Son of Zeus and Electra daughter of Atlas, brother of Dardanus; on Samothrace he loved Demeter and was slain by Zeus' thunderbolt, whereupon Dardanus crossed to the mainland.1
Apollodorus makes Electra, daughter of Atlas, bear to Zeus two sons, Iasion and Dardanus. Iasion loved Demeter, and in attempting to defile the goddess he was killed by a thunderbolt; grieving, Dardanus left Samothrace for the opposite mainland.2
Homer tells how Calypso recalled that fair-tressed Demeter, yielding to passion, lay with Iasion in the thrice-ploughed fallow land, and Zeus was not long without knowledge thereof but smote him with the bright thunderbolt and slew him.3
Hesiod names Iasion among the heroes with whom Demeter lay in love in Crete in the thrice-ploughed field, and bore Plutus, a kindly god who enriches whomsoever he visits — though the place of the union shifts with the teller.4
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