Icarius
Family: Attica · Role: host of Dionysus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9
🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Icarius)
Icarius was named as a child of Perieres and Gorgophone. With Periboea, a Naiad nymph, he had five sons—Thoas, Damasippus, Imeusimus, Aletes, and Perileos—and a daughter, Penelope, whom Ulysses married after soliciting Icarius for her hand.
At Lacedaemon, Hippocoon expelled Icarius and Tyndareus, but after Heracles slew Hippocoon and his sons, they returned and Tyndareus succeeded to the kingdom. Later, Icarius received from Dionysus a vine branch and learned how to make wine. When he shared the drink with shepherds, they mistook it for a bewitchment and killed him; afterward, his daughter Erigone searched for him.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hercules killed Hippocoon and his sons, allowing Icarius and Tyndareus to return.(Apollodorus, Library 3.10 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
- Shepherds killed Icarius after mistaking his wine for a bewitchment.(Apollodorus, Library 3.14)
- “Icarius went to some shepherds, who, having tasted the beverage and quaffed it copiously without water for the pleasure of it, imagined that they were bewitched and killed him”
Apollodorus, Library 1.9
- parent: Perieres “by whom he had sons, to wit, Aphareus and Leucippus, and Tyndareus, and also Icarius.”
Apollodorus, Library 3.10
- parent: Gorgophone “and she bore Tyndareus, Icarius, Aphareus, and Leucippus.”
- enemies with Hippocoon “With the help of these sons Hippocoon expelled Icarius and Tyndareus from Lacedaemon.”
- child: Thoas “Icarius and Periboea, a Naiad nymph, had five sons, Thoas, Damasippus, Imeusimus, Aletes, Perileos, and a daughter Penelope”
- child: Penelope “and a daughter Penelope, whom Ulysses married.”
- with Hippocoon (Hippocoon and his sons expelled Icarius.) “With the help of these sons Hippocoon expelled Icarius and Tyndareus from Lacedaemon .”
- child: Periboea “Icarius and Periboea, a Naiad nymph, had five sons, Thoas, Damasippus, Imeusimus, Aletes, Perileos, and a daughter Penelope”
- with Penelope (interaction) “he solicited Icarius to bestow Penelope on Ulysses.”
Apollodorus, Library 3.14
- mentor: Dionysus “Icarius, who received from him a branch of a vine and learned the process of making wine”
- child: Erigone “When his daughter Erigone was searching for her father”
Apollodorus, Epitome 7
- child: Penelope “sent away by Ulysses to her father Icarius”
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