Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen The Shepherds.
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Icarius (Athenian)
Attic host of Dionysus who first shared wine — the shepherds, thinking themselves poisoned, kill him and hide the body that Erigone will find.
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Erigone (daughter of Icarius)
Erigone's search and suicide begin from the shepherds' crime — the Aiora rites remember the murder that emptied Icarius' house.
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Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus' Attic digression — the herdsmen who beat Icarius to death after the first wine, mistaking drunkenness for a charm.