Xuthus

In Greek mythology, Xuthus 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. Aiclus and Cothus are sometimes described as being his children.

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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.

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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...

Hellen: Note: Hellen was not the same person as Helen of Troy, or Helenus, son of King Priam of Troy....

Orseis: :For the polychaete worm genus, see Orseis (polychaete)....