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.
And she without her father’s knowledge—for such was the god’s good pleasure,— bore the burden in her womb unto the end, and when her time came, she brought forth a child in the house and carried him away to the selfsame cave wherein the god declared his love to her, and she cradled him in the hollow of a rounded ark and cast him forth to die, observant of the custom of her ancestors and of earth-b …
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.