Editing Iacchus (section)

===Statue, temple, and feast day===
[[File:The Pompeion in Kerameikos Cemetery on March 1, 2021.jpg|thumb|The ruins of the Pompeion]]
There was a statue of Iacchus kept in a temple at Athens. According to the 2nd-century AD geographer [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], the statue held a torch and was by the Athenian sculptor [[Praxiteles]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.2.4 1.2.4], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.37.4 1.37.4].</ref> A passage from [[Aristophanes]]' ''[[The Frogs]]'' (405 BC) suggests it wore a crown of myrtle.<ref>Mylonas, [https://books.google.com/books/princeton?id=syzWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA253 p. 253]; [[Aristophanes]], ''[[The Frogs|Frogs]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg009.perseus-eng1:323-336 323&ndash;330].</ref> According to Pausanias, the statue was kept in a temple of Demeter located near the [[Dipylon]] gate, the main entrance to ancient Athens. The temple was perhaps the one that Plutarch referred to as the "so called Iaccheion".<ref>Jiménez San Cristóbal 2012, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zmgXMbOtX9cC&pg=PA129 pp. 129&ndash;130];  Graf 2005, "Iacchus"; Mylonas, [https://books.google.com/books/princeton?id=syzWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA253 pp. 253&ndash;254]; Farnell, [https://archive.org/stream/cultsofgreekstat03farnuoft#page/n167/mode/2up p. 147]; [[Plutarch]], ''Aristides'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg024.perseus-eng1:27.3 27.3].</ref> Nearby was the Pompeion, the building which was the assembly point for the procession celebrating the [[Eleusinian Mysteries]]. According to the 10th-century [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] encyclopedia the ''[[Suda]]'', Iacchus was also the name of his "feast" day, presumably the day that Iacchus was carried to Eleusis as part of the Eleusinian procession.<ref>[[Suda]], s.v. [http://www.stoa.org/sol-bin/search.pl?login=guest&enlogin=guest&db=REAL&field=adlerhw_gr&searchstr=iota,16 Ἴακχος (iota,16)]; Rose, ''Oxford Classical Dictionary'' s.v. Iacchus; Harrison, [https://archive.org/stream/prolegomenatostu00harr#page/542/mode/2up p. 542]; Farnell, [https://archive.org/stream/cultsofgreekstat03farnuoft#page/n167/mode/2up p. 147].</ref>