Edonus

The mythical ancestor of the Edones in Thrace.1 The name is therefore used also in the sense of "Thracian," and as Thrace was one of the principal seats of the worship of Dionysus, it further signifies "Dionysiac" or "Bacchantic."2

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References

Notes

  1. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἠδωνιοί.
  2. Ovid. Remedia Amoris, 593; Horace. Carmina ii, 7. 27.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.