Ion
mythological figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 20 anchored passages
Ion of Chios
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Ion
Temple servant at Delphi, secretly the son of Apollo and Creusa, raised as a foundling by the Delphic priestess; recognized (falsely, as the audience knows) as Xuthus's son.
Come, thou tender laurel-shoot, gathered from gardens divine to wait upon the glorious god, thou that sweepest clean the altar of Phoebus hard by his shrine, where holy founts, that ever gush with ceaseless flow, bedew the myrtle’s hallowed spray wherewith I cleanse the temple-floor the livelong day, so soon as the swift sun-god wings his flight on high, in my daily ministration.
That honesty which men must pray for, even against their will, custom and nature did conspire to plant in me in the sight of Phoebus.
Athens, I am told,—that glorious city of a native race,—owns no aliens;
Constitution of the Athenians
Legendary figure who settled in Attica; the Athenians were called Ionians after him and Apollo was honored as Patroös because of him.
When Ion settled among them, then for the first time they were called Ionians.
The Athenians honour Apollo as Patroös, since Ion the polemarch of the Athenians was born of Apollo and Creusa, the wife of Xuthus.
for when this man settled in Attica, as Aristotle says, the Athenians were called Ionians, and Apollo was named Patroös to them.
Stromata
Ion of Chios, poet, cited (via his Triagmoi) for the claim that Pythagoras attributed some teachings to Orpheus.
Ion of Chios, in his Triagmoi, relates that Pythagoras too referred some things to Orpheus.
Antidosis
Ancient thinker cited for a doctrine limiting the elements to not more than three.
Ion, of not more than three;