Editing Iacchus (section)

==Name and origin==
Iacchus seems to have originated as the personification of the cultic exclamation, ''Iacche'', cried out by participants during the Eleusinian procession,<ref>Harrison, [https://archive.org/stream/prolegomenatostu00harr#page/413/mode/2up p. 413]; Foucart, [https://archive.org/stream/lesmystresdl00foucuoft#page/110/mode/2up pp. 110&ndash;113]; Persson, [https://archive.org/stream/MN40011ucmf_0#page/n167/mode/2up p. 151]; Guthrie, [https://books.google.com/books?id=T0a749gm0IgC&pg=PA287 pp. 287&ndash;288]; Mylonas, [https://books.google.com/books/princeton?id=syzWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA238 p. 238]; Versnel, p. 26; Clinton 1974, p. 96; Grimal, s.v. Iacchus; Graf 2005, "Iaccus"; Athanassakis and Wolkow, [https://books.google.com/books?id=TTo3r8IHy0wC&pg=PA149 p. 149]; Guía, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FmTnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA112 p. 112], who asserts that "the figure of Iacchos probably originated in Athens as a ritual song or cry, not initially in relation to the mysteries and the Eleusinian festival, but in the context of the agricultural festivals of Dionysos".</ref> with the exclamation itself, having apparently derived from ''ιαχή'' ("cry"), ''ιάχω'' ("to cry").<ref>Versnel, p. 27; Jiménez San Cristóbal 2012, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zmgXMbOtX9cC&pg=PA127 p. 127].</ref> It has been suggested that the cry "iacche’’ over time came to be interpreted as the vocative form of a name "Iacchus".<ref>Versnel, p. 27; Encinas Reguero, p. 350.</ref> 
In addition to being the cultic cry, "iacchus" was also a term for a kind of song or hymn of worship, possibly unassociated with the god.<ref>Jiménez San Cristóbal 2012, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zmgXMbOtX9cC&pg=PA128 p. 128]; Guía, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FmTnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA110 p. 110 n. 46]; [[Henry Liddell|Liddell]] & [[Robert Scott (philologist)|Scott]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D*)%2Fiakxos ''s.v.'' Ἴακχος]; [[Suda]] [http://www.stoa.org/sol-bin/search.pl?login=guest&enlogin=guest&db=REAL&field=adlerhw_gr&searchstr=iota,16 Ἴακχος (iota,16)]. For example see [[Euripides]], ''[[The Trojan Women]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg011.perseus-eng1:1226-1231 1230]: ''νεκρῶν ἴακχον'', where ''ἴακχον'' is used to denote a [[threnody]], a lament for the dead, thus Coleridge translates the line as  "Wail for the dead";  ''[[Cyclops (play)|Cyclops]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg001.perseus-eng1:63-81 68&ndash;71], where the song "Iacchos Iacchos" is sung to Aphrodite; ''Palamedes'' fr. 586 Kannicht [''apud'' [[Strabo]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:10.3.13 10.3.13]] (= fr. 586 Nauck) (Collard and Cropp, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.57.xml pp. 56, 57]), where the word ''ἰάκχοις'', translated by Collard and Cropp as "revel-cries", is used to refer to the sound of Dionysiac tambourines (''τυμπάνων'').</ref>