Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Erigone.
The gallery
The Sleep of Erigone
Jean-Baptiste Aubry-Lecomte (after Girodet), c. 1820s
Lithograph in the Musée Carnavalet after Girodet's erotic-idyllic Erigone: Icarius' daughter asleep among vines — the Attic girl whom Dionysus loved before her father's murder and her own hanging grief.
Erigone Ensnared by Dionysus
Unknown (after classical types), c. 18th–19th century
Wellcome Collection print: Erigone reaches for grapes as Dionysus ensnares her in the vine — the seduction that precedes Icarius' gift of wine to the shepherds and the daughter's later suicide.
Erigone with Grapes (after Guido Reni)
Unknown (after Guido Reni), c. 17th–18th century
Metropolitan Museum print after Reni: Erigone leans over a platter of grapes — the Attic heroine reduced to Bacchic beauty, still named for Icarius' daughter whose dog Maera found the unburied body.
In play
Erigone
Daughter of Icarius of Attica; after finding her murdered father she hanged herself — catasterized with Maera, and remembered in the Attic Aiora festival.
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Ovid and the mythographers keep Erigone's grief in the Dionysus–Icarius cycle — wine, murder, and a daughter's rope among the Attic hills.