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NAXOS (Island) KYKLADES
...And wishing (Dionysus) to be ferried across from Icaria to Naxos he hired a
pirate ship of Tyrrhenians. But when they had put him on board, they sailed past
Naxos and made for Asia, intending to sell him. Howbeit, he turned the mast and
oars into snakes, and filled the vessel with ivy and the sound of flutes. And
the pirates went mad, and leaped into the sea, and were turned into dolphins.
Thus men perceived that he was a god and honored him; and having brought up his
mother from Hades and named her Thyone, he ascended up with her to heaven (Apollod. 3.5.3)
This extract is from: Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer, 1921). Cited Mar 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
Acoetes (Akoites), according to Ovid (Met. iii. 582, &c.) the son of a poor fisherman in Maeonia, who served as pilot in a ship. After landing at the island of Naxos, some of the sailors brought with them on board a beautiful sleeping boy, whom they had found in the island and whom they wished to take with them; but Acoetes, who recognised in the boy the god Bacchus, dissuaded them from it, but in vain. When the ship had reached the open sea, the boy awoke, and desired to be carried back to Naxos. The sailors promised to do so, but did not keep their word. Hereupon the god showed himself to them in his own majesty: vines began to twine round the vessel, tigers appeared, and the sailors, seized with madness, jumped into the sea and perished. Acoetes alone was saved and conveyed back to Naxos, where he was initiated in the Bacchic mysteries and became a priest of the god. Hyginus (Fab. 134), whose story on the whole agrees with that of Ovid, and all the other writers who mention this adventure of Bacchus, call the crew of the ship Tyrrhenian pirates, and derive the name of the Tyrrhenian sea from them. (Comp. Horn. Hymn. in Bacch: Apollod. iii. 5.3; Seneca, Oed. 449.)
Alcimedon. One of the Tyrrhenian sailors, who wanted to carry off the infant Dionysus from Naxos, but was metamorphosed, with his companions, into a dolphin. (Ov. Met. iii. 618; Hygin. Fab. 134)
Eratosthenes and others give the following reason for the dolphin’s being among the stars. Amphitrite, when Neptunus [Poseidon] desired to wed her and she preferred to keep her virginity, fled to Atlas. Neptunus sent many to seek her out, among them a certain Delphinus, who, in his wandering s among the islands, came at last to the maiden, persuaded her to marry Neptunus, and himself took charge of the wedding. In return for this service, Neptunus put the form of a dolphin among the constellations. Hyginus Astronomica 2.17
This constellation is generally associated with Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos of Crete.
Artemis killed the Aloads in Naxos
Son of Dionysus and Ariadne, king of Lemnos
Oenopion, son of Dionysus by Ariadne
son of Dionysus and Ariadne
Staphylus, son of Dionysus, in the Argo
son of Dionysus by Ariadne
(Anios). Son of Apollo by Rhoeo or Creusa, whose father, Staphylus of Naxos, a son of Dionysus and Ariadne, committed her to the sea in a box. She was carried to Delos, and there gave birth to her son Anius. Apollo taught him divination, and made him his priest and king of Delos. His son Thasus, like Linus and Actaeon, was torn to pieces by dogs, after which no dogs were allowed in the island. His daughters by the nymph Dorippe, being descendants of Dionysus, had the gift of turning anything they pleased into wine, corn, or oil; but when Agamemnon, on his way to Troy, wished to take them from their father by force, Dionysus changed them into doves.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Mar 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Leucippus. A son of Naxus, and father of Smerdius, was king of Naxos. (Diod. v. 51)
Aegle, a nymph, daughter of Panopeus, who was beloved by Theseus, and for whom he forsook Ariadne. (Plut. Thes. 20; Athen. xiii.)
A Thracian, the son of Boreas. His brother Lycurgus, whose life he had attempted, banished him, and he settled on the island of Strongyle or Naxos. Finding here no wives for himself and his companions, he carried off some women from Thessaly, while they were celebrating a sacrifice to Dionysus. One of these, Coronis, whom he had forced to be his wife, prayed to Dionysus for vengeance. The god drove him mad, and he threw himself into a well.
Butes (Boutes). A son of Boreas, a Thracian, was hostile towards his step-brother Lycurgus, and therefore compelled by his father to emigrate. He accordingly went with a band of colonists to the island of Strongyle, afterwards called Naxos. But as he and his companions had no women, they made predatory excursions, and also came to Thessaly, where they carried off the women who were just celebrating a festival of Dionysus. Butes himself took Coronis; but she invoked Dionysus, who struck Butes with madness, so that he threw himself into a well. (Diod. v. 50.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
. . The picture has another points of contact with the mythology of Dionysos on Naxos. Several ancient writers tell us of a spring of Naxos that miraculously produced wine like the spring represented in the cup. This cup also adds further evidence to the Eastern source of the connection between Dionysos and panthers.
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