ERIGONE  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology, daughter of Icarius, the See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero of the See also:

• ATTIC (i.e. "in the Attic style ")

Attic deme Icaria . Her See also:

• FATHER

father, who had been taught by See also:

• DIONYSUS (probably = " son of Zeus," from & Os and vv(7os, a Thracian word for " son ")

Dionysus to make See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine, gave some to some shepherds, who became intoxicated . Their companions, thinking they had been poisoned, killed Icarius and buried him under a See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree on See also:

• MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount See also:

• HYMETTUS (Ital. Monte Matto, hence the modern name Trello Vouni)

Hymettus (or threw his See also:

• BODY

body into a well) . Erigone, guided by her faithful See also:

• DOG

dog Maera, found, his See also:

• GRAVE

grave, and hanged herself on the tree . Dionysus sent a See also:

• PLAGUE (in Gr. Xotµos; in Lat. pestis, pestilentia)

plague on the See also:

• LAND

land, and all the maidens of See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens, in a See also:

• FIT

fit of madness, hanged themselves like Erigone . Icarius, Erigone and Maera were set among the stars as See also:

• BOOTES (Gr. 006M ?S, a ploughman, from /3oui, an ox)

Bootes (or See also:

• ARCTURUS

Arcturus), See also:

• VIRGO (" the Virgin ")

Virgo and Procyon . The festival called Aeora (the " See also:

• SWING, DAVID (1830-1894)

swing ") was subsequently instituted to propitiate Icarius and Erigone . Various small images (in See also:

• LAT

Lat. See also:

• OSCILLA

oscilla) were suspended on trees and swung backwards and forwards, and offerings of See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit were made (See also:

• HYGINUS
• HYGINUS (surnamed GROMATICUS, from gruma, a surveyor's measuring-rod)
• HYGINUS, GAIUS JULIUS

Hyginus, Fab . 130, Poet. astron. ii . 4; See also:

• APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus iii . 14) . The See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story was probably intended to explain the origin of these oscilla, by which Dionysus, as See also:

• GOD

god of trees (Dendrites), was propitiated, and the baneful See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of the dog-See also:

• STAR

star averted (see also OSCILLA) .