- Staphylus
:"For the German theologian, see
Friedrich Staphylus . For theskipper butterfly genus , seeStaphylus (butterfly) ".Staphylus is almost always associated withGrapes orwine . InGreek mythology , he was:# The son of wine-god
Dionysus andAriadne . [ [http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/staphylus.html Encyclopedia Mythica - Staphylus] ] In this version the marriage of Dionysus with Ariadne is localized on the island of Naxos nearCrete . They have three sonsOenopion (wine drinker) Staphylus (grape cluster) andEuanthes (the richly blooming).cite book | last = Hermann Steuding, Karl Pomeroy Harrington, Herbert Cushing Tolman | title =Greek and Roman Mythology | publisher =Leach, Shewell, and Sanborn | date =1897 | location =Original from Harvard University | pages =page 68 and 69 (item 92) | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=rF4AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA69&dq=Staphylus+grape&as_brr=1&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA69,M1 | doi = | id = ]
# Theeromenos of Dionysus. "Suda," epsilon.1276 [ [http://www.stoa.org/sol-bin/search.pl?db=REAL&search_method=QUERY&login=guest&enlogin=guest&user_list=LIST&page_num=1&searchstr=Staphylos&field=any&num_per_page=100 Search results for Staphylos at Soda on Line] Sta/fuloj, o( e)rw/menoj Dionu/sou," or, "Stafuloi o eromenoi Dionusou." ]
# The son ofBacchus (Roman name of Dionysus) [In Greek "both votary and god are called Bacchus." (Burkert, "Greek Religion" 1985:162, noting, for the initiate,Euripides , "Bacchantes", 491, for the god, who alone is "Dionysus",Sophocles "Oedipus the King ", 211 and Euripides "Hippolytus", 560.] andAriadne anArgonaut .cite book | last =McClintock | first =John | title =Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature | publisher =Harper & brothers | date =1889 | location = | pages =Page 989 | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=bmLj8A2vQ3YC&pg=PA989&dq=Staphylus&as_brr=1&ie=ISO-8859-1 | doi = | id = ]
# The son ofBacchus andKrigone , where Bacchus assumed the form of a grape which Krigone ate. She immediately realized that she was with child and in time gave birth to a son whom she named Staphylus.
#The father of a daughter namedRhoeo who is a lover toApollo .cite book
last =Müller | first =Karl Otfried Müller | title =Introduction to a Scientific System of Mythology (Translated by John Leitch) | publisher =Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans | date =1844 | location =Original from the University of Michigan | pages =Page 341 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=PXhIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA341&dq=Staphylus+grape&as_brr=1&ie=ISO-8859-1 | doi = | id = ]
#The father of a daughter namedHemithea who was impregnated byLyrcus after Lyrcus had made a Journey to theoracle atDidyma . Staphylus is said to have enticed Lyrcus into to much drinking of wine and then when his senses were dulled by drunkenness united him with his daughter Hemithea.cite book | last =Longus, John Maxwell Edmonds (contributor), Parthenius, (Translated by George Thornley and Stephen Gaselee) | title ="Daphnis & Chloe" and (dual books under one cover) "The Love Romances Of Parthenius And Other Fragments" | publisher =G.P. Putnam's Sons | date =1916 | location =Original from Harvard University | pages = pages 259 to 263 | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=0b2iZ-ry6iYC&pg=PA261&dq=Staphylus&lr=&as_brr=1&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA261,M1 | doi = | id = ]
#The father of a son namedBotrys both of whom held court in their palace atAssyria .cite book | last =Morgan | first =Thomas | title =Romano-British Mosaic Pavements: A History of Their Discovery and... | publisher =Pavements, Mosaic | date =1886 | location =Original from the University of Michigan | pages = pages 18 and 19 | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=p_FLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA19&dq=Staphylus+grape&as_brr=1&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA18,M1 | doi = | id = ]
#The founder of the colony of Peparthos on the island ofSkopelos in the NorthernSporades island chain. [ [http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/staphylus.html Encyclopedia Mythica - Staphylus] ]ee also
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Rhoeo
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