This article is about the Greek god. For other uses, see Zagreus (disambiguation).
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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Zagreus (Greek: Ζαγρεύς) was a god sometimes identified with an Orphic Dionysus, a son of Zeus and Persephone, who was dismembered by the Titans and reborn.[1] In the earliest mention of Zagreus, he is paired with Gaia and called the "highest" god, though perhaps only in reference to the gods of the underworld. Aeschylus, however, links Zagreus with Hades, possibly as Hades' son, or as Hades himself.[2] Noting "Hades' identity as Zeus' katachthonios alter ego", Timothy Gantz postulated that Zagreus, originally the son of Hades and Persephone, later merged with the Orphic Dionysus, the son of Zeus and Persephone.[3]
^Gantz, p. 118; Hard, p. 35; Grimal, s.v. Zagreus, p. 456.
^Sommerstein, p. 237 n. 1; Gantz, p. 118; Smyth, p. 459.
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summaries see Morford, p. 311; Hard, p. 35; March, s.v. Zagreus, p. 788; Grimal, s.v. Zagreus, p. 456; Burkert 1985, pp. 297–298; Guthrie, p. 82; also...
apparently her husband), or a son of Persephone, identical with Dionysus Zagreus, or a son of Dionysus. During the Greco-Persian Wars, when the Attic countryside...
who eats off all the flesh of the corpses, leaving only their bones. Zagreus was considered by some ancient authors as an underworld god. In the Greek...
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the video game Hades. She is a boss and a potential romance partner to Zagreus, the main character. Megaera is one of the three antagonists in the video...
Athenagoras, Legatio Pro Christianis 20.2]; Meisner, p. 134. Grimal, s.v. Zagreus, p. 466; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 6.155. Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.21-23. Hard...
the protagonist, Zagreus, must traverse in his attempts to escape the Underworld. In the game, Elysium is an ethereal realm where Zagreus defeats the spirits...
Dionysus is called Zagreus. Nonnus does not present the conception as virginal; rather, the editor's notes say that Zeus swallowed Zagreus' heart, and visited...
video game Hades, she is one of three possible area bosses preventing Zagreus from leaving Tartarus. Family tree of the Greek gods "The Furies in Greek...
mystery cults. The orgion is in particular a cult ceremony of Dionysos (or Zagreus), celebrated widely in Arcadia, featuring "unrestrained" masked dances...
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