Wife of Pandion, king of Athens, and his mother's sister — she was sister of Praxithea, the Naiad whom Erichthonius married — by whom she bore the daughters Procne and Philomela and the twin sons Erechtheus and Butes.1
Apollodorus alone names her. Erichthonius, king of Athens, married Praxithea, a Naiad nymph, and by her had a son, Pandion; and when Pandion in turn came to the throne he married Zeuxippe, his own mother's sister — and so the wife of one king's son was the sister of another king's wife, and Pandion wedded his own aunt.2
From Zeuxippe sprang the next generation of the Athenian line. She bore Pandion two daughters, Procne and Philomela, and twin sons, Erechtheus and Butes. When war broke out with Labdacus over a question of boundaries, Pandion called in Tereus, son of Ares, from Thrace, and afterwards gave him Procne in marriage — the match through which Zeuxippe's daughters were carried into the house's blackest crime. At Pandion's death his sons divided the inheritance, Erechtheus taking the kingdom and Butes the priesthood of Athena and Poseidon Erechtheus.3
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