Lelantos or Lelantus () is a minor mythological figure that appears in the late epic Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis, written in the early fifth century AD.
Dionysiaca Lelantos is the Titan father of the nymph Aura ("Breeze"),Grimal, s.v. Aura, p. 71; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.238–247 (III pp. 440–443), 48.421 (III pp. 454–455); 48.444 (III pp. 456–457). who was a hunting companion of Artemis and the mother, by Dionysus, of Iacchus, a minor deity connected with the Eleusinian Mysteries.Bernabé and García-Gasco, p. 109; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.26–28 (I pp. 4, 5), 48.848–968 (III pp. 484–493) Lelantos was married to the Oceanid nymph Periboea, whom Nonnus seems to imply was Aura's mother,Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.245–247 (III pp. 440–443) although elsewhere, he calls Aura the "daughter of Cybele", the Phrygian mother-goddess.Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.26–28 (I pp. 4, 5) Lelantos's own parentage is not touched upon.
See also
Leto Lethe Sangarius
Citations
General and cited references Bernabé and García-Gasco, "Nonnus and Dionysiac-Orphic Religion" in Brill's Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis, editor Domenico Accorinti, BRILL, 2016. . Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, . Nonnus, Dionysiaca; translated by Rouse, W H D, I Books I–XV. Loeb Classical Library No. 344, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940. Internet Archive Nonnus, Dionysiaca; translated by Rouse, W H D, III Books XXXVI–XLVIII. Loeb Classical Library No. 346, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940. Internet Archive