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Icarus mythology story1/28/2024 ![]() ![]() " The story of Ikarios (Icarius) who entertained Dionysos : Eratosthenes in his Erigone. Pseudo-Plutarch, Greek and Roman Parallel Stories 9 (trans. Herein he was helped by the oracle at Delphoi, which called to mind that the god once dwelt in Athens in the days of Ikarios (Icarius)." ![]() "Pegasos (Pegasus) of Eleutherai, introduced the god to the Athenians. "The vine : used by Parthenius in his Herakles: The Vinecluster of the Daughter of Ikarios." Parthenius, Fragment 17 (from Etymologicum genuinum, s.v. As his daughter was looking for him, a dog named Maira (Mera), who had been Ikarios' faithful companion, unearthed the corpse and Erigone, in the act of mourning her father, hanged herself." But in the daylight they regained their senses and buried him. Ikarios was eager to share the god's kindness with mankind, so he went to some shepherds, who, when they had tasted the drink and then delightedly and recklessly gulped it down undiluted, thought they had been poisoned and slew Ikarios. Keleus (Celeus) welcomed Demeter to Eleusis, and Ikarios (Icarius) received Dionysos, who gave him a vine-cutting and taught him the art of making wine. It was during his reign that Demeter and Dionysos came to Attika (Attica). Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Sophocles wrote a play entitled Erigone which either dramatized the story of Erigone, daughter of Ikarios, or the similarly-named Erigone, daughter of Aigisthos. Sophocles, Erigone (lost play) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) : ![]() Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. One of the Attic demi derived its name from Icarius. Aristaeus prayed to his father, Apollo, for help, and Apollo advised him to propitiate Icarius with many sacrifices, and to beg Zeus to send the winds called Etesiae, which Zeus, in consequence, made blow at the rising of the dog-star for forty days. 4.) Another tradition states that the murderers of Icarius fled to the island of Cos, which was therefore visited by a drought, during which the fields were burned, and epidemics prevailed. The askoliasmos, or dancing on a leather bag filled with air and smeared with oil, at the festivals of Dionysus, was likewise traced to Icarius, who was said to have killed a ram for having injured the vines, to have made a bag of his skin, and then performed a dance. The bodies were not discovered, but a festival called aiôra or alêtides, was instituted in honour of Erigone, and fruits were offered up as a sacrifice to her and her father. ![]() 10.) The oracle, when consulted, answered, that Athens should be delivered from the calamity as soon as Erigone should be propitiated, and her and her father's body should be found. The god then punished the ungrateful Athenians with a plague or a mania, in which all the Athenian maidens hung themselves as Erigone had done. Zeus or Dionysus placed her, together with Icarius and his cup, among the stars, making Erigone the Virgin, Icarius Boötes or Arcturus, and Maera the dog-star. From grief she hung herself on the tree under which he was buried. 366), or as some call her Aletis, after a long search, found his grave, to which she was conducted by his faithful dog Maera. His daughter Erigone (for he was married to Phanothea, the inventor of the hexameter, Clem. Icarius now rode about in a chariot, and distributed the precious gifts of the god but some shepherds whom their friends intoxicated with wine, and who thought that they were poisoned by Icarius, slew him, and threw his body into the well Anygrus, or buried it under a tree. The god showed him his gratitude by teaching him the cultivation of the vine, and giving him bags filled with wine. ICARIUS (Ikarios), an Athenian, who lived in the reign of Pandion, and hospitably received Dionysus on his arrival in Attica. Following the advise of an oracle, the Athenians instituted a festival in honour of the dead heroes and so appeased the wrath of the god.ĮRIGONE (Apollodorus 2.192, Aelian On Animals 7.28, Hyginus Fabulae 130, Hyginus Astronomica 2.2) Dionysos was infuriated by their deaths and-after transferring Ikarios, Erigone and Maira to the stars as the constellations Bootes, Virgo and Canis Major-, inflicted the land with drought and drove the young maidens mad, causing them to also hang themselves. His daughter Erigone and faithful hound Maira (Maera) searched for him and, when they found his body, she hung herself from a tree and the dog leapt leapt into a well. Ikarios shared the gift with his countrymen, but was stoned to death by a group of drunken shepherds who thought they had been poisoned. IKARIOS (Icarius) was an Athenian man who was instructed in the art of winemaking by the god Dionysos when he first arrived in the country. Dionysus, Acme and Icarius, Greco-Roman mosaic from Paphos C3rd A.D., Kato Paphos Archaeological Park ![]()
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