Editing Iacchus (section)

==Genealogy==
Iacchus, when identified with Dionysus, as he was at the [[Lenaia]] in Athens (see above), was considered to be the son of Zeus and Semele,<ref>Scholiast on [[Aristophanes]], ''[[The Frogs|Frogs]]'' 479  (Rutherford, [https://archive.org/stream/scholiaaristopha01ruthuoft#page/332/mode/2up p. 332]).</ref> and when identified with [[Zagreus|Dionysus Zagreus]], was considered to be the son [[Zeus]] and Persephone.<ref>Parker, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ff51JeXhHXUC&pg=PA358 p. 358]; Grimal, s.v. Iacchus.</ref> However, several sources associate Iacchus (or Dionysus/Iacchus) with Demeter, either explicitly or implicitly, as her son.<ref>Marcovich, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nh8VAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA23 p. 23]; Parker, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ff51JeXhHXUC&pg=PA358 p. 358]; Graf 1974, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PDoL_7pzJhEC&pg=PA198 p. 198].</ref> The earliest such source, a 4th-century BC vase fragment at Oxford, shows Demeter holding the child Dionysus on her lap.<ref>Marcovich, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nh8VAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA23 p. 23]; Bianchi, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PxOeT0NWzwoC&pg=PA18 p. 18]; Graf 1974, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PDoL_7pzJhEC&pg=PA198 p. 198]; [[Ashmolean Museum]] at Oxford, Inv. 1956-355.</ref> [[Diodorus Siculus]] tells us about a "second Dionysus" (i.e. [[Zagreus|Dionysus Zagreus]]) who "the writers of myths relate, was born to Zeus by Persephonê, though some say it was Demeter".<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3E*.html#64 3.64.1].</ref> By the 1st-century BC, Demeter suckling Iacchus had become such a commonplace, that the Latin poet [[Lucretius]] could use it as an apparently recognizable example of a lover's euphemism.<ref>Parker, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ff51JeXhHXUC&pg=PA358 p. 358 n. 139]; [[Lucretius]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0550.phi001.perseus-eng1:4.1141-4.1191 4.1168&ndash;1169]. [[Arnobius]], ''Adversus Gentes'' (also called ''Adversus Nationes'') [https://archive.org/stream/thesevenbooksofa00arnouoft#page/n183/mode/2up 3.10 (p. 157)] referring to the Lucretius verse, lists "the full-breasted Cerses nursing Iaccus" as a sight "the mind longs" to see. Compare with [[Photius]], [https://dcthree.github.io/photios-images/#nanogallery/photios/pages/02_00215_0 s.v. Ἴακχος] and [[Suda]], [http://www.stoa.org/sol-bin/search.pl?login=guest&enlogin=guest&db=REAL&field=adlerhw_gr&searchstr=iota,16 s.v. Ἴακχος (iota,16)], which identify Iacchus with ''Διόνυσος ἐπὶ τῷ μαστῷ'' ('Dionysus at the breast').</ref> A scholiast on the 2nd-century AD [[Aelius Aristides|Aristides]], explicitly names Demeter as Iacchus' mother.<ref>Parker, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ff51JeXhHXUC&pg=PA358 p. 358 n. 139]; scholiast on [[Aelius Aristides|Aristides]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=6N1EAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA648 Vol. 3, p. 648 213, 18 Dindorf].</ref>

By other accounts apparently, Iacchus was the husband of Demeter.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA134 p. 134]; Grimal, s.v. Iacchus; Tripp, s.v. Iacchus; Rose, ''Oxford Classical Dictionary'' s.v. Iacchus; scholiast on [[Aristophanes]], ''[[The Frogs|Frogs]]'' 324 (Rutherford, [https://archive.org/stream/scholiaaristopha01ruthuoft#page/316/mode/2up p. 316]).</ref> And according to [[Nonnus]], Iacchus was the son of Dionysus and the nymph [[Aura (mythology)|Aura]], who was the daughter of the [[Titan (mythology)|Titan]] [[Lelantos]] and the [[Oceanid]] [[Periboea|Periboia]] (or [[Cybele]]?).<ref>Bernabé and García-Gasco, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sLW9CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 p. 109]; [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/n61/mode/2up 1.26&ndash;28 I pp. 4, 5], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft#page/442/mode/2up 48.245&ndash;247 III pp. 440&ndash;443], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft#page/484/mode/2up 48.848&ndash;968 III pp. 484&ndash;493]. At 48.245&ndash;247, Nonnus seems to imply that Aura is the daughter of Lelantos by his wife Periboia, however at 1.27&ndash;28, he calls Aura the "daughter of Cybele".</ref>