In the genealogical and chronographic tradition preserved in sources such as king-lists and mythographic summaries, Pandion II is presented as the son and heir of King Cecrops II and Metiadusa (daughter of Eupalamus). According to those accounts he was driven into exile from Athens when the sons of his uncle Metion usurped power; he fled to Megara, where he married Pylia, daughter of King Pylas, and was established as king of Megara. On his death Nisos (Nisus), one of his sons, succeeded him in Megara while other sons returned to Athens, expelled the usurpers, and installed Aegeus as king there. Later compilers and mythographers sometimes distinguish this Pandion from an earlier Pandion (Pandion I), and some traditions vary over which deeds and descendants belong to which Pandion.
Ancient sources and the supplied summaries do not provide a physical or iconographic description of Pandion II. He is treated as a legendary human king and eponymous ancestral figure rather than a depicted supernatural being. His commemoration as an eponym is reflected in association with the Attic tribe Pandionis and a reported hero-shrine at a Megarian landmark (the Bluff of Athene the Diver-bird).
No supernatural powers or magical abilities are recorded for Pandion II in the cited materials. His role in the tradition is political and genealogical: dynastic progenitor and eponym (father of Aegeus, Pallas, Nisos, Lycus and a daughter who married Sciron), exiled claimant turned Megarian king, and ancestor-hero commemorated by local cult. Variant traditions attribute different descendants or deeds to either Pandion II or the similarly named Pandion I.
Cecrops II
Cecrops II (Ancient Greek: Κέκροψ) is a legendary or semi-legendary seventh king of Athens in Greek mytho-historical traditions. Presented as a human dynastic ruler rather than a supernatural being, he functions primarily as a node in king-lists and chronologies that organize Athenian mythic history.
Aegeus
Aegeus is a mytho-historical king of Athens in Greek tradition, an eponymous ancestor who links Athenian dynastic identity to wider heroic and divine narratives. He is best known as the father (in most traditions) of Theseus, a seeker of an heir who consults oracles, introduces at least one civic cult, and whose death provides an aetiology for the name of the Aegean Sea.
Pallas
Pallas is a name applied to multiple distinct figures in Greek myth (several mortal, semi-divine, and Titan personages) and functions as an epithet of the goddess Athena; in later usage the name is also applied to non-mythic objects such as the asteroid 2 Pallas and a genus name in biology. The sources do not treat Pallas as a single unified supernatural species but as a polyvalent label across genealogies and later nomenclature.
Lycus
Lycus (Ancient Greek: Λύκος, lit. 'wolf') is not a single supernatural being but an ancient Greek personal name and toponym applied to multiple mythological human figures (notably regents and rulers in Theban cycles) and to several rivers across the classical world. The extant sources present Lycus primarily as mortal mythic actors or as geographic names rather than as an independent class of spirit or creature.
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