Iasion
| Iasion | |
|---|---|
Founder of the Mystic rites | |
| Other names | Iasus, Eetion |
| Abode | (1) Samothrace or (2) Italy |
| Personal information | |
| Parents | (1) Zeus and Electra (2) Corythus and Electra (3) Ilithyius |
| Siblings | (1) & (2) Dardanus, Harmonia and (1) Emathion (possibly) |
| Consort | (i) Demeter (ii) Cybele |
| Children | (i) Plutus and Philomelus (ii) Corybas |
In
romanized: Ēetíōn), was the founder of the mystic rites on the island of Samothrace
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Family
According to the mythographer
With
De Astronomica, Iasion was also the father of Philomelus,[11] while, according to Diodorus Siculus, he was the father of a son named Corybas with Cybele.[12]
Mythology
At the marriage of
Hyginus attributes his death to horses.[17] Ovid, in contrast, says that Iasion lived to an old age as the husband of Demeter.[18]
Some versions of this myth conclude with Iasion and the agricultural hero Triptolemus then becoming the Gemini constellation.[19]
Notes
- ^ gen.: Ἰασίωνος
- ^ gen.: Ἰάσου
- P. Oxy. 1359 fr. 2 (Grenfell and Hunt, p. 53)].
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.916 with Hellanicus as the authority; Scholia on Euripides, Phoenissae 1129; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 219
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.1.
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.124
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- Fabulae 270
- ^ Hansen, p. 147; Hesiod, Theogony 969–71; Diodorus Siculus, 5.77.1
- De Astronomica 2.4.7
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.49.2
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- ISBN 0-14-019601-3.
- ^ Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre 535 ff.
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- ^ Smith, s.v. Iasion; Hyginus, Fabulae 250
- ^ Smith, s.v. Iasion; Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.421.
- ISBN 978-1-4438-2176-6.
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- ISBN 978-0198147404. Google Books.
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- ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3(Vol. 2).
- Grenfell, Bernard P., and Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part XI, London, Egypt Exploration Fund, 1915. Internet Archive.
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- Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004. .
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- Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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- Fabulae, in The Myths of Hyginus, edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960. Online version at ToposText.
- Lactantius, Divine Institutes, Translated by William Fletcher (1810-1900). From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Merkelbach, R., and ISBN 978-0-19-814171-6.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, edited and translated by Brookes More, Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co., 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Online version at ToposText.
- Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Wendel, Carl, Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium vetera, Hildesheim, Weidmann, 1999. ISBN 978-3-615-15400-9.