Ionas

According to Greek mythology, Ionas (sometimes called also Ion) was the illegitimate child of Cre?sa, daughter of Erechtheus and wife of Xuthus. Creusa conceived Ionas with Apollo then she abandoned the child. Ionas was saved by a priestess of the Delphic Oracle.

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Ionas founded a primary tribe of Greece, the Ionians.

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Greek mythology: Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. Our surviving sources of mythology are literary reworkings of this oral tradition, supplemented by interpretations of iconic imagery, some...

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Erechtheus: Erechtheus in Greek Mythology was the name of one king of Athens and a secondary name for another....