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Zagreus
In ancient Greek religion and myth, Zagreus () was a god, usually but not always identified with Dionysus.〔Karl Kerenyi, ''Dionysos: Archetypal image of indestructible life'', (Princeton University Press) 1976:esp. pp 80–89.〕 He was especially worshipped by followers of Orphism, whose late Orphic hymns invoke his name.
==Etymology and origins==
In Greek a hunter who catches living animals is called ''zagreus'', Karl Kerenyi notes, and the Ionian word ''zagre'' signifies a "pit for the capture of live animals".〔Kerenyi (1976:82) quotes Hesychius, who gives characteristically Ionian Greek endings.〕 "We may justifiably ask," observes Kerenyi,〔Kereny 1976: "The Cretan core of the Dionysos myth", 83f.〕 "Why was this great mythical hunter, who in Greece became a mysterious god of the underworld, a capturer of wild animals and not a killer?" Kerenyi links the figure of Zagreus with archaic Dionysiac rites in which small animals were torn limb from limb and their flesh devoured raw, "not as an emanation of the Greek Dionysian religion, but rather as a migration or survival of a prehistoric rite".〔Kereny 1976:85.〕
Greeks in Crete preserved a tradition that Zagreus who was identified with ''Dionysos'' was the son of Zeus and Persephone.〔Diodorus Siculus, v. 75.4: "they allege that the god was born of Zeus and Persephone in Crete, and Orpheus in the mysteries represents him as torn in pieces by the Titans"; Julius Firmicus Maternus, ''De errore profanarum religionum'', vi 5 (noted by Kerenyi 1976:83 note 109).〕
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