Ino

In the Greek Mythology, Ino (in Greek old Ἰνώ / Inố ), girl of Cadmos, founder of the famous city of Thèbes, and Harmony, is the second wife of Athamas, of which it has two wire, Léarchos and Mélicerte.

Myth

When Penthée succeeds Cadmos on the throne of Thèbes, he is opposed to the introduction dionysiaque worship into his kingdom. Whereas it is hidden in a tree of the Mont Cithéron for épier the orgy, it is discovered and put in parts by the Ménades, with the head of which figure his/her own mother Agavé and her two aunts, Ino and Autonoé. It is the subject the tragedy of Euripide, Bacchantes .

After its marriage with Athamas, Ino plots against his/her beautiful-children, Phrixos and Hellé. Those are constrained to escape to him from going to take refuge in Colchide by enfourchant a winged ram with the Golden Fleece.

Dionysos is entrusted to him by Hermes to withdraw it from the jealousy of Héra, but this one finds it and strikes madness Ino and Athamas. Taking his Léarchos son for a stag, he pursues it and kills it.

Zeus orders then, with Hermes to entrust to him the education of his/her son Dionysos whom it has of Sole, sister of Ino, died by giving him the day and which will become later the god of the vine and the fruits. It attracts itself thus the anger of Héra, woman of Zeus, which is avenged for it while making her husband insane furious: this last kills their Léarchos son in an access of rage. To save the second, Zeus made of it a goddess and also changes her son into divinity of the sea. Under its new name of Leucothée , it becomes protective sailors and shipwrecked men and the goddess of the calm seas, living the marine depths.

Homère the watch in particular saving Ulysses at the time of the shipwreck of its raft (it gives him its veil to maintain it with flood).

Sources

(I, 9,1-2; III, 4,2).
(III, 39; III, 48).
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(v. 976).
(V, 333 and suiv.).
(IV; CCXXIV).
(V, 198).
( Olympic , II, 51-60; Pythiques , XI, 2).

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