In Greek mythology, Xuthus (Classical Greek Ξοῦθος) 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. The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and their own cult and ritual practices. ... Note: Hellen was not the same person as Helen of Troy, or Helenus, son of King Priam of Troy. ... In Greek mythology, Orseis, (Greek: ) was the water-nymph (Naiad) of a spring in Thessalia, Greece, and the mythical ancestor of the Greeks. ... In Greek mythology, four people had the name Creusa. ... According to Greek mythology, Ionas (sometimes called also Ion) was the illegitimate child of Creüsa, daughter of Erechtheus and wife of Xuthus. ... In Greek mythology and history, Achaeus is the name of several individuals. ... As written in Homers The Iliad, Deidamia was the mistress of Achilles, taken up after the seizure of Briseis by King Agamemnon. ...

According to Hesiod's (probably) "Eoiae" (Greek : Ηοίαι) or "Catalogue of Women"^[1] 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, Magnetas and Macedon who together with Hellen's three sons Dorus, Xuthus (with his sons Ion and Achaeus) and Aeolos, comprised the set of progenitors of the ancient tribes that formed the Greek/Hellenic nation. Bust, traditionally thought to be Seneca, now identified by some as Hesiod. ... The Catalogue of Women (Greek: γυναικῶν κατάλογος, gynaikon katalogos) is an epic of ancient Greek literature. ... The Creation of Pandora from the interior of a drinking cup, c. ... Note: Hellen was not the same person as Helen of Troy, or Helenus, son of King Priam of Troy. ... In Greek mythology, Deucalion, or Deukálion (new-wine sailor) was the son of Prometheus and Clymene or Celaeno. ... Deucalion and Pyrrha throwing rocks that become babies. ... Graecus (or Græcus in Greek ) was, according to Hesiods (probably) Eoiae (Greek : Ηοίαι) or Catalogue of Women[1] on the origin of the Greeks, the son of Pandora and Zeus and brother of Magnetas and Macedon. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Ancient Macedonians were the inhabitants of Macedon in ancient times. ... Note: Hellen was not the same person as Helen of Troy, or Helenus, son of King Priam of Troy. ... In Greek mythology, Dorus is the name of several individuals: Dorus was a son of Hellen and founder of the Dorian nation. ... “Multivalent” redirects here. ... In Greek mythology and history, Achaeus is the name of several individuals. ... Aeolus (or Aiolos, Αἴολος) in Greek Mythology was the Keeper of the Winds. ... Hellenic may refer to: the Hellenic Republic (the modern Greek state) the Hellenes, itself a term for either ancient or modern Greeks anything related to Greece in general or Ancient Greece in particular. ...

Aiclus and Cothus are sometimes described as being his children.

Euripides' 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' wife Creusa by Apollo. Xuthus and Cruesa 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' brother. A statue of Euripides Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (c. ... Ion is an ancient Greek play by Euripides, thought to be wrtten between 414 and 412 BC. It follows the orphan Ion in the discovery of his origins. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... In Greek mythology, Cyane was a nymph who tried to prevent Hades from abducting Persephone. ... Lycian Apollo, early Imperial Roman copy of a fourth century Greek original (Louvre Museum) In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (Ancient Greek , Apóllōn; or , Apellōn), the ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), was the archer-god of medicine and healing, light, truth, archery and also a... Michelangelos rendering of the Delphic Sibyl The Delphic Sibyl was a legendary figure who made prophecies in the sacred precinct of Apollo at Delphi, located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. ... Delphi (Greek Δελφοί — Delphee) is an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in a valley of Phocis. ... In Greek mythology, Dorus is the name of several individuals: Dorus was a son of Hellen and founder of the Dorian nation. ...

Notes

1. ^ Hesiod (probably), "Eoiae" (Greek : Ηοίαι) or "Catalogue of Women", c.650 BC.

Bust, traditionally thought to be Seneca, now identified by some as Hesiod. ... The Catalogue of Women (Greek: γυναικῶν κατάλογος, gynaikon katalogos) is an epic of ancient Greek literature. ...

References

• Hesiod (probably), "Eoiae" (Greek : Ηοίαι) or "Catalogue of Women", c.650 BC.
• Hamilton, Edith (1942). Mythology. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-34114-2.