Ino

Mortal Theban princess, second daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia (greek_harmonia, whose own notes name 'Ino' among her children). Wife of Athamas; mother of Learchus and Melicertes; foster-mother of Dionysus. After Athamas' Hera-sent madness she leapt into the sea and was deified as the saving sea-goddess Leucothea (Melicertes → Palaemon). Authored as mortal (matching her existing sister greek_autonoe and the canonical mortal Theban line; her divinity is a post-mortal apotheosis recorded in lifecycle).

Parentage

• Harmonia

Domains

• the sea
• salvation of sailors
• nursing and fosterage

Powers

• Rescues the shipwrecked at sea
• Nurses and shelters the infant Dionysus

Epithets

• Λευκοθέα
• Ἰνὼ Καδμηΐς

Relations

• sibling: Autonoe
• sibling: Semele
• sibling: Agave
• sibling: Polydorus of Thebes

Sources

• Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.4.2-3; Hesiod, Theogony 975-978; Diodorus Siculus 4.2-4
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.464-542; Homer, Odyssey 5.333-353; Pausanias 1.44.7-8, 2.1.3