Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Xuthus.
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Ion
Euripides
Euripides' Delphi play — Xuthus mistakes temple-servant Ion for his son, while Creusa's recognition rewrites Athens' Ionian ancestry.
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Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Xuthus son of Hellen, husband of Creusa, father (or stepfather) of Ion — the Hellene bridge into the Athenian-Ionian line.
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Xuthus
Son of Hellen who marries into Athens — Euripides' foil in the recognition plot that founds the Ionians.