Note 135 — Chapter II · THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES

M. Foucart, Culte de Dion. pp. 55-60, will not allow that Iacchos was ever identified with Dionysos and believes him to have been only the genius that led the procession. Dyer, on the other hand (op. cit. p. 128), makes Iacchos the young or second Dionysos born of Semele. But Aristophanes, Frogs, l. 321, and Strabo, Bk X. c. 10 (p. 402 Didot), both give him a higher position in the Mysteries than M. Foucart would assign to him, and the older opinion that he was the child whose birth was there shown seems to hold good. Cf. Maury, Rel. de G. A. t. II. p. 341, and Arrian, Anabasis, Bk II. c. 16, § 3 (p. 50, Didot). So Stephani, Compte Rendu de la Commission Imperiale Archéologique, 1859 (St Petersburg), p. 37, where monumental evidence is given in its support. Cf. Daremberg and Saglio, Dict. des Antiquités, s.v. Eleusinia (by F. Lenormant); Clem. Alex. Protrept. c. II.; Libanius, ὑπὲρ Ἀριστοφάνους, vol. I. pp. 447, 448 (Reiske).