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Pandion II was the eighth king of Athens in the traditional line of succession as given by the third century BC Parian Chronicle, the chronographer Castor of Rhodes (probably from the late third-century Eratosthenes) and the Bibliotheca. [4]
Aegeus was the son of Pandion II, king of Athens [5] and Pylia, daughter of King Pylas of Megara [6] and thus, brother to Pallas, Nysus, Lykos and the wife of Sciron. [7] But, in some accounts, he was regarded as the son of Scyrius or Phemius and was not of the stock of the Erechtheids, since he was only an adopted son of Pandion. [8]
Pandion was probably associated in some way with the ancient Athenian festival Pandia, and it is possible that the festival derived its name from Pandion. However, the festival was probably held in honor of Zeus , [ 9 ] and some scholars think it is more likely that the hero derived his name from the festival as its legendary founder. [ 10 ]
Pandion II, a legendary king of Athens, father of the brothers Aegeus, Pallas, Nisos and Lycus. Pandion (hero), the eponymous hero of the Attic tribe Pandionis, usually assumed to be one of the legendary Athenian kings Pandion I or Pandion II. Pandion son of Phineus in Greek mythology
Pandion I, a legendary king of Athens, father of the sisters Procne and Philomela. [1] Pandion II, a legendary king of Athens, father of the brothers Aegeus, Pallas, Nisos and Lycus. [2] Pandion (hero), the eponymous hero of the Attic tribe Pandionis, usually assumed to be one of the legendary Athenian kings Pandion I or Pandion II. [3]
Upon the death of Pandion, Lycus and his brothers took control of Athens from Metion who had seized the throne from Pandion. They divided the government in four but Aegeas became king. [ 3 ] Pausanias reports that after getting driven out of Athens by his brother Aegeus, Lycus came to Aphareus and introduced him and his family to the rites of ...
Nisos was one of the four sons of Pandion II, King of Athens, and Pylia, daughter of King Pylas of Megara. He was the brother of Aegeas, Pallas, Lykos [1] and the wife of Sciron. [2] According to Hyginus, Nisus's father was the god Ares [3] while other authors affirmed that he was the offspring of Deion. [4]
The early Athenian tradition, followed by the 3rd century BC Parian Chronicle, made Cecrops, a mythical half-man half-serpent, the first king of Athens. [5] The dates for the following kings were conjectured centuries later, by historians of the Hellenistic era who tried to backdate events by cross-referencing earlier sources such as the Parian Chronicle.