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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]
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 ...
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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 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]
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 .
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 ]
The names of the demes of Pandionis were Angele, Konthyle, Kydathenaion, Kytheros, Myrrhinous, Oa, Lower Paiania, Upper Paiania, Prasiai, Probalinthos, Steiria. [4] The two sections of Paiania, typically counted among the demes of Pandionis, are recorded separately on at least four of the eight prytany and bouleutic catalogues of that period.