Erichthonius
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
in the texts
Ion
Earth-born ancestor of the Erechtheid line, given by Athena to the daughters of Cecrops/Agraulus to guard with serpents.
Creusa:
Yes, Erichthonius was;
Is it true Athena reared him from the ground?
Panathenaicus
A mythic Athenian king, son of Hephaestus and Earth, in the ancestral royal succession.
For Erichthonius, the son of Hephaestus and Earth, took over from Cecrops, who was without male descent, his house and kingdom;
De Spectaculis
Mythological figure, son of Minerva and Vulcan, credited with inventing the four-horse chariot; identified by Tertullian as a demon.
"Erichthonius first dared to yoke a chariot and four horses, and to stand, swift and victorious, upon the wheels.