CLAS104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Xuthus, Procris, Eumolpus
26 Aug 2016
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Chapter #23 - theseus and myths of athens. Cecrops first king of athens he is the judge of which god athena or poseidon would be their god. Also a culture hero giving the proper rituals of burying the dead. And also brought writing into greece (similar to cadmus) It is said that cecrops sprang from the ground and has a snaky bottom. Offspring of athena the virgin godess (hephestus jizzed on her leg) the wool she wiped the jiz of with turned into erichthonius. Athena puts him into a box and gives the child to the daughters of cecrops. Athena said take care of this child but don"t look into the box. What they saw when they looked was a child with a snaky bottom. The daughters were driven mad and jump off the cliffs. King of eleusis had ally eumolpus son of poseidon as eumolpus leads the forces erechtheus kills eumolpus and poseidon pissed killed erectheus.
