Iasion

deity earth Greek single tradition · 3

Iasion was a youth of Crete who lay with Demeter in a thrice-ploughed field and was subsequently killed by a jealous Zeus with a thunderbolt.

↻ synthesized from 3 sources

When

First attested
100 BCE
Attested period
-100 – 2020

Relationships

consort of
Demeter
enemy of
Zeus
parent of
Philomelus, Plutus
child of
Zeus, Electra

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Sources

wikipedia (3)

Source passages

“usually, however, he is the son of Demeter and Iasion.”

#10619 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“the exception is Iasion, the youth of Crete who lay with her in a thrice-ploughed field and was killed afterward by a jealous Zeus with a thunderbolt.”

#27966 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat

“Philomelus the son of Demeter and Iasion”

#44905 · extracted by google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free