-
crying out “
Iacchus”. This
miraculous event was
interpreted as a sign of the
eventual Gr****
victory at the
Battle of
Salamis (480 BC).
Iacchus was also possibly...
- Hard, p. 134; Grimal, s.v.
Iacchus, p. 224; Tripp, s.v.
Iacchus, p. 313; Rose,
Oxford classical Dictionary s.v.
Iacchus;
scholiast on Aristophanes, Frogs...
-
surviving child by Dionysus, is
Iacchus, a
minor deity connected with the
Eleusinian mysteries,
although other accounts have
Iacchus, when not
identified with...
-
named for him,
called Iacchus, and sung
during the
procession – or the
personification of the
ritual cry "Íakhe". See Smith,
Iacchus; Aristophanes, Frogs...
- all
deities the
nearest related to Aphrodite."
Myrtle is the
garland of
Iacchus,
according to Aristophanes, and of the
victors at the
Theban Iolaea, held...
- Eleusis, he is
known as a son of Zeus and Demeter. The name
Iacchus may come from
iacchus, a hymn sung in
honor of him. With the
epithet Liknites ("he...
- Ovid
addresses the child-god
Iacchus as "puer aeternus" and
praises him for his role in the
Eleusinian mysteries.
Iacchus is
later identified with the...
-
Hestia Poseidon Zeus
Chthonic deities Hades ****phone
Erinyes Gaia
Hecate Iacchus Melinoë
Triptolemus Trophonius Lesser deities Alpheus Amphitrite Asclepius...
-
Orphic ****phone is said to have
become by Zeus the
mother of
Dionysus /
Iacchus / Zagreus, and the little-attested Melinoë. In
mythology and literature...
- and of sun and rain;
Demeter in the gr****, I multiply,
renew and
bless Iacchus in the vine; I hold the law, I keep the
mysteries true, the
first of these...
