A Naiad nymph married to Erichthonius, the earth-born king of Athens, and by him the mother of Pandion — a single line of marriage and motherhood in the catalogue of the Attic kings.1
Apollodorus alone preserves her. When Erichthonius had expelled Amphictyon and become king of Athens, he set up the wooden image of Athena on the acropolis and instituted the festival of the Panathenaea — and he married Praxithea, a Naiad nymph. The union of the earth-born king with a daughter of the waters is given without comment, a single clause in the succession of the Attic house.2
By Erichthonius she bore a son, Pandion. That is the whole of her record: not a deed of her own, but the heir she gave the royal line. Apollodorus names her for this one act of motherhood and no more, and through Pandion her name slips into the spine of the Athenian kingship.3
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the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story