Zagreus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An obscure figure in Greek mythology who, according to Orphic tradition, was the son of Zeus and Persephone who was destroyed by the Titans but reborn through the intervention of Zeus as Dionysus.

Word forms

Zagreus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζαγρεύς (Zagreús).

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