Erechtheus

or Erichthonius, an ‘Attic hero, who was the chief means of establishing the worship of Athena in Attica. He instituted the Panathenea, and a temple, the Erechtheum, was erected in his own honor. This original Erechtheum was burned by _ the Persians, but a new and magnificent Ionic temple was raised on the same site. He was said to have been the son of Hephestus and At this, ee eaten important town in the Pru ian Province of Saxony, on the river Gera, formerly a fortre with two Citadels, now given up as such, It has a fine cathedral dating from the 13th century and several handsome Gothic churches. The) university, founded in 1378 and suppre ed in 1816, was long an important institution, There are still a Royal Academy of Science and a Royal Library with 50,000 volumes. The monastery (now an orphanage) was the residence of Luther from 1501 to 1508. Pop. (1900), 35,190.