Editing Iacchus (section)

==The  ''anasyrma'' of Baubo==
Iacchus was possibly involved in an Eleusinian myth concerning Demeter.<ref>Marcovich, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nh8VAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA20 pp. 20&ndash;27]; Olender, [https://books.google.com/books?id=_6qLgVl4uikC&pg=PA85 p. 85 ff.]; Athanassakis and Wolkow, [https://books.google.com/books?id=TTo3r8IHy0wC&pg=PA149 p. 149]; Kerényi 1951, pp. 242&ndash;244.</ref> Following the  abduction by [[Hades]] of her daughter [[Persephone]], Demeter visits Eleusis. Because she is in mourning for her lost daughter, Demeter refuses the offered hospitality of her Eleusinian hosts. Nevertheless, she is somehow made to laugh, and breaking her fast, finally accepts the offered food and drink. There are two versions of the story. In the earliest version, given in the ''[[Homeric Hymn]] to Demeter'', an old servant woman [[Iambe]] makes Demeter laugh by telling her obscene jokes. In an apparent later [[Orphism (religion)|Orphic]] version of the story, the old woman [[Baubo]] makes Demeter laugh by lifting her skirts (an ''[[anasyrma]]'')  thereby exposing her genitals. One account of this second version, suggests the possible involvement of Iacchus.<ref>Farnell, [https://archive.org/stream/cultsofgreekstat03farnuoft#page/n167/mode/2up pp. 147&ndash;148], is dismisive of Iacchus' involvement, saying "It is of no importance that a late and reckless composer of an 'Orphic' hymn chooses to introduce him into the old Eleusinian myth of Baubo", noting that "the soundness of the text may be doubted, see Lobeck, ''Aglaoph.''"</ref> The  2nd-century [[Christian apologist]] [[Clement of Alexandria]], in giving an account of this story, attributes the following lines of verse to [[Orpheus]]:
:This said, she drew aside her robes, and showed
:A sight of shame; child Iacchus was there,
:And laughing, plunged his hand below her breasts.
:Then smiled the goddess, in her heart she smiled,
:And drank the draught from out the glancing cup.<ref>[[Clement of Alexandria]], ''[[Protrepticus (Clement)|Protrepticus]]'' ["Exhortation to the Greeks"] (Butterworth, [https://archive.org/stream/clementofalexand00clem#page/42/mode/2up pp. 42, 43] [= [https://archive.org/stream/orphicorumfragme00orphuoft#page/126/mode/2up Orphic fr. 52 Kern]]. For a discussion regarding the uncertainty of Clement's text, see Marcovich, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nh8VAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA20 pp. 20&ndash;27]. See also O'Higgins, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QAcycx4DyoEC&pg=PA194 p. 194 n. 53].</ref>