Iasion

Iasion
Iasion
Founder of the Mystic rites
Other names	Iasus, Eetion
Abode	(1) Samothrace or; (2) Italy
Personal information
Parents	(1) Zeus and Electra; (2) Corythus and Electra; (3) Ilithyius
Siblings	(1) & (2) Dardanus, Harmonia; and (1) Emathion (possibly)
Consort	(i) Demeter; (ii) Cybele
Children	(i) Plutus and Philomelus; (ii) Corybas

In Greek mythology, Iasion /aɪˈeɪʒən/ (Ancient Greek: Ἰασίων, romanized: Iasíōn^[1]) or Iasus /ˈaɪəsəs/ (Ancient Greek: Ἴασος, romanized: Íasos^[2]), also called Eetion^[3]^[4] /iːˈɛʃən/ (Ancient Greek: Ἠετίων, romanized: Ēetíōn), was the founder of the mystic rites on the island of Samothrace.

^ gen.: Ἰασίωνος
^ gen.: Ἰάσου
^ Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 121 Most, pp. 206, 207 [= fr. 177 Merkelbach-West = P. Oxy. 1359 fr. 2 (Grenfell and Hunt, p. 53)].
^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.916 with Hellanicus as the authority; Scholia on Euripides, Phoenissae 1129; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 219