Sons of Erechtheus
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Erechthidae · sons of Erechtheus
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Ion
The native royal line of Athens which the Chorus insists must never be supplanted by an alien-born ruler.
none save noble Erechtheus’ sons!
Medea
The legendary people of Athens, descended from Erechtheus, praised by the Chorus as blessed and cultured.
Sons of Erechtheus, heroes happy from of yore, children of the blessed gods, fed on wisdom’s glorious food in a holy land ne’er pillaged by its foes, ye who move with sprightly step through a climate ever bright and clear, where, as legend tells, the Muses nine, Pieria’s holy maids, were brought to birth by Harmonia with the golden hair;