< Cephisus, father of Diogenia >

1 Origin

Cephisus was born in Phoenicia in 1455 BC.

2 Family

Cephisus had two sons, Elieus and Colonus. [Plut.QuestGr.40]

Cephisus had a daughter, Diogenia. [Apo.3.15.1]

3 Others

For the following reasons, Cephisus is believed to have been the leader of the Gephyraeans who migrated from Phoenicia to Boeotia and settled around Tanagra.

1) The hero's mausoleum of Eunostus, son of Cephisus' son Elieus, was in Tanagra. [Plut.QuestGr.40]

2) Praxithea, the daughter of Cephisus' daughter Diogenia, was married to Erechtheus, the sixth king of Athens. [Apo.3.15.1]

3) Cephisus was a contemporary of Pandion, the fifth king of Athens.

Pandion ruled Athens around the time Cadmus invaded Boeotia.

In 1415 BC, the Athenians, attacked by Eumolpus, fled to the vicinity of Tanagra and were received by the Gephyraeans. [Strabo.7.7.1, Suda.delta.1395]

It was Cephisus who received the Athenians at that time, and it is assumed that this led to the marriage of Cephisus' granddaughter Praxithea to Erechtheus.