Ion
mythological figure · 5 works · 7 mentions · 21 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.
Creusa:
Creusa:
Creusa:
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.
for when this man settled in Attica, as Aristotle says, the Athenians were called Ionians, and Apollo was named Patroös to them.
The Athenians honour Apollo as Patroös, since Ion the polemarch of the Athenians was born of Apollo and Creusa, the wife of Xuthus.
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;
Euthydemus
Mythical eponymous ancestor of the Ionian Greeks, mentioned by Socrates to explain why Ionians honor an ancestral Apollo.
they have an ancestral Apollo, because of Ion’s parentage.