Iacchus
deity figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the 'Iacchus' cry · the boy Iacchus
in the texts
Protrepticus
Child deity present at the Baubo episode and invoked in the Eleusinian mystery rites.
the light convicts your Iacchus.
and there was the boy Iacchus, and laughing he kept tossing his hand beneath the bosom of Baubo;
The Histories
The ritual cry of the Eleusinian Mysteries, personified as a divine voice, heard as a portent of the coming destruction of Xerxes's fleet.
The voice which you hear is the ‘Iacchus’ they cry at this festival.
If it descends upon the Peloponnese, the king himself and his army on the mainland will be endangered.
The cry seemed to be the “Iacchus” of the mysteries, and when Demaratus, ignorant of the rites of Eleusis, asked him what was making this sound, Dicaeus said, “Demaratus, there is no way that some great disaster will not befall the king's army.
Symposium
A deity associated with Callias' priestly service and a campaign against the barbarian.
you are of aristocratic birth, of Erechtheus’ line, a priest serving the gods who under the leadership of Iacchus took the field against the barbarian;