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Pandorus

In Greek mythology, Pandorus may refer to the following personages:Pandorus, son of Zeus and Pandora, daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha. He was the brother of Melera, and possibly Graecus and Latinus. Pandorus, an Athenian prince as the son of King Erechtheus of Athens and Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia. He was the brother of Metion, Cecrops, Protogeneia, Pandora, Procris, Creusa, Oreithyia and Chthonia. Pandorus' possible siblings were Orneus, Thespius, Eupalamus, Sicyon and Merope. After leaving Attica, he founded the city of Chalcis in Euboea.

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In Greek mythology, Pandorus /ˌpænˈdɔːrəs/ (Ancient Greek: Πάνδωρος) may refer to the following personages:

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  1. Clement of Alexandria, Recognitions 10.21
  2. Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 5
  3. Ioannes Lydus, De Mensibus 1.13
  4. Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre 566 ff.
  5. Apollodorus, 3.15.1
  6. Suida, s.v. Maidens, Virgins (Παρθένοι)
  7. Pausanias, 2.25.6; Plutarch, Theseus 32.1; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Orneiai (Ὀρνειαί)
  8. Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
  9. Diodorus Siculus, 4.76.1
  10. Pausanias, 2.6.5, citing Hesiod (Ehoiai fr. 224) for Erechtheus
  11. Plutarch, Theseus 19.5
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