Iasion
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Orations
Mythical figure admired for his beauty.
and some they admired for beauty, others for wealth, like Iasion and Cinyras;
and about Adonis or Iasion or the like, all who obtained surpassing repute for their form, we hear nothing except about their beauty.
Theogony
A mortal hero, loved by Demeter, father of Plutus.
Demeter, bright goddess, was joined in sweet love with the hero Iasion in a thrice-ploughed fallow in the rich land of Crete, and bore Plutus, a kindly god who goes everywhere over land and the sea's wide back, and he makes rich the man who finds him and into whose hands he comes, bestowing great wealth upon him.
Odyssey
Mortal loved by Demeter and killed by Zeus's thunder-bolts, recalled by Calypso as a precedent.
So again when Demeter fell in love with Iasion, and yielded to him in a thrice ploughed fallow field, Zeus came to hear of it before so long and killed Iasion with his thunder-bolts.