Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Icarius.
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Icarius (Athenian)
Attic host of Dionysus who shared the first wine — murdered by shepherds, mourned by Erigone, and set among the stars.
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Erigone (daughter of Icarius)
Daughter who finds her father's body and hangs herself — the Aiora rites and Virgo still remember her grief.
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Boötes
The constellation tradition that places Icarius in the northern sky — wine's first teacher as the celestial herdsman.