Ino
mythological figure · 7 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages
in the texts
Bacchae
Daughter of Kadmos and aunt of Pentheus, named as a leader of one of the bands of maddened Theban Bacchae.
I saw three companies of dancing women, one of which Autonoe led, the second your mother Agave, and the third Ino.
Ino began to work on the other side, tearing his flesh, while Autonoe and the whole crowd of the Bacchae pressed on.
For I saw Autonoe, who once bore Actaeon to Aristaeus, and Ino with her, still mad in the thicket, wretched creatures.
On the Nature of the Gods
Daughter of Cadmus, deified as Leucothea, whose divine status Cotta uses to interrogate the status of her extended kin
What, then — shall Ino be held a goddess, and called Leucothea by the Greeks and Matuta by us, since she is the daughter of Cadmus, while Circe, Pasiphae, and Aeetes, born of Perseis the daughter of Ocean, with the Sun for their father, shall not be held in the number of the gods?
49. Or shall Amphiaraus be a god, and Trophonius? Our tax-farmers, indeed, when there were in Boeotia lands exempted by the censor's law as belonging to the immortal gods, denied that any were immortal who had once been men. But if these are gods, surely Erectheus is, whose shrine and priest we have seen at Athens. And if we make him a god, what can we doubt either of Codrus or of the rest who fel …
Protrepticus
Goddess or heroine identified in art by her veil, listed among figures recognizable from statues and paintings.
Dionysus from his dress, Hephaestus from his craft, Deo from her calamity, Ino from her veil, Poseidon from his trident, Zeus from his swan;
Medea
A mythical queen who, maddened by Hera, killed her children and then drowned herself; invoked by the Chorus as the sole precedent for Medea's crime.
Chorus:
Can there be any deed of horror left to follow this?
The Histories
Mythical figure who conspires with Athamas against Phrixus.
When Xerxes had come to Alus in Achaea, his guides, desiring to inform him of all they knew, told him the story which is related in that country concerning the worship of Laphystian Zeus, namely how Athamas son of Aeolus plotted Phrixus ' death with Ino, and further, how the Achaeans by an oracle's bidding compel Phrixus descendants to certain tasks.
Theogony
A daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia.
And Harmonia, the daughter of golden Aphrodite, bore to Cadmus Ino and Semele and fair-cheeked Agave and Autonoe whom long haired Aristaeus wedded, and Polydorus also in rich-crowned Thebes.
Olympian
Daughter of Cadmus, granted immortal life among the Nereids in the sea.
And they say that even in the sea, among the ocean-daughters of Nereus, immortal life is granted to Ino for all time.