Xuthus Traditional Geocache
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Xuthus was a son of Hellen and Orseis and
founder (through his sons) of the Achaean and Ionian nations. He had
two sons by Creusa: Ion and Achaeus and a daughter named Diomede.
According to Hesiod's (probably) "Eoiae" or "Catalogue of Women" on
the origin of the Greeks, Pandora (named after her grandmother
Pandora, sister of Hellen and daughter of Deukalion and Pyrrha)
together with Zeus had three sons: Graecus, Magnes and Makednos who
together with Hellen's three sons Dorus, Xuthus (with his sons Ion and
Achaeus) and Aeolus, comprised the set of progenitors of the ancient
tribes that formed the Greek nation.
Aiclus and Cothus are sometimes described as being his children.
Euripides's play, Ion, provides an unusual alternate version,
according to which Xuthus is son of Aeolus and Cyane and Ion has in
fact been begotten on Xuthus's wife Creusa by Apollo. Xuthus and
Creusa visited the Oracle at Delphi to ask the god if they could hope
for a child. Xuthus will later father Dorus with Creusa, though Dorus
is normally presented as Xuthus's brother.
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