Iasion

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.12

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Iäsion)

Life events

• Zeus killed Iasion with a thunderbolt after he attempted to defile Demeter.(Apollodorus, Library 3.12)
  • With: Zeus
  • “Now Iasion loved Demeter, and in an attempt to defile the goddess he was killed by a thunderbolt.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.12

• parent: Electra “Electra, daughter of Atlas, had two sons, Iasion and Dardanus, by Zeus.”
• parent: Zeus “Electra, daughter of Atlas, had two sons, Iasion and Dardanus, by Zeus.”
• with Demeter (Iasion loved Demeter.) “Now Iasion loved Demeter, and in an attempt to defile the goddess he was killed by a thunderbolt.”
• siblings with Dardanus “Grieved at his brother's death, Dardanus left Samothrace and came to the opposite mainland.”
• courtship with Demeter “Now Iasion loved Demeter, and in an attempt to defile the goddess he was killed by a thunderbolt.”

Hesiod, Theogony 869-975

• with Demeter (interaction) “Demeter, bright goddess, was joined in sweet love with the hero Iasion”
• child: Plutus “Demeter, bright goddess, was joined in sweet love with the hero Iasion ... and bare Plutus”
• courtship with Demeter “Demeter, bright goddess, was joined in sweet love with the hero Iasion”

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