Editing Iasion (section)

== Family ==
According to the mythographer [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], Iasion is the son of the [[Pleiad]] [[Electra (Pleiad)|Electra]] and [[Zeus]], and the brother of [[Dardanus (son of Zeus)|Dardanus]]<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.12.1 3.12.1].</ref> and possibly [[Emathion]].<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' 3.124</ref> Both [[Hellanicus of Lesbos|Hellanicus]] and [[Diodorus Siculus]] repeat this parentage, adding [[Harmonia]] as his sister.<ref>Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA522 p. 552]; Gantz, p. 215; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA297 p. 297]; [[Hellanicus of Lesbos|Hellanicus]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA163 fr. 23 Fowler, p. 163] [= Scholia on [[Apollonius Rhodius]], 1.916–18a (Wendel, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0lkhbarJcukC&pg=PA77 p. 77])]; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#48.2 5.48.2]</ref> According to an Italian version of the genealogy, Iasion and Dardanus are both Electra's sons, and are both born in Italy, with Iasion fathered by [[Corythus]] and Dardanus by Zeus.<ref>Grimal, [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofclas0000grim/page/144/mode/2up?view=theater s.v. Electra (2), p. 144]; Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104:entry=electra-bio-2 s.v. Electra (2)]; Gantz, p. 872 n. 4 to p. 561; [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]], ''Commentary on [[Virgil]]'s [[Aeneid]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Serv.+A.+3.167&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0053 3.167], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Serv.+A.+7.207&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0053 7.207], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Serv.+A.+10.719&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0053 10.719]; [[Lactantius]], ''[[The Divine Institutes|Divine Institutes]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/543#1.23 1.23].</ref> In the ''[[Fabulae]]'' (attributed to [[Gaius Julius Hyginus]]), Iasion is called the son of [[Ilithyius]].<ref>Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104:entry=iasion-bio-1 s.v. Iasion]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#270 270]</ref>

With [[Demeter]], Iasion was the father of [[Plutus]], the god of wealth.<ref>Hansen, [https://archive.org/details/handbookofclassi0000hans/page/146/mode/2up?view=theater p. 147]; Hesiod, ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:963-1002 969–71]; Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#77.1 5.77.1]</ref> According to Hyginus' ''[[De astronomia]]'', Iasion was also the father of [[Philomelus]],<ref>Hyginus, ''[[De astronomia]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.4.7 2.4.7]</ref> while, according to Diodorus Siculus, he was the father of a son named [[Corybas (mythology)|Corybas]] with [[Cybele]].<ref>Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#49.2 5.49.2]</ref>