Staphylus, beloved of Dionysus, from the island ofThasos. It is thanks to Dionysus' love for him that Thasian wine is distinguished.[2]
Staphylus, in a reconstructed myth, the son ofBacchus andErigone, where Bacchus assumed the form of a grape which Erigone ate. She immediately realized that she was with child and in time gave birth to a son whom she named Staphylus.[3][4]
Staphylus, husband ofMethe and father ofBotrys. The family held court in their palace atAssyria. They received Dionysus as guest and held a banquet in his honor. Staphylus died a sudden death the next morning after the feast; to console his wife and son, Dionysus named grape bunches after Staphylus, drunkenness after Methe, and grapes after Botrys.[5][6]
Staphylus, son ofOenomaus, who fought on Dionysus' side againstPoseidon in the conflict of the two gods concerningBeroe.[7]
Staphylus, son ofSilenus, who introduced the practice of mixing wine with water.[8]
Staphylus, goatherd of KingOeneus, who discovered wild grapes as he was pasturing the king's goats and saw one of them chewing on the plant. He presented it to Oeneus, who in his turn invented the way of making the grapes into a drink. When Dionysus visited Oeneus, the king served him the new drink. Dionysus suggested that the drink be namedoinos (wine) after Oeneus, and the grapesstaphyloi after the goatherd Staphylus.[9]
^Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band IIIA, Halbband 6, Sparta-Stluppi (1929), ss. 2147-2148 (remarking that the actual primary sources never suggested that Dionysus and Erigone had a child together)
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