Creusa

A daughter of Erichthonius and Praxithea, was married to Xuthus, by whom she became the mother of Achaeus and Ion. She is also said to have been beloved by Apollo,1 and Ion is called her son by Apollo, as in the Ion of Euripides.

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 28.4.

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece vii, 1.1.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 7.3; iii, 15.1.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.