Note 130 — Chapter II · THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES
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Iacchos was identified with Dionysos at least as early as the time of Sophocles. Cf. Antigone, ll. 1130 sqq., and Dyer, The Gods in Greece, 1891, p. 133. Very likely, as M. Foucart suggests, he was originally the personification of the cry repeated by the procession of the initiated. See Grds. Myst. p. 122.