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The tribal heroes as a group: history.
The tribal heroes as a group: mythology.
The individual heroes: Aigeus.
The individual heroes: Akamas.
The individual heroes: Antiochos.
The individual heroes: Erechtheus.
→ The individual heroes: Hippothoon.
The individual heroes: Kekrops.
The individual heroes: Oineus.
The individual heroes: Pandion.
Images of the heroes: sculpture.
Images of the heroes: paintings.
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Hippothoon (tribe: Hippothontis)
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Hesiod (Hes. fr.).
Hellanicus.
Pausanias (Paus.).
Euripides (Eur. Alope).
Choirilos (Choirilos Alope).
Aristophanes (Aristoph. Birds).
Hyginus (Hyg. Fab.).
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Eleusis (in text as “Eleusinian”).
Mythology: 
Hippothoon was mentioned along with Eumolpos and Dolichos as an Eleusinian hero in Hes. fr. 227 M-W (and is shown at the mission of Triptolemos on vases). He was the son of Poseidon and Alope (Hellanicus FGrH 323a F 6; Hyg. Fab. 187; Paus. 1.39.3); his birth and mother’s subsequent death appeared in several tragedies (Eur. Alope; Choirilos Alope; cf. Aristoph. Birds 559). According to Hyg. Fab. 187, Hippothoon received Theseus into his ancestral lands after he had killed Kerkyon.
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Pausanias (Paus.).
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Eleusis.
Worship: Hippothoon was worshipped at Eleusis, according to honorary decrees dating to the
Tribal connection: Hippothoon’s priests were connected with the Eleusinian Mysteries (see, e.g. Palermo V 779 [ARV2, 496.5]), and were dictated by heredity rather than chosen from among the tribe (Agora 15, 132 and 261).
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Amy C. Smith, “Athenian Political Art from the fifth and fourth centuries: Images of Tribal (Eponymous) Heroes,” in C.W. Blackwell, ed., Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy (A. Mahoney and R. Scaife, edd., The Stoa: a consortium for electronic publication in the humanities [www.stoa.org]) edition of January 18 2003. Contact: cwb@stoa.org.
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