Ino

Also known as: Leucothea · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Ino) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Ino)

In Boeotia, Ino married Athamas and became the parent of Learchus and Melicertes. She plotted against Phrixus and Helle, the children of Nephele. Later, Athamas killed Learchus while mad, and Ino cast herself and Melicertes into the sea: “But afterwards Athamas was bereft also of the children of Ino through the wrath of Hera.”

Ino was also born to Cadmus and Harmonia, alongside Autonoe, Semele, Agave, and Polydorus. With Athamas, she was entrusted with raising Dionysus as a girl, but Hera drove them mad; Ino threw Melicertes into a boiling cauldron and then carried the dead child into the deep.

Relationship record

Life events

• Athamas kills Learchus, while Ino casts herself and Melicertes into the sea.(Apollodorus, Library 1.9 · 📍 Boeotia)
  • With: Athamas Learchus Melicertes
  • “But afterwards Athamas was bereft also of the children of Ino through the wrath of Hera; for he went mad and shot Learchus with an arrow, and Ino cast herself and Melicertes into the sea.”
• Cadmus and Harmonia had four daughters and a son, Polydorus.(Apollodorus, Library 3.4)
  • With: Cadmus Autonoe Semele Agave Polydorus
  • “And to Cadmus were born daughters, Autonoe, Ino, Semele, Agave, and a son Polydorus.”
• Hera drove Athamas and Ino mad, causing the deaths of Learchus and Melicertes.(Apollodorus, Library 3.4)
  • With: Hera Athamas Learchus Melicertes
  • “But Hera indignantly drove them mad, and Athamas hunted his elder son Learchus as a deer and killed him, and Ino threw Melicertes into a boiling cauldron, then carrying it with the dead child she sprang into the deep.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• married with Athamas “And he married a second wife, Ino”
• child: Learchus “Ino, by whom he had Learchus and Melicertes.”
• child: Melicertes “Ino, by whom he had Learchus and Melicertes.”
• enemies with Phrixus “But Ino plotted against the children of Nephele”
• enemies with Helle “But Ino plotted against the children of Nephele”

Apollodorus, Library 3.4

• parent: Cadmus “And to Cadmus were born daughters, Autonoe, Ino, Semele, Agave, and a son Polydorus.”
• siblings with Autonoe “And to Cadmus were born daughters, Autonoe, Ino, Semele, Agave, and a son Polydorus.”
• siblings with Semele “And to Cadmus were born daughters, Autonoe, Ino, Semele, Agave, and a son Polydorus.”
• siblings with Agave “And to Cadmus were born daughters, Autonoe, Ino, Semele, Agave, and a son Polydorus.”
• siblings with Polydorus “And to Cadmus were born daughters, Autonoe, Ino, Semele, Agave, and a son Polydorus.”
• ward: Dionysus “And he conveyed him to Ino and Athamas, and persuaded them to rear him as a girl.”
• enemies with Hera “But Hera indignantly drove them mad,”
• with Hera (Hera drove Ino mad.) “But Hera indignantly drove them mad”
• with Melicertes (Ino threw Melicertes into a boiling cauldron.) “Ino threw Melicertes into a boiling cauldron”

Hesiod, Theogony 869-975

• parent: Harmonia “bare to Cadmus Ino and Semele and fair-cheeked Agave”

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