Editing Cecrops II (section)

== Family ==
Cecrops was the son of [[Pandion I]], king of [[Athens]]<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+9.33.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=Cecrops 9.33.1]</ref><ref>Cecrops was identified as the brother of Erechtheus and thus, the son of Pandion I as cited in [[Jerome]], ''[[Chronicon (Jerome)|Chronicon]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/530#B1347 B1347] & Eusebius, ''Chronography'' [https://topostext.org/work/531#66 66]</ref> and possibly the [[naiad]] [[Zeuxippe]], and thus brother to [[Erechtheus]], [[Butes]], [[Procne]], [[Philomela]] and [[Teuthras (mythology)|Teuthras]].<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#Th310.9 Thespeia]''</ref> In some accounts, his parents were identified to be King Erechtheus and the naiad [[Praxithea]] and thus he was brother to [[Pandorus]], [[Metion]],<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.15.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Cecrops 3.15.1]</ref> [[Protogeneia]], [[Pandora (Greek myth)|Pandora]], [[Procris]], [[Creusa (daughter of Erechtheus)|Creusa]], [[Orithyia (Athenian)|Orithyia]] and [[Chthonia]].<ref>[[Suda|Suida]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/240#pi.668 Maidens, Virgins]''</ref> His other possible siblings were [[Orneus]],<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.25.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=orneus 2.25.6]; [[Plutarch]], ''Theseus'' 32.1; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#O496.5 Orneiai]''</ref> [[Thespius]],<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#29.2 4.29.2]</ref> [[Eupalamus]],<ref name=":0">Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#76.1 4.76.1]</ref> [[Sicyon (mythology)|Sicyon]]<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.6.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=Sicyon 2.6.5], citing [[Hesiod]] (''[[Catalogue of Women|Ehoiai]]'' fr. 224) for [[Erechtheus]]</ref> and [[Merope (Greek myth)|Merope]].<ref>Plutarch, ''Theseus'' 19.5</ref>

Cecrops married [[Metiadusa]], daughter of Eupalamus (his brother<ref name=":0" /> or a son of Metion<ref name=":1">Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.15.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Cecrops 3.15.5]</ref>), by whom he became the father of his heir, [[Pandion II]].<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.15.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Cecrops 3.15.1]; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.5.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 1.5.3]</ref>