Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Iasion.
In play
WORK · c. 700 BCREAD MORE ↗
Theogony (Demeter and Iasion)
Hesiod
Hesiod’s Theogony tells how Demeter lay with Iasion in a thrice-ploughed field and bore Plutus — until Zeus struck the Samothracian lover with a thunderbolt.
WORK · c. 8th century BCREAD MORE ↗
Odyssey V (Calypso on Demeter and Iasion)
Homer
Calypso cites Demeter’s love for Iasion among the gods’ harsh jealousy of goddesses who take mortal partners — Homer’s brief dossier of the thunderbolt death.