Zagreus
Zagreus is a god who dies and later returns to life. He is cited as an example of a dying-and-rising god.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 700 BCE
- Attested period
- -700 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested from ancient Greece.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ereshkigal, galla, Chronos, Erebus, Ouranos, Chaos, Aether, Semele, Nyx, Protogonos, Idaean Zeus, mountain Mother, Jesus, Attis, Osiris, Adonis, Tammuz, Enki, Inanna, Rhea, Hecate, Odysseus, Phanes, Kronos
- sibling of
- Melinoe
- manifests as
- Dionysus, Orphic Dionysus
- syncretized with
- Orphic Dionysus
- child of
- Zeus, Persephone, Hades
- has aspect
- Eubuleus
Mentioned by
- Jesus
- Attis
- Osiris
- Adonis
- Tammuz
- Enki
- Inanna
- Rhea
- Hecate
- Odysseus
- Phanes
- Kronos
- Gaia
- Zeus
- Persephone
- Hades
and 1 more
Sources
Source passages
“In other Orphic tales, Zagreus is depicted as the son of Hades and Persephone, and is the god of rebirth.”
#12074 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Melinoë is the protagonist of the video game Hades II, developed and published by Supergiant Games. In the game, Melinoë is the Princess of the Underworld and sister of Zagreus, the protagonist of the first game. She seeks to defeat Chronos with help from Hecate, the Olympian gods, and other figures from Greek mythology, such as Odysseus.”
#18895 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Zagreus, Dionysus' previous incarnation, is the son of Zeus and Persephone. Zeus names the child as his successor, which angers his wife Hera. She instigates the Titans to murder the child. Zagreus is then tricked with a mirror and children's toys”
#36700 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The Zagreus from the Euripides fragment is suggestive of Dionysus, the wine god son of Zeus and Semele, and in fact, although it seems not to occur anywhere in Orphic sources, the name “Zagreus” is elsewhere identified with an Orphic Dionysus, who had a very different tradition from the standard one.”
#37912 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001