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Iacchus is an alternative name for Dionysus.
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In Greek mythology, Iapetus was one of the Titans. He was a son of Uranus and Gaea, and brother of Cronos, Oceanus, Hyperion &c. He was the father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Moenoetius. After the war of the Titans against the gods he was imprisoned by Zeus in Tartarus
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Icarus was the son Daedalus. They went to Crete and were prevented from leaving by ship by king Minos. They escaped from the Minos labyrinth by means of wings made by his father Daedalus of feathers stitched to ribs of willow and the feathers held together by wax. In escaping Icarus showed off and flew too close to the sun, the wax holding the feathers to the wings melted and
Icarus fell into the sea and was drowned.
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Ilithyria was the Greek goddess of childbirth and enlightenment, corresponding to the Roman goddess Lucina.
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In Greek mythology, Illithyia was the goddess of childbirth. She was the daughter of Hera and although the divine midwife, was herself a virgin deity.
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In Greek mythology, Io was the daughter of Inachus. She was beloved of Zeus. Zeus changed her into a white heifer to protect her from the jealousy of Hera.
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In Greek mythology Ion was the son of Apollo and the Arthenian princess Creusa, whom Apollo raped on the Acropolis. Creusa abandoned Ion at birth, and Apollo took the child to Delphi, where he was brought up in ignorance of his true parentage. In the meantime, Creusa married King Xuthus. After several childless years, they went to Delphi to ask advice. Apollo told Xuthus that the first person he met on leaving the shrine would be his son - and that person was Ion. Furious that Xuthus was adopting someone she took to be a stranger, Creusa tried to kill Ion, but Apollo appeared and explained the situation. They all went back to Athens and in due course Ion sailed North and became the ancestor of the Ionian nation.
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In Greek mythology, Iphigenia was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. She was sacrificed by her father at Aulis to secure favourable winds for the Greek fleet in the expedition against Troy, on instructions from the prophet Calchas. According to some accounts, she was saved by the goddess Artemis, and made her priestess.
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Irene was the Greek goddess of peace. She was sometimes regarded as one of the Horae, who presided over the seasons and the order of nature, and were the daughters of Zeus and Themis.
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In Greek and Roman mythologies, Iris was the goddess of the rainbow. She was the daughter of Thaumas and the Titan Electra. She was a sister of the Harpies. She was a beautiful, winged messenger who was taken into heaven by Hera to be her handmaiden. She conveyed divine commands from Zeus and Hera to mankind, assisting those who were having trouble dying by severing the last threads of life. She was also tasked with keeping the clouds filled with rain.
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In Greek mythology, Ismene was the youngest child of Oedipus and Jocasta, and the sister of Antigone, Eteocles and Polynices. When Antigone proposed to bury Polynices against King Creon of Thebes' orders, Ismene refused to help, but when Antigone was arrested and charged with the burial, she tried to share the blame, only to be rejected contemptuously by her sister.
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In Greek mythology, Ixion was the son of Phlegyas and King of the Lapithae in Thessaly who was punished for his wickedness by being tied to a perpetually revolving wheel of fire.
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