Pandionidae

A patronymic of Pandion, i.e. the sons of Pandion, who, after their father's death, returned from Megara to Athens, and expelled the Metionidae. Aegeus, the eldest among them, obtained the supremacy, Lycus the eastern coast of Attica, Nisus Megaris, and Pallas the southern coast.

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References

Sources

  • Dionysius Periegetes, 1024.
  • Eustathius on Homer, p. 285.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 5.4.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 15.6.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Strabo. Geography ix, p. 392.

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