Eleuther, one of the
Curetes, was said to have been the
eponym of the towns Eleutherae and Eleuthernae in
Crete.[1]
Eleuther, an
Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King
Lycaon either by the
naiadCyllene,[2]Nonacris[3] or by unknown woman. He and his brother
Lebadus were the only not guilty of the abomination prepared for
Zeus, and fled to
Boeotia.[4]
Eleuther, a variant of the name
Eleutherios, early Greek god who was the son of Zeus and probably an alternate name of
Dionysus.[5]
Eleuther, son of
Apollo and
Aethusa.[6] He is renowned for having an excellent singing voice, which earned him a victory at the
Pythian games,[7] and for having been the first to erect a statue of
Dionysus,[8] as well as for having given his name to
Eleutherae.[9] His sons were
Iasius[10] (
Iasion[11]) and
Pierus[citation needed]. 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".[12]
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Eleuther, one of the
Curetes, was said to have been the
eponym of the towns Eleutherae and Eleuthernae in
Crete.[1]
Eleuther, an
Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King
Lycaon either by the
naiadCyllene,[2]Nonacris[3] or by unknown woman. He and his brother
Lebadus were the only not guilty of the abomination prepared for
Zeus, and fled to
Boeotia.[4]
Eleuther, a variant of the name
Eleutherios, early Greek god who was the son of Zeus and probably an alternate name of
Dionysus.[5]
Eleuther, son of
Apollo and
Aethusa.[6] He is renowned for having an excellent singing voice, which earned him a victory at the
Pythian games,[7] and for having been the first to erect a statue of
Dionysus,[8] as well as for having given his name to
Eleutherae.[9] His sons were
Iasius[10] (
Iasion[11]) and
Pierus[citation needed]. 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".[12]
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.