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
- co occurs with
- Black Demeter, Parias, Nemesis, Prometheus, Oceanus, Agathos Daimon, Tyche, Tethys, Poseidon, Persephone
- consort of
- Demeter
- enemy of
- Zeus
- parent of
- Philomelus, Plutus
Mentioned by
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