Eldest daughter of Cecrops, to whom Athena entrusted the chest holding the serpent-girdled infant Erichthonius — the one sister who kept the goddess's command while Aglauros and, in some tellings, Herse opened the forbidden basket.1
When Athena reared Erichthonius unknown to the other gods, she hid him in a chest and gave it to Pandrosus, forbidding her to open it. Pandrosus obeyed; her sisters Aglauros and Herse, driven by curiosity, looked inside and beheld a serpent coiled about the babe — and in some accounts went mad and flung themselves from the acropolis.2
Ovid sets the three sisters on the Acropolis between Pandrosos on the right and Aglauros on the left, with Herse between — all devoted to Minerva's praise when Mercury came seeking the youngest. Pandrosos alone kept the trust that Aglauros betrayed by opening Erichthonius' basket.3
The `-cecrops` id marks this Pandrosos as daughter of the earth-born king, not to be merged with any later namesake in the Athenian king-list.4
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