Creusa.
(1) A daughter of the king of Athens who was raped by Apollo and gave birth to Ion.
See below.

(2) The wife of Jason, killed by Medea; also called Glauce.
See Jason, General List and Medea.

(3) The wife of Aeneas.
See Aeneas, Flight from Troy.


According to Attic legend. Creusa was the third daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens. As a maiden she was ravished by Apollo and bore a son. Ion. Fearing her father’s wrath, she left the infant to die in a grotto on the Acropolis. At Apollo’s request, Ion was rescued by Hermes, who brought him to Delphi, where the child became a temple servant.
Creusa was later married to Xuthus as a reward for his aid to Erechtheus in battle, but she was barren. According to Euripides, she and her husband visited the oracle at Delphi, where Xuthus was told to accept as his son the first boy he saw on leaving the temple. He saw Ion, now a priest of Apollo, and laid claim to him. Jealously imagining that the boy was Xuthus’s child by a previous union. Creusa planned to poison Ion, but he discovered the plot and took refuge in the temple. With the intervention of Athena, mother and son were reconciled.

Classical Source. Euripides, Ion.