< Botton, son of Daedalus >

1 Origin

Botton was born in Crete in 1260 BC.

2 Family

Botton's father was Daedalus.

3 Others

In 1235 BC, Daedalus' son Iapyx led a group of immigrants from Crete to the southeastern part of the Italian peninsula.

Botton, who was among them, led a new group of immigrants overland to Macedonia.

The settlement of Botton was west of the Axius River and north of the Haliacmon River.

A little north of what would later become Pella was Europus, founded 75 years earlier by Europus, son of Macedon, son of Aeolus, and Oreithyia, daughter of Cecrops.

Botton's group included descendants of the Athenians who had been sent from Athens to Crete in the time of Aegeus.

Also among the inhabitants of Europus were the descendants of those who migrated from Athens following the marriage of Oreithyia.

Botton was the son of Daedalus, the daughter of Merope (or Alcippe), the daughter of Pandion, the son of Cecrops, the father of Europus' mother Oreithyia.

In other words, Europus was the cousin of Botton's grandmother.

The people traveling with Botton were likely surprised to encounter inhabitants in a foreign land who could speak their language.