Editing Cecrops I (section)

== Multiple Cecrops ==
The name of Cecrops occurs also in other parts of Greece, especially where there existed a town named Athenae, such as in [[Boeotia]], where he is said to have founded the ancient towns of Athenae and [[Eleusis]] on the [[Triton River]], and where he had a [[heroön]] at [[Haliartus]]. Tradition there called him a son of [[Pandion I|Pandion]].<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+9.33.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Cecrops 9.33.1]; Strabo, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+9.2.18&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Cecrops 9.2.18 p. 407]</ref> In [[Euboea]], which also had a town named Athenae, Cecrops was called a son of Erechtheus and [[Praxithea]], and a grandson of Pandion.<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.15.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Cecrops 3.15.1]; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.5.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Cecrops 1.5.3]</ref> From these traditions it appears, that Cecrops must be regarded as a hero of the Pelasgian race; and Müller remarks that the different mythical personages of this name connected with the towns in Boeotia and Euboea are only multiplications of the one original hero, whose name and story were transplanted from Attica to other places. The later Greek writers describe Cecrops as having immigrated into Greece with a band of colonists from [[Sais, Egypt|Sais]] in [[Egypt]].<ref>Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/1A*.html#29.1 1.29.1]; Scholia ad Aristophanes, ''Plutus'' 773</ref> But this account is not only rejected by some of the ancients themselves and modern critics.<ref>Müller, ''Orchom''. p. 123; Thirlwall, ''Greece'' i. p. 66</ref><ref>[[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith, William]]; ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'', London (1873). [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DC%3Aentry+group%3D15%3Aentry%3Dcecrops-bio-1 "Cecrops"]  ''{{PD-notice}}''</ref>