When Poseidon finds out that Odysseus has escaped, he wrecks the raft but, helped by a veil given by the sea nymph Ino, Odysseus swims ashore on Scherie, the island of the Phaeacians.

From what is told in ancient Greek scripts, Arion, although favored by Apollo, is the son of Poseidon and Ino.

A cult of Melicertes of great antiquity, possibly based on pre-Hellenic figures of Ino and Melicertes, was posited by Edouard Will just previous to the site's discovery and refuted by John Hawthorne in 1958.

Pentheus torn apart by Ino ( Greek mythology ) | Ino and Agave ( mythology ) | Agave, lekanis lid, ca.

Phrixus, son of Athamus and Nephele, along with his twin, Helle, were hated by their stepmother, Ino.

His twin sister Helle and he were hated by their stepmother, Ino.

He was a son of Aeolus and Enarete, and sired several children by his first wife, the goddess Nephele, and his other wives Ino and Themisto.

Phrixus and Helle were hated by their stepmother, Ino.

When Athamas returned to his second wife, Ino, Themisto sought revenge by dressing her children in white clothing and Ino's in black.

Phrixus, son of Athamas and Nephele, along with his twin Helle, hated by their stepmother, Ino.

Pentheus torn apart by Agave and Ino.

In the back-story to the heroic tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Phrixus and Helle, twin children of Athamas and Nephele, were hated by their stepmother, Ino.

Alternatively, Ino was also stricken with insanity and killed Melicertes by boiling him in a cauldron, then took the cauldron and jumped into the sea with it.

Aphrodite, who married Hephaistos, nevertheless had an affair with Ares to have Eros ( Love ), Phobos ( Fear ), Deimos ( Cowardice ), and Harmonia ( Harmony ), who would later marry Cadmus to sire Ino ( who with her son, Melicertes would become a sea deity ), Semele ( Mother of Dionysos ), Autonoë ( Mother of Actaeon ), Polydorus, and Agave ( Mother of Pentheus ).

In another myth, when his mother, Semele, is killed, the care of young Dionysus falls into the hands of her sisters, Ino, Agave, and Autonoe, who later are depicted as participating in the rites and taking a leadership role among the other maenads.

Most of Semele's family, including her sisters Ino, Autonoe, and Agauë, refused to believe that Dionysus was the son of Zeus, and the young god is spurned in his home.

However, Semele's family — her sisters Agave, Autonoe, and Ino, and her father, Cadmus — still believe that Semele blasphemously lied about the identity of the baby's father and that she died as a result.

Ino was jealous of her stepchildren and plotted their deaths: in some versions, she persuaded Athamas that sacrificing Phrixus was the only way to end the drought.

Later, Ino raised Dionysus, her nephew, son of her sister Semele, causing Hera's intense jealousy.

Athamas went mad and slew one of his sons, Learchus ; Ino, to escape the pursuit of her frenzied husband, threw herself into the sea with her son Melicertes.

Ino switched their clothes without Themisto's knowledge, and she killed her own children.

Nephele married Athamus, but he divorced her for Ino.

In Greek mythology Ino ( ) was a mortal queen of Thebes, who after her death and transfiguration was worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the " white goddess.

In her mortal self, Ino, the second wife of the Minyan king Athamas, the mother of Learches and Melicertes, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia and stepmother of Phrixus and Helle, was one of the three sisters of Semele, the mortal woman of the house of Cadmus who gave birth to Dionysus.

Later, Ino raised Dionysus, her nephew, son of her sister Semele, causing Hera's intense jealousy.

To escape him Ino threw herself into the sea with her son Melicertes.

A sympathetic Zeus didn't want Ino to die, and transfigured her and Melicertes as Leucothea and Palaemon.

Ino, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, had an end just as tragic as her siblings: Semele died while pregnant with Zeus ' child, killed by her own pride and lack of trust in her lover ; Agave killed her own son, King Pentheus, while struck with Dionysian madness, and Actaeon, son of Autonoe, the third sibling, was torn apart by his own hunting dogs.

When Tiberius had first been raised to the rank of Caesar, Sophia had refused the request for Ino and her children to move into the Imperial palace with her husband, forcing them to reside in a small residence near to the palace, and prohibiting them from entering the palace.

Originally betrothed as a young man to the daughter of Ino, Tiberius eventually married Ino after the deaths of her daughter and husband.

In the third century BC, when an Asia Minor city wanted to create a maenadic cult of Dionysus, the Delphic Oracle bid them to send to Thebes for both instruction and three professional maenads, stating, " Go to the holy plain of Thebe so that you may get maenads who are from the family of Ino, daughter of Cadmus.

The old men Cadmus and Tiresias, though not under the same spell as the Theban women ( who include Cadmus ' daughters Ino, Autonoe and Agave, Pentheus ' mother ), have become enamored of the Bacchic rituals and are about to go out celebrating when Pentheus returns to the city and finds them dressed in festive garb.

The three sisters were Agave, Autonoë and Ino, who was a surrogate for the divine nurses of Dionysus: " Ino was a primordial Dionysian woman, nurse to the god and a divine maenad " ( Kerenyi 1976: 246 ).

Also, the insanity of Ino and Athamas, who hunted his own son Learchos as a stag and slew him, can be explained as a result of their contact with Dionysus, whose presence can cause insanity.

* Io, an alternate spelling of the nereid Ino, later known as Leukothea who in the Odyssey gave Odysseus a veil that allowed him to breathe underwater.

A few, like Achilles, Alcmene, Amphiaraus Ganymede, Ino, Melicertes, Menelaus, Peleus, and a great number of those who fought in the Trojan and Theban wars, were considered to have been physically immortalized and brought to live forever in either Elysium, the Islands of the Blessed, heaven, the ocean, or literally right under the ground.

Dionysus is born and given to Hermes who gives him to Ino to nurse.

As Dionysus matures, Semele taunts Hera who drives Ino mad.

Alternatively, Lysithea is another name for Semele, daughter of Cadmos and Harmonia ; sister to Agave, Autonoë, Ino, and Polydorus ; mother of Dionysos by Zeus ( and who became Thyone after being rescued from Hades by her divine son ).

He subsequently married Ino, daughter of Cadmus, with whom, he had two children: Learches and Melicertes.

What Themisto did not realise was that Ino had switched the children's clothing, and so she in fact killed her own children ( except, apparently, for Schoeneus ).

However, once Tiberius was elevated to the rank of Augustus, he had his family moved into the palace, and renamed Ino as Anastasia, much to Sophia ’ s great resentment.