Founding Athens I: Crea Ng History
MDS2/3 CLM Classical Mythology Founding Athens I: Creang History Gillian Shepherd Image Source Page: hCp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Acropolis-Athens34.jpg The Acropolis, Athens • Autochthony/authochthonos (auto = self, chthonos = earth) • Founders who travel (both foreign and Greek e.g. Pelops, Kadmos, Ion) • Historical foundaons (e.g. Baos of Cyrene cf. Herodotus 4. 148 ff) NB: ae=ology Early Kings of Athens Kekrops (offspring Erysichthon, Aglauros, Herse, Pandrosos) {Kranaos} (3 daughters, including Ahis) {Amphictyon} Erichthonios (Erechtheus) Pandion Erechtheus Image Source Page: hCp://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T42.1.html Kekrops (Ac red-figure kylix, Kodros Painter, c. 440 BC) Image Source Page: hCp://www.sandrashaw.com/AH1L18.htm Parthenon, reconstruc=on of pediments (top = west, boCom = east) NB Thriasian plain (includes Eleusis) Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens Photo © Gillian Shepherd Then there is the building called the Erechtheion; in front of the entrance is an altar of Zeus the highest, where they sacrifice nothing that breathes, but they put sweet cakes there and the rite allows not even the use of wine. As you go in there are altars to Poseidon, where they sacrifice to Erechtheus as well, according to an oracle… [there is] sea water inside a well… the extraordinary thing about this well is that when the wind blows south a sound of waves comes from it. There is the mark of a trident in the rock. They say that these were Poseidon’s arguments in the quarrel over the country Pausanias 1.26.5 Image Source Page: hCp://greecetravel.com/photos/athens/temple-of-olympian-zeus/temple-of-zeus01_jpg_view.htm Temple of Olympian Zeus (2nd cent AD) The ground here has split open about two feet; they say this is where the water ran away aer Deukalion’s flood (Pausanias 1.18.7) (NB Deukalion’s wife was called Pyrrha; Ahis/Aca) Image Source Page: hCp://www.class.uh.edu/mcl/classics/thes_txts.im.html Ac red-figure kylix, Kodros Painter, c.