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Lelantos

Minor character in the Dionysiaca

Summary

Minor character in the Dionysiaca

Lelantos or Lelantus () is a minor mythological figure that appears in the late epic Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis, written in the early fifth century AD.

''Dionysiaca''

Lelantos is the Titan father of the nymph Aura ("Breeze"), who was a hunting companion of Artemis and the mother, by Dionysus, of Iacchus, a minor deity connected with the Eleusinian Mysteries. Lelantos was married to the Oceanid nymph Periboea, whom Nonnus seems to imply was Aura's mother, although elsewhere, he calls Aura the "daughter of Cybele", the Phrygian mother-goddess. Lelantos's own parentage is not touched upon.

Citations

General and cited references

  • Bernabé and García-Gasco, "Nonnus and Dionysiac-Orphic Religion" in Brill's Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis, editor Domenico Accorinti, BRILL, 2016. .
  • Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, .
  • Nonnus, Dionysiaca; translated by Rouse, W H D, I Books I–XV. Loeb Classical Library No. 344, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940. Internet Archive
  • Nonnus, Dionysiaca; translated by Rouse, W H D, III Books XXXVI–XLVIII. Loeb Classical Library No. 346, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940. Internet Archive

References

  1. Grimal, s.v. Aura, p. 71; [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft#page/440/mode/2up 48.238–247 (III pp. 440–443)], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft#page/454/mode/2up 48.421 (III pp. 454–455)]; [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft#page/456/mode/2up 48.444 (III pp. 456–457)].
  2. Bernabé and García-Gasco, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sLW9CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 p. 109]; [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/n61/mode/2up 1.26–28 (I pp. 4, 5)], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft#page/484/mode/2up 48.848–968 (III pp. 484–493])
  3. [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft#page/442/mode/2up 48.245–247 (III pp. 440–443)]
  4. [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/n61/mode/2up 1.26–28 (I pp. 4, 5)]
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