Ino
Also known as: Leucothea · Family: Mythological · Role: woman · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 42
In Book 1, Chapter 42, Ino’s body was said to have washed ashore in Megaris, where Cleso and Tauropolis found and buried it. In Chapter 44, fleeing Athamas, she threw herself from the Molurian rock into the sea with her younger son Melicerta; her eldest son, Learchus, had been killed by his father.
In Book 3, Chapter 24, Ino came to Brasiæ and reared Dionysus in a cave as his nurse. Book 9, Chapter 5, names her as a daughter of Cadmus and one of the sea goddesses.
Relationship record
Life events
- Cleso and Tauropolis found Ino’s body and buried it.(Book 1 · Chapter 42 · 📍 Megaris)
- With: Cleso Tauropolis
- “Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleso and granddaughters of Lelex, found it and buried it.”
- Ino escaped Athamas by throwing herself and Melicerta into the sea.(Book 1 · Chapter 44 · 📍 Molurian rock)
- With: Melicerta Athamas (father of Phrixus)
- “So she to escape him threw herself and her boy Melicerta into the sea from the Molurian rock.”
- Ino became Dionysus’s nurse and reared him in a cave.(Book 3 · Chapter 24 · 📍 Brasiæ)
- With: Dionysus
- “when she came there wished to be the nurse of Dionysus. And they show the cave where she reared Dionysus”
Book 1 · Chapter 42
- with Cleso (Cleso found and buried Ino's dead body.) “The Megarians are the only Greeks that say that the dead body of Ino was cast on the shore of Megaris, and that Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleso and granddaughters of Lelex, found it and buried it.”
- with Tauropolis (Tauropolis found and buried Ino's dead body.) “The Megarians are the only Greeks that say that the dead body of Ino was cast on the shore of Megaris, and that Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleso and granddaughters of Lelex, found it and buried it.”
- with Cleso (Cleso found and buried Ino's dead body.) “Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleso and granddaughters of Lelex, found it and buried it.”
- with Tauropolis (Tauropolis found and buried Ino's dead body.) “Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleso and granddaughters of Lelex, found it and buried it.”
Book 1 · Chapter 44
- child: Melicerta “Ino threw herself into the sea from it with Melicerta, the younger of her sons”
- child: Learchus “for Learchus the oldest was killed by his father”
Book 3 · Chapter 24
- ward: Dionysus (Ino is described as Dionysus's nurse and rearer.) “The people of Brasiæ say further that Ino came to their land on her travels, and when she came there wished to be the nurse of Dionysus. And they show the cave where she reared Dionysus”
Book 9 · Chapter 5
- parent: Cadmus (Cadmus is the antecedent of the possessive 'his'.) “his daughters were famous, Semele as the mother of a son by Zeus, and Ino as one of the sea goddesses”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.