Son of Dionysus and Ariadne, born on Lemnos after the god carried the Cretan princess from Naxos — his name lives in Peparethos, the olive-rich isle of the Northern Sporades.1
I
When Dionysus fell in love with Ariadne and carried her off, he brought her to Lemnos and begat Thoas, Staphylus, Oenopion, and Peparethus.2
II
Ovid names Peparethos among the Cycladic and Sporades isles that gave no aid to Minos when he sailed against Oenopia — the olive-bearing island that bears Peparethus' name.3
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