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Erysichthon

2. A son of Cecrops and Agraulos, died without issue in his father's lifetime, on his return from Delos, from whence he brought to Athens the ancient image of Eileithyia. His tomb was shewn at Prasiae. (Apollod. 3.14. 2; Paus. 1.18.5, 2.5, 31.2.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.