Xuthus was the son of Hellen, the ancestor of the Greek people, and Orseis, a water nymph. He was a Phythian king who later became the king of Peloponneses. His wife was Creusa, the princess of Athens. Xuthus was the progenitor of the Greek kingdoms through his sons, Dorus, Ion and Acheus. According to Hesiod’s ‘Catalogue of Women’, the three sons started the Dorian, the Ionian and the Achaean kingdoms.