Iasion

Demigod son of Zeus by the Pleiad Electra and brother of Dardanus, founder-figure of the Samothracian mysteries of the Great Gods. He lay with Demeter in a thrice-ploughed field on Crete and fathered Plutus, the god of wealth (Odyssey 5; Theogony 969-974); for the union Zeus struck him dead with a thunderbolt.

Parentage

• Zeus
• Electra

Domains

• samothracian mysteries
• agriculture

Powers

• Founds and teaches the Samothracian Mysteries
• Begets agricultural Wealth on Demeter

Relations

• sibling: Dardanus
• lover: Demeter

Sources

• Homer, Odyssey 5.125-128; Hesiod, Theogony 969-974; Apollodorus 3.12.1; Diodorus Siculus 5.48-49; Ovid, Amores 3.10.25-28
• Apollodorus 3.12.1; Hellanicus FGrHist 4 F 23 (son of Zeus and Electra)