Eleuther
In Greek mythology, the name Eleuther may refer to:
- Eleuther, son of Apollo and Aethusa[1]. He is renowned for having an excellent singing voice, which earned him a victory at the Pythian games[2], and for having been the first to erect a statue of Dionysus[3], as well as for having given his name to Eleutherae[4]. His sons were Iasius[5] and Pierus[3]. He also had several daughters, who spoke impiously of the image of Dionysus wearing a black aegis, and were driven mad by the god; as a remedy, Eleuther, in accordance with an oracle, established a cult of "Dionysus of the Black Aegis"[6].
- Eleuther, one of the twenty sons of Lycaon. He and his brother Lebadus were the only not guilty of the abomination prepared for Zeus, and fled to Boeotia.[7]
- Eleuther, one of the Curetes, was said to have been the eponym of the towns Eleutherae and Eleuthernae in Crete[8].
References
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 10. 1
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10. 7. 3
- ^ a b Hyginus, Fabulae, 225
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Eleutherai
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 20. 1
- ^ Suda s. v. melanaigida Dionyson
- ^ Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, 39
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Eleutherai, Eleuthernai