In Euripides ' play Ion, Apollo fathered Ion by Creusa, wife of Xuthus.

However, Euripides wrote in his tragedy Ion that the Athenian queen Creusa had inherited this vial from her ancestor Erichthonios, who was a snake himself and had received the vial from Athena.

However, according to Euripides ' Ion, in which she is a prominent character, Creusa was mother of Ion by Apollo, while Xuthus was infertile so he accepted Ion as his own son.

Years later, Xuthus went to consult the Delphian oracle about his marriage to Creusa being childless and met Ion, who had been raised at the temple of Apollo ; the prophecy seemed to indicate Ion as his son, so Xuthus decided to adopt the youth.

Eventually Creusa realized that Ion was her son by Apollo she had abandoned, after Ion described to her the contents of the basket he had been found in as a baby ; they, however, agreed to keep it a secret from Xuthus.

Creusa is also mentioned as the mother of Ion with Apollo by Stephanus of Byzantium and in several scholia.

He had two sons by Creusa: Ion and Achaeus and a daughter named Diomede.

Euripides's play, Ion, provides an unusual alternate version, according to which Xuthus is son of Aeolus and Cyane and Ion has in fact been begotten on Xuthus's wife Creusa by Apollo.

In 1993, she played the lead as a Welsh maid who gets in over her head in the Bush Theatre's production of Lucinda Coxon's Waiting at the Water's Edge ; in 2002, she was cast as Creusa in a Gate Theatre production of Euripides ' Ion ; and in early 2005, she appeared as Dora, a woman incarcerated in a 1920s asylum in the Salisbury Playhouse's production of Charlotte Jones ' chamber drama, Airswimming.

According to Greek myth, Apollo chased the nymph Daphne, daughter either of Peneus and Creusa in Thessaly, or of the river Ladon in Arcadia.

In the play, Creusa was seduced by Apollo long before her marriage to Xuthus, and exposed the newborn baby in fear of her parents ' wrath.

Hyginus calls Creusa mother of Cephalus by Hermes.

Xuthus and Creusa visited the Oracle at Delphi to ask the god if they could hope for a child.

After the Trojan War, as the city burned, Aeneas escaped to Latium in Italy, taking his father Anchises and his child Ascanius with him, though Creusa died during the escape.

The nymph Creusa bore him one son, Hypseus, who was King of the Lapiths, and three daughters, Menippe ( mother of Phrastor by Pelasgus ), Daphne and Stilbe.

Creusa grabs his feet and begs him to think of what would become of Iulus, Anchises and herself if Aeneas were to be killed.

As he searches the city without success, he meets the ghost of Creusa, who tells him that she may not leave the city with him.

* Creusa, wife of the Carian Cassandrus and mother by him of Menes.

Creusa was the daughter of Erechtheus, King of Athens and his wife, Praxithea, who was spared the fate of her sisters ( see Chthonia ) because she was an infant at the time they had sworn to commit suicide if one of them died.

Procris had at least two sisters, Creusa and Orithyia.

Quint argues that Cleopatra ( not Antony ) fulfils Virgil's Dido archetype ; " woman is subordinated as is generally the case in The Aeneid, excluded from power and the process of Empire-building: this exclusion is evident in the poem's fiction where Creusa disappears and Dido is abandoned ... woman's place or displacement is therefore in the East, and epic features a series of oriental heroines whose seductions are potentially more perilous than Eastern arms ", i. e., Cleopatra.

His wet-nurse was Caieta, and he is the father of Ascanius with Creusa, and of Silvius with Lavinia.

Other children of Priam and Hecuba include the prophetic Helenus and Cassandra ; eldest daughter Ilione ; Deiphobus ; Troilus ; Polites ; Creusa, wife of Aeneas ; Laodice, wife of Helicaon ; Polyxena, who was slaughtered on the grave of Achilles ; and Polydorus, his youngest son.

Julius was a Roman family, derived from a founder Julus, the son of Aeneas and Creusa in Roman mythology, although the name's etymology may possibly derive from Greek () " downy-bearded " or alternatively from the name of the Roman god Jupiter.

Erechtheus was father, by his wife Praxithea, of several daughters: Procris, Creusa, Chthonia and Oreithyia.

According to Pindar's 9th Pythian Ode, Creusa was a Naiad and daughter of Gaia who bore Hypseus, future King of the Lapiths, to the river god Peneus.

Creusa, unaware of her husband's infertility, thought that Ion's birth must have been the result of Xuthus ' adultery in the past, and attempted to poison the young man, but he was in time to discover her intent, and was about to kill her.

Creusa, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, was the first wife of Aeneas and mother to Ascanius ( also known as Iulus ).

Creusa was unable to keep up with them.

Pausanias relates that Rhea and Aphrodite rescued Creusa from being enslaved by the Greeks on account of her being the wife of Aeneas ( who was a son of Aphrodite ).

In Greek and Roman mythology, Ascanius was the son of the Trojan prince Aeneas and Creusa, daughter of Priam.

After the defeat of Troy in the Trojan War, the elderly Anchises was carried from the burning city by his son Aeneas, accompanied by Aeneas ' wife Creusa, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius ( the subject is depicted in several paintings, including a famous version by Federico Barocci in the Galleria Borghese in Rome ).

" The fourth-century commentator Servius writes that there was some controversy about whose wet-nurse Caieta was: in addition to Aeneas, he offers Creusa and Ascanius as possibilities.

Other traditions held that Iulus was the son of Aeneas by his Trojan wife, Creusa, while Ascanius was the son of Aeneas and Lavinia, daughter of Latinus.

Infuriated with Jason for breaking his vow that he would be hers forever, Medea took her revenge by presenting to Creusa a cursed dress, as a wedding gift, that stuck to her body and burned her to death as soon as she put it on.

In the version of the myth commonly followed by ancient tragedians, Medea obtained her revenge by giving Creusa a dress that had been cursed by the sorceress.

* Creusa, an Amazon spearwoman in a painting on a vase from Cumae that depicts a battle of the Amazons against Theseus and his army ; she is portrayed as being overcome by Phylacus.

* Hypseus, King of the Lapiths, son of the river god Peneus by the naiad Creusa, daughter of Gaia.

Also known by the name Creusa, predominantly in Latin authors, e. g. Seneca ( Medea ) and Propertius ( 2. 16. 30 ).

Much of Whitehead's work was well received: his tragedy The Roman Father was successfully produced by David Garrick in 1750, Creusa, Queen of Athens ( 1754 ) was also praised and his comedies The School for Lovers ( 1762 ) and The Trip to Scotland ( 1770 ) were successful.

In Corinth, Jason became engaged to marry Creusa ( sometimes referred to as Glauce ), a daughter of the King of Corinth, to strengthen his political ties.

His wife Creusa is killed during the sack of the city.

As Aeneas is searching his fallen Troy for his wife Creusa, he glimpses Phoenix and Odysseus guarding their loot in Priam's palace.

In the end of the play, Athena promised that Creusa and Xuthus would have two sons together, Achaeus and Dorus.