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    The Atlas·Figures

    Cecrops

    mythological figure · 10 works · 12 mentions · 16 anchored passages

    Cecropidae · the two-natured Cecrops

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Cecrops, the legendary earth-born founder-king of Athens, from whom Attic chronology is dated; a second Cecrops is also mentioned later.

    Younger than these by forty generations are the Attic matters, those from Cecrops, the two-natured and earth-born, as Tatian says word for word;
    book 1
    Under Acrisius were the crossing of Pelops from Phrygia, and the arrival of Ion at Athens, and the second Cecrops, and the deeds of Perseus and of Dionysus, and Orpheus and Musaeus.
    book 1
    And there are those who reckon together, from Cecrops to Alexander the Macedonian, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight years;
    book 1

    IonClassical · Greek

    Legendary early king of Athens whose daughters guarded the infant Erichthonius and whose sons allied with Xuthus against Chalcodon.

    This did he sack, making common cause with Cecrops’ sons.
    ion
    Yes, to the daughters of Cecrops, to keep him safe unseen.
    ion
    Do thou, Creusa, take this stripling and to Cecrops’ land set forth;
    ion

    The Funeral SpeechClassical · Greek

    Legendary founder of the Cecropidae, reputed to have been part dragon and part human, understanding like a man and strength like a dragon.

    The Cecropidae were well aware that their founder was reputed to have been part dragon, part human, for no other reason than this, that in understanding he was like a man, in strength like a dragon.
    the funeral speech

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Legendary autochthonous first king of Athens, invoked in a comparison about lineage.

    The man of servile birth is unsettled by Cecrops;
    oration 66

    PhoenissaeClassical · Greek

    Legendary first king of Athens; his 'sons' (the Athenians) are said to have won the war Teiresias reports.

    I gave the victory to Cecrops’ sons, and I received this golden crown, as you see, the first-fruits of the enemy’s spoils.
    phoenissae

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    A legendary early king of Athens after whom the Athenians were once named Cecropidae; his daughter Aglaurus has a precinct on the acropolis.

    Here some men climbed up, near the sacred precinct of Cecrops ' daughter Aglaurus, although the place was a sheer cliff.
    chapter 8
    When Cecrops was their king they were called Cecropidae, and when Erechtheus succeeded to the rule, they changed their name and became Athenians.
    chapter 8

    PanathenaicusClassical · Greek

    A mythic Athenian king whose house and kingdom pass to Erichthonius.

    For Erichthonius, the son of Hephaestus and Earth, took over from Cecrops, who was without male descent, his house and kingdom;
    panathenaicus

    MeditationsImperial · Greek

    Legendary first king of Athens, referenced via a poetic quotation about his city.

    The poet says, "Dear city of Cecrops";
    book four

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    Legendary earliest king of Athens, named as the starting point of the period before Theseus's unification of Attica.

    For under Cecrops, and the first kings, down to the reign of Theseus, the population of Athens had always inhabited independent cities, with their own guild-halls and magistrates;
    chapter 2

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    Legendary early king of Athens, referenced through the tradition of a judgment of the gods delivered in his court, cited as part of the ancestral legends of Athenian virtue.

    Do you refer to the judgment of the gods, which Cecrops delivered in his court because of his virtue?
    chapter 3