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Erigone.
Erigone was the daughter of Icarius, an Athenian who showed great hospitality to the god Dionysus (Bacchus). In return, the god gave him the gift of wine. Icarius shared the wine with shepherds who, in drunken confusion, killed him. Grief-stricken upon discovering her father’s body, Erigone hanged herself. According to some versions of the myth, she was transformed into the constellation Virgo; in others, the people of Attica were subjected to suffering and plague until, on the advice of the god Apollo, they organized a festival honoring Erigone and her father.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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