Eleuther
Ἐλευθήρ
(Ἐλευθήρ), a son of Apollo and Aethusa, the daughter of Poseidon, was regarded as the founder of Eleutherae in Boeotia. (Steph. Byz s. v. Ἐλευθεραί.) He was the grandfather of Jasius and Poemander, the founder of Tanagra. (Paus. 9.20.2.) He is said to have been the tirst that erected a statue of Dionysus, and spread the worship of the god. (Hygin. Fab. 225.) There are two other mythical personages of the same name. (Plut. Quaest. Gr. 39; Steph. Byz. s.v. Ἐλευθεραί.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.