Erichthonius of Athens
Erichthonios (Greek Ἐριχθόνιος ), also Erechtheus I., is a figure from Greek mythology.
The son of Hephaestus and Gaia was king of Attica. After the Libraries of Apollodorus was not Gaia, but Atthis, the daughter of Kranaos, his mother. Homer calls him in the Iliad Erechtheus, which is why he is referred to I. (as opposed to Erechtheus ) as Erechtheus. Herodotus calls him the earth-born ( son of Gaia) Erechtheus. Ovid calls him prolem sine matre creatam, ie " begotten without a mother offspring ".
Athena put entrusted to her by Gaia Erichthonius in a box and handed him the Pandrosos, a daughter of Cecrops I, and their sisters Herse and Aglauros, with the bid, the box can not be opened, yes. The Sisters of Pandrosos but they opened out of curiosity and found the child in the form of a serpent (or snake with legs or even snakes, ringed ), whereupon Athena took care of itself.
Pre- Grown gained Erichthonius the king power over Athens after he had driven the Amphictyon. He married the nymph Pasithea ( Praxithea ) and begat Pandion.
Erichthonios to the Panathenaic Games at Athens decorated and because he had no legs to run because of his snake lower body, the wheel invented ( for him pulling wagons). He was killed by Poseidon and was treated as a constellation Auriga at the sky. After his death he was in the sanctuary of Athena on the Acropolis, his final resting place, which was called then Erechtheion.
He was succeeded by his son Pandion.