Cranaus

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In Greek mythology, Cranaus (Κραναός) was the second King of Athens, succeeding Cecrops I.

He was autochthonous (born from the earth), like his predecessor. During his reign the flood of the Deucalion story was thought to have occurred. He married Pedias, a Spartan woman, with whom he had three daughters: Cranae, Cranaechme, and Atthis. Atthis gave her name to Attica after dying, possibly as a young girl, although in other traditions she was the mother, by Hephaestus, of Erichthonius.

Cranaus was deposed by Amphictyon son of Deucalion, who was himself later deposed by Erichthonius.

[edit] References

• Appollodorus; Gods & Heroes of the Greeks: The Library of Apollodorus, Michael Simpson (translator), The University of Massachusetts Press, (1976). ISBN 0870232053.
• Herodotus; Histories, A. D. Godley (translator), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920; ISBN 0674991338. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece. W. H. S. Jones (translator). Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. (1918). Vol. 1. Books I–II: ISBN 0674991044. (Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.)

Preceded by Cecrops I

King of Athens

Succeeded by Amphictyon