Phleon

I.e. the giver of plenty, is a surname of Dionysus, describing the god as promoting the fertility of plants and trees.1 A similar surname of the god is Phlyus (from φλύεν, phlyen).2

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References

Notes

  1. Aelian. Varia Historia iii, 41.
  2. Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, i, 115.

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.