But in the play Ion, Creusa was dragged into a cave by Apollo, raped and impregnated by him long before her marriage to Xuthus.
Creusa gave birth to her child without pain due to Apollo's intervention, but she left the baby in a cave because she feared her father's reproach.
When she couldn't find the child, she assumed that the wild beasts had eaten the baby and went back grieving.
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.
[15] In 1754 the play Creusa, Queen of Athens by William Whitehead was produced at the Drury Lane Theatre in London.