A son of Erechtheus, king of Athens, and Praxithea, ranked by Apollodorus among the Erechtheid brothers Cecrops and Metion — a name preserved in the Athenian line with no deeds of his own recorded.1
Pandorus belongs to the catalogue of the Erechtheids. Apollodorus records that Erechtheus married Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus by Diogenia, daughter of Cephisus, and had by her three sons, named in order Cecrops, Pandorus, and Metion. So Pandorus stands second among the male heirs of the Athenian house.2
The same passage sets him beside his four sisters and the marriages that bound the house to its neighbours: Procris, Creusa, Chthonia, and Orithyia, who was carried off by Boreas. Chthonia was wedded to Butes, Creusa to Xuthus, and Procris to Cephalus, son of Deion. Among these alliances Pandorus appears plainly as one of the brothers, his name attested but his own story untold.3
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