Ino (Greek mythology)
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Ino (Greek mythology)
In
Greek mythology
Ino was a mortal queen of
Thebes
, the second wife of
Athamas
, the mother of
Learches
and
Melicertes
, daughter of
Cadmus
and
Harmonia
and stepmother of
Phrixus
and
Helle
. She was one of the three sisters of
Semele
:
Agave
,
Autonoe
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).
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