Erechtheus
Britishnoun
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Boreas, the North Wind, fell in love with her, but her father, Erechtheus, and the people of Athens, too, were opposed to his suit.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
King Erechtheus, her father, rewarded with her hand a foreigner who had helped him in a war.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
His father, King Erechtheus of Athens, was usually said to be the king in whose reign Demeter came to Eleusis and agriculture began.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Of all the maidens in the land of Attica none was so beautiful as Prokris, the daughter of King Erechtheus.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
One of the paintings, that of Erechtheus driving a chariot, was painted, according to the scholiast on Aristides, I, 107, 5, behind the goddess.
From Problems in Periclean Buildings by Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker)
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