He was the son of Dardanus and Batea (in some other legends his mother is said to be, Olizone, daughter of Phineus[1]).
Erichthonius is of uncertain etymology, possibly related to a pre-Greek form *Erektyeu-.
[3][4] Fundamentally, all that is known of this Erichthonius comes from Homer, who says (Samuel Butler's translation of Iliad 20.215-234): John Tzetzes and one of the scholia to Lycophron call his wife Astyoche, the naiad daughter of the river-god Simoeis.
[5] Strabo records, but discounts, the claim by "some more recent writers" that Teucer came from the deme of Xypeteones in Attica, supposedly called Troes (meaning Trojans) in mythical times.
Erichthonius reigned for forty six or, according to others, sixty five years and was succeeded by his son Tros.