Erichthonius (Erecthonius) An early
king of Athens. Son of Athena (or Gaia) and
Hephaestus. Classical assets are Apollodorus’s
Library (three.14.6), Euripides’ Ion (20–24,
260–274), Homer’s Iliad (2.546f), Ovid’s
Metamorphoses (2.552–565), Pausanias’s
Description of Greece (1.2.6, 1.18.2), and Virgil’s
Georgics (3.113–114). Erichthonius is a few-
times pressured with his descendant Erechtheus,
both of whom are associated with early Attic
records and cult practices on the Acropolis.
Details of Erichthonius’s parentage and delivery
vary. In Homer’s Iliad, Erichthonius, whose
lower half of became serpent-formed, became born of
Earth (Gaia) and nurtured through Athena. In Ovid’s
Metamorphoses, Erichthonius has no mother.
In different assets, Hephaestus tried to r
