In Greek mythology, Iasion / aɪ ˈ eɪ ʒ ə n / (Ancient Greek: Ἰασίων, romanized: Iasíōn) or Iasus / ˈ aɪ ə s ə s / (Ancient Greek: Ἴασος, romanized: Íasos), also called Eetion [1] [2] / iː ˈ ɛ ʃ ə n / (Ancient Greek: Ἠετίων, romanized: Ēetíōn), was the …

In Greek mythology Iasion was an agricultural hero and the springtime consort of Demeter in the Samothracian Mysteries. Iasion lay with the goddess in a thrice-ploughed field during the wedding celebrations of Cadmus and Harmonia on the island of Samothrace.

Iasion, in Greek mythology, according to Homer and Hesiod, Cretan youth loved by Demeter, the corn goddess, who lay with him in a fallow field that had been thrice plowed. Their son was Plutus, the wealth within the soil.

Iasion was a mortal character from the tales of Greek mythology who some call a son of Zeus, a lover of Demeter and a man struck down by one of Zeus’ thunderbolts. It is generally considered that Iasion was the son of Zeus and the Pleiad nymph Electra, and thus brother to the more famous Dardanus.

Iasion was the son of Zeus and the nymph Electra in Greek mythology. Other sources say that his parents were either Zeus and Hemera, or Corythus and Electra. He was the one who started the rituals on the island of Samothrace. He had three sons with the goddess Demeter, named Ploutos, Philomelus and Korybas.

Or Jasion, also called Iasius, was, according to some, a son of Zeus and Electra, the daughter of Atlas, and a brother of Dardanus; 1 but others called him a son of Corythus and Electra, of Zeus and the nymph Hemera, or of Ilithyius, or of Minos and the nymph Pyronia. 2 At the wedding of his sister Harmonia, Demeter fell in love with him, and in...

Iasion （ Ἰασίων ), also called Iasius, was, according to some, a son of Zeus and Electra, the daughter of Atlas, and a brother of Dardanus ( Apollod. 3.12.1 ; Serv. ad Aen. 1.384 ; Hes. Th. 970 ; Ov.

Demeter was the Olympian goddess of agriculture, grain and bread. This page describes the family and consorts of the goddess including Zeus, Poseidon and the mortal Iasion.

In Greek mythology, Iasion (Ἰασίων, gen.: Ἰασίωνος) or Iasus (Ἴασος, gen.: Ἰάσου) was usually the son of Electra and Zeus and brother of Dardanus. Iasion founded the mystic rites on the island of Samothrace.

Iasion was loved by *Demeter, slept with her ‘in a thrice-ploughed field’, and was killed by *Zeus' thunderbolt (Hom. Od. 5. 125–8). In *Hesiod's Theogony this happened in *Crete, and their child was *Plutus, the earth's wealth (969–74). This suggests the agricultural symbolism of the myth.