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But Poseidon having destroyed Erechtheus1 and his house, Cecrops, the eldest of the
sons of Erechtheus, succeeded to the throne.2
He married Metiadusa, daughter of Eupalamus, and begat Pandion. This Pandion, reigning
after Cecrops, was expelled by the sons of Metion in a sedition, and going to
Pylas at Megara married his daughter
Pylia.3 And at a
later time he was even appointed king of the city; for Pylas slew his father's brother
Bias and gave the kingdom to Pandion, while he himself repaired to Peloponnese with a body of people and founded the city of
Pylus.4
While Pandion was at Megara, he had sons born
to him, to wit, Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus. But some say that Aegeus was a son of
Scyrius, but was passed off by Pandion as his own.5
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1 According to Hyginus, Fab. 46, Zeus killed Erechtheus with a thunderbolt at the request of Poseidon, who was enraged at the Athenians for killing his son Eumolpus.
2 Compare Paus. 1.5.3; Paus. 7.1.2.
3 Compare Paus. 1.5.3, who tells us that the tomb of Pandion was in the land of Megara, on a bluff called the bluff of Diver-bird Athena.
4 Compare Paus. 1.39.4; Paus. 4.36.1; Paus. 6.22.5, who variously names this Megarian king Pylas, Pylus, and Pylon.
5 Compare Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 494, who may have copied Apollodorus. The sons of Pallas, the brother of Aegeus, alleged that Aegeus was not of the stock of the Erechtheids, since he was only an adopted son of Pandion. See Plut. Thes. 13.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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