also:

• APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus iii . 14 . 15; Euripides, See also:

• ION

Ion; See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, Metam. ii . 553; See also:

• HYGINUS
• HYGINUS (surnamed GROMATICUS, from gruma, a surveyor's measuring-rod)
• HYGINUS, GAIUS JULIUS

Hyginus, Poet. astron. ii . 13; See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias i . 2 . 5 . 8; E . Ermatinger, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die attische Autochthonensage (1897); See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article by J . A . Hild in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:

• DES

des antiquites; B . See also:

• POWELL, FREDERICK YORK (1850-1904)
• POWELL, GEORGE (c. 1658-1714)
• POWELL, JOHN WESLEY (1834–1902)
• POWELL, VAVASOR (1617-1670)

Powell in Cornell Studies, xvii .

(1906), who identifies Erechtheus, Erichthonius, Poseidon and Cecrops, all denoting the sacred See also:

• SERPENT (Lat. serpens, creeping, from serpere; cf. "reptile " from repere, Gr.4 ml-eta)

serpent of Athena, whose cult she first contested, but then amalgamated with her own . The See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth of Erichthonius (as a See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

corn-spirit) is interpreted by Mannhardt as a mythical way of describing the growth of the corn, and by J . E . See also:

• HARRISON
• HARRISON, BENJAMIN
• HARRISON, FREDERIC (1831— )
• HARRISON, JOHN (1693—1776)
• HARRISON, THOMAS (16o6-166o)
• HARRISON, THOMAS ALEXANDER (1853– )
• HARRISON, WILLIAM (1534–1593)
• HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY (1773–1841)

Harrison (Myths and Monuments of See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

Ancient Athens, See also:

• XXVII

xxvii.-See also:

• XXXVI

xxxvi.) as a fiction to explain the ceremony performed by the two maidens called Arrephori . See also Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, i . 27o; and Frazer's Pausanias, ii . 169 .