In Greek mythology, the name Eleuther[pronunciation?] (Ancient Greek: Ἐλευθήρ) may refer to:
- Eleuther, one of the Curetes, was said to have been the eponym of the towns Eleutherae and Eleuthernae in Crete.[1]
- Eleuther, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene,[2] Nonacris[3] or by unknown woman. He and his brother Lebadus were the only not guilty of the abomination prepared for Zeus, and fled to Boeotia.[4]
- Eleuther, a variant of the name Eleutherios, early Greek god who was the son of Zeus and probably an alternate name of Dionysus.[5]
- Eleuther, son of Apollo and Aethusa.[6] He is renowned for having an excellent singing voice, which earned him a victory at the Pythian games,[7] and for having been the first to erect a statue of Dionysus,[8] as well as for having given his name to Eleutherae.[9] His sons were Iasius[10] (Iasion[11]) and Pierus.[citation needed] He also had several daughters, who spoke impiously of the image of Dionysus wearing a black aegis, and were driven mad by the god; as a remedy, Eleuther, in accordance with an oracle, established a cult of "Dionysus of the Black Aegis".[12]
In information technology, Eleuther refers to EleutherAI, an artificial intelligence nonprofit.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Eleutherai, Eleuthernai
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
- ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6
- ^ Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 39
- ^ Kerényi, Karl. 1976. Dionysus. Trans. Ralph Manheim, Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691029156, 9780691029153
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.1
- ^ Pausanias, 10.7.3
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 225
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Eleutherai
- ^ Pausanias, 9.20.1
- ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai 123.6
- ^ Suida, s.v. melanaigida Dionyson