cecrops ii Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/cecrops-ii Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Cecrops & Erichthonius http://toursmaps.com/cecrops-erichthonius.html http://toursmaps.com/cecrops-erichthonius.html#respond Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:24:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245786 Cecrops was the first king to rule from Athens (his father-in-law, Actaeus, had his capital elsewhere in Attica). His torso, arms and head were human, but being earth-born his lower body was a serpent’s. Wise and virtuous, Cecrops taught his people the art of literature as well as the rites of burial and marriage, and piously worshipped Zeus. But he refused to make blood offerings, preferring to burn cakes on the altar, a tradition which Athenians preserved in one of their rituals. Cecrops’ successor was Erichthonius. He, too, was a hybrid man and snake, and his conception was unusual. Seeing

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