Iacchus

deity Eleusinian Mysteries single tradition · 4

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #1025 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
1500 BCE
Attested period
-1500 – 2020
Historical notes
Mentioned in Nonnus' Dionysiaca.

Relationships

syncretized with
Dionysus
consort of
Demeter
sibling of
Melinoe
child of
Aura, Dionysus, Semele

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Sources

Source passages

“According to Nonnus, Aura's surviving child by Dionysus, is Iacchus, a minor deity connected with the Eleusinian Mysteries, although other accounts have Iacchus, when not identified with Dionysus himself, the son of Demeter or Persephone.”

#27898 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The Eleusinian Mysteries identify him with Iacchus, the son or husband of Demeter.”

#37826 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“participants at the Lenaia responded to the command to "Invoke the god" with the invocation, "Hail, Iacchos, son of Semele, thou giver of wealth."”

#46058 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free