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Encyclopedia Britannica



CECROPS (Ke,cpo,ti)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 594 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CECROPS (Ke,cpo,ti) , traditionally the first king of Attica, and the founder of its political life (Pausanias ix. 33). He was said to have divided the inhabitants into twelve communities, to have instituted the laws of
marriage
  and property, and a new form of
worship
 . The introduction of bloodless sacrifice, the burial of the dead, and the invention of writing were also attributed to him. He is said to have acted as umpire during the dispute of Poseidon and
Athena
  for the possession of Attica. He decided in favour of the goddess,who planted the firstolivetree, which he adjudged to be more useful than the horse (or water) which Poseidon caused to
spring
  forth from the
Acropolis
 
rock
  with a blow of his trident (Herodotus viii. 55; Apollodorus 14). As one of the autochthones of Attica, Cecrops is represented as human in the upper part of his
body
 , while the lower part is
shaped like a
dragon
  (hence he is sometimes called blab or geminus, Diod. Sic. i. 28; Ovid, Metam. ii. 555) Miss J. E. Harrison (in Classical
Review
 , January 1895) endeavours to show that Cecrops is the husband of Athene, identical with the snake-like Zeus
Soter
  or Sosipolis, and the father of Erechtheus-Erichthonius.


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