Lysius

I.e. the Deliverer, a surname of Dionysus, under which he was worshiped at Corinth, where there was a carved image of the god, the whole figure of which was gilt, while the face was painted red.1 He was also worshiped at Sicyon, where the Theban Phanes was said to have introduced the god,2 and at Thebes. In the last-mentioned place he had a sanctuary near one of the gates, and there was a story that the god had received the surname from the fact of his once having delivered Theban prisoners from the hands of the Thracians in the neighborhood of Haliartus.3

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 2.5.
  2. ibid. ii, 7.6.
  3. ibid. ix, 16.4; Orphica. Hymn 49, 2 ff.

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.