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  AUTOCHTHONOUS, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Amphictyon expelled Cranaus from the throne of Athens, became king of Attica and was in turn expelled by Erichthonius 2.
Cranaus is the king of Athens who was dethroned by Amphictyon [see above] and after fleeing died and was buried in Lamptrae in Attica.
Cranaus was by Pedias, father of Cranae 1, Cranaechme and Atthis [Apd.3.14.5-6; Pau.1.2.6, 1.31.3].
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 Cranaus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
In Greek mythology, Cranaus was the second King of Athens, succeeding Cecrops I. He was autochthonous (born from the earth), like his predecessor.
Atthis gave her name to Attica after dying, possibly as a young girl, although in other traditions she was the mother, by Hephaestus, of Erichthonius.
Cranaus was deposed by Amphictyon son of Deucalion, who was himself later deposed by Erichthonius.
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He was besides childless, so Cranaus, another "son of the soil" [see ="AUTOCHTHONOUSAUTOCHTHONOUS] but in reality the most powerful of the Athenians, came to the throne and it was during his reign that ="FloodThe Flood in the age of ="Deucalion1Deucalion 1 took place.
Cranaus was dethroned by Amphictyon, something for a son-in-law to do, for Amphictyon was Atthis' husband.
Cranaus fled from Athens to Lamptrae, another location in Attica, and there he died and was buried.
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 Cranaus: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
...Cranaus Cranaus In Greek mythology, Cranaus was the second King of Athens,...
Athena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens, in a...
In Greek mythology, Cranaus was the second King of Athens, succeeding Cecrops.
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 Amazon.com: Cranaus: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Cranaus, King of the Athenians, is said to have been the...
Attica its name, was one of the three daughters of Cranaus, the autochthonous king of Athens reigning at the time of...
Cranaus succeeded to Cecrops, king of the Athenians; his daughter Atthis...
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 Dictionary: Clytomedes to Damarmenus, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Daughter of King Cranaus of Athens and Pedias [Apd.3.14.5].
When King Cecrops 1 of Athens died, Cranaus came to the throne.
Cranaus married Pedias, a Lacedaemonian daughter of Mynes 1, and had children by her: Cranae 1, Cranaechme, and Atthis, after whom the country was called Attica [Apd.3.14.5-6; Pau.1.2.6, 1.31.3].
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 Mythical Athens presented in Culture section
And he was childless, so Cranaus, another “son of the soil” but in reality the most powerful of the Athenians, came to the throne, and it was during his reign that “The Flood” in the age of Deucalion took place.
Cranaus married the Lacedaemonian girl Pedias, who gave birth to Cranae, Cranaechme and Atthis.
When Atthis died in her youth, Cranaus called the country Atthis after her.
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 Qwika - similar:King_of_Athens
Amphictyon, in Greek mythology, was the second son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, although there was also a tradition that he was autochthonous (born from the earth).
Amphictyon was king of Thermopylae and married a daughter of Cranaus of Athens.
It was the birthplace of democracy and it became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium BC.
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 Cranaus
They say that Cranaus had daughters, and among them Atthis; and from her they call the country Attica, which before was named Actaea.
And Amphictyon, rising up against Cranaus, although he had his daughter to wife, deposed him from power.
They say that fleeing with his supporters to the parish of Lamptrae he died and was buried there, and at the present day there is a monument to Cranaus at Lamptrae.
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 Athens
He was credited for sailing to Delos, from where he brought back to Athens a statue of Ilithyia, godess of child-birth, but died on the trip back.
Cranaus, who, succeeded Cecrops after his son Erysichthon had died, was said to be too a "son of the soil".
Cranaus had wed one of his daughters to Amphictyon, a son of Deucalion, who drove him out of power to take his place as king, only to be himself expelled ten years later by Erichthonius.
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 The Cataclysm of Deucalion
Their first-born son, Greek, became the leader of the Greeks.
Amphyction was said to have governed Athens after Cranaus.
Deucalion himself is said to have become the king of Phthias a region in Thessaly.
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 Thes_Txts.im.html
Eri-chthoni-us is one of several mythic early kings of Athens (the list of these kings is confusing).
Some say that this Erichthonius was a son of Hephaestus and Atthis, daughter of Cranaus, and some that he was a son of Hephaestus and Athena, as follows: Athena came to Hephaestus, desirous of fashioning arms.
But he, being forsaken by Aphrodite, fell in love with Athena, and began to pursue her; but she fled.
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 Arignote   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
This is an ancient ghost tale related by the second century writer Lucian.
The story, as he told it, concerned a certain house in Corinth, in the Cranaus quarter, that no one would inhabit because it was haunted by a spectre.
A man by the name of Aragonite, well versed in the lore of Egyptian magical books, shut himself in the house to pass the night.
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 31 - Pausanias
But it is reported that Acarus first reigned in that place which is now called Attica.
But they report that Cranaus had other daughters besides Atthi, from which last, the region which was formerly called Actæa was denominated Attica.
Amphictyon, however, forcibly expelled Cranaus from the kingdom, though at the same time he had married his daughter.
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 Ancient History Sourcebook: Pausanias: Description of Greece, Book I: Attica
There is at Prasiae a monument to Erysichthon, who died on the voyage home from Delos, after the sacred mission thither.
[1.31.3] How Amphictyon banished Cranaus, his kinsman by marriage and king of Athens, I have already related.
At Potami in Attica is also the grave of Ion the son of Xuthus--for he too dwelt among the Athenians and was their commander-in-chief in the war with Eleusis.[1.31.4] Such is the legend.
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 Women in Athens, Cradle of Democracy
But when the two strove for possession of the country, Zeus parted [p.
81] them and appointed arbiters, not, as some have affirmed, Cecrops and Cranaus, nor yet Erysichthon, but the twelve gods.
And in accordance with their verdict the country was adjudged to Athena, because Cecrops bore witness that she had been the first to plant the olive.
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 House of Athens
Cecrops and Agraulus had three daughters named Pandrosus, Agraulus II and Herse.
Cecrops also had a son named Erysichthon, but he probably outlived his son, because Cranaüs (Cranaus) succeeded Cecrops.
Some even say that Cecrops was the founder of the city, Athens, but this honour was usually given to his successor.
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 Justin's Epitome of Trogus Pompeius' History of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Before Deucalion's time, they had a king named Cecrops, whom, as all antiquity is full of fables, they represented tc have been of both sexes, because he was the first to join male and female in marriage.
To him succeeded Cranaus, whose daughter Atthis gave name to the country.
After him reigned Amphictyon, who first consecrated the city to Minerva, and gave it the name of Athens.
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 LYSISTRATA by Aristophanes, Part 08
With what end in view have they seized the
citadel of Cranaus, the sacred shrine that is raised upon the
LEADER OF CHORUS OF OLD MEN (to the MAGISTRATE)
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