Xuthus
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Xuthi Proper-name noun: masculine nominative plural, Proper-name noun: masculine genitive singular, Proper-name noun: masculine vocative plural of Xuthus
- a son of Helen, grandson of Deucalion, and father of a branch of the Hellenic nation, T. Mam. Syll. 884.
(Ξοῦθος), a son of Hellen by the nymph Orseis, and a brother of Dorus and Aeolus. He was king of Peloponnesus, and the husband of Creusa, the daughter of Erechtheus, by whom he became the father of Achaeus and Ion (Eurip. Ion. 63, &c.; Apollod. 1.7.3). Others state that after the death of his father Hellen, Xuthus was expelled from Thessaly by his brothers, and went to Athens, where he married the daughter of Erechtheus. After the death of Erechtheus, Xuthus being chosen arbitrator, adjudged the kingdom to his eldest brother-in-law, Cecrops, in consequence of which he was expelled by the other sons of Erechtheus, and settled at Aegialos in Peloponnesus. (Paus. 7.1.2; comp. Hdt. 7.94.) [L.S] Z
(Ξοῦθος). Son of Hellen by the nymph Orseïs, and a brother of Dorus and Aeolus. He was king of Peloponnesus, and the husband of Creüsa, the daughter of Erechtheus, by whom he became the father of Achaeus and Ion (q.v.). Others state that after the death of his father, Hellen, Xuthus was expelled from Thessaly by his brothers, and went to Athens, where he married the daughter of Erechtheus. After the death of Erechtheus, Xuthus, being chosen arbitrator, adjudged the kingdom to his eldest brother-in-law, Cecrops, in consequence of which he was expelled by the other sons of Erechtheus, and settled in Aegialus, in the Peloponnesus.
- father of Ion: Hdt. 7.94, Hdt. 8.44, Paus. 1.31.3
- son of Hellen by a nymph Orseis, father of Achaeus and Ion: Apollod. 1.7.3
- son of Hellen, flees from Thessaly to Athens: Paus. 7.1.2
- father of Diomede: Apollod. 1.9.2
- husband of Creusa: Apollod. 3.15.1
- marries daughter of Erechtheus: Paus. 7.1.2
- settles in Aegialus: Paus. 7.1.2ff.