(Ἴων; Íōn).
[1] Hero of the Ionians
Eponymous hero of the Ionians ( Iones). Several traditions of his ancestry emphasizing Athens' political primacy are extant. The earliest and most influential versions present I. as the son of Xuthus and Creusa, thus as the grandson of Hellen, progenitor of the Hellenes, and of the Athenian king Erechtheus (Str. 8,383; Paus. 7,1,2). I.'s b…