Lelantos

Short description: Minor character in the Dionysiaca

Lelantos or Lelantus (Ancient Greek:) is a minor mythological figure that appears in the late epic Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis, written in the early fifth century AD.

## Contents

* 1 Dionysiaca
* 2 See also
* 3 Citations
* 4 General and cited references
* 5 External links

## Dionysiaca

Lelantos is the Titan father of the nymph Aura ("Breeze"),[1] who was a hunting companion of Artemis and the mother, by Dionysus, of Iacchus, a minor deity connected with the Eleusinian Mysteries.[2] Lelantos was married to the Oceanid nymph Periboea, whom Nonnus seems to imply was Aura's mother,[3] although elsewhere, he calls Aura the "daughter of Cybele", the Phrygian mother-goddess.[4] Lelantos's own parentage is not touched upon.

## See also

* Leto
* Lethe
* Sangarius

## Citations

1. ↑ Grimal, s.v. Aura, p. 71; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.238-247 (III pp. 440-443), 48.421 (III pp. 454-455); 48.444 (III pp. 456-457).
2. ↑ Bernabé and García-Gasco, p. 109; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.26–28 (I pp. 4, 5), 48.848–968 (III pp. 484–493)
3. ↑ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.245–247 (III pp. 440–443)
4. ↑ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.26–28 (I pp. 4, 5)

## General and cited references

* Bernabé and García-Gasco, "Nonnus and Dionysiac-Orphic Religion" in Brill's Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis, editor Domenico Accorinti, BRILL, 2016. ISBN 9789004310698.
* Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1.
* Nonnus, Dionysiaca; translated by Rouse, W H D, I Books I-XV. Loeb Classical Library No. 344, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940. Internet Archive
* Nonnus, Dionysiaca; translated by Rouse, W H D, III Books XXXVI-XLVIII. Loeb Classical Library No. 346, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940. Internet Archive

## External links

* LELANTOS from The Theoi Project

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