Eleuther

Eleuther

Eleuther

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In Greek mythology, the name Eleuther[pronunciation?] (Ancient Greek: Ἐλευθήρ) may refer to:

  • Eleuther, one of the Curetes, was said to have been the eponym of the towns Eleutherae and Eleuthernae in Crete.[1]
  • Eleuther, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene,[2] Nonacris[3] or by unknown woman. He and his brother Lebadus were the only not guilty of the abomination prepared for Zeus, and fled to Boeotia.[4]
  • Eleuther, a variant of the name Eleutherios, early Greek god who was the son of Zeus and probably an alternate name of Dionysus.[5]
  • Eleuther, son of Apollo and Aethusa.[6] He is renowned for having an excellent singing voice, which earned him a victory at the Pythian games,[7] and for having been the first to erect a statue of Dionysus,[8] as well as for having given his name to Eleutherae.[9] His sons were Iasius[10] (Iasion[11]) and Pierus[citation needed]. He also had several daughters, who spoke impiously of the image of Dionysus wearing a black aegis, and were driven mad by the god; as a remedy, Eleuther, in accordance with an oracle, established a cult of "Dionysus of the Black Aegis".[12]

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Eleutherai, Eleuthernai
  2. [2]
    Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
  3. [3]
    Pausanias, 8.17.6
  4. [4]
    Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 39
  5. [5]
    Kerényi, Karl. 1976. Dionysus. Trans. Ralph Manheim, Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691029156, 9780691029153
  6. [6]
    Apollodorus, 3.10.1
  7. [7]
    Pausanias, 10.7.3
  8. [8]
    Hyginus, Fabulae 225
  9. [9]
    Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Eleutherai
  10. [10]
    Pausanias, 9.20.1
  11. [11]
    Hesiod, Ehoiai 123.6
  12. [12]
    Suida, s.v. melanaigida Dionyson

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