Icarius (Athenian)

[1] Dionysus was angry and punished Athens with a plague, inflicting insanity on all the unmarried women, who all hanged themselves as Erigone had.

The plague did not cease until the Athenians introduced honorific rites for Icarius and Erigone.

Icarius was placed in the stars as the constellation Boötes by Dionysus or Zeus who pitied their misfortune.

[2] There is a mosaic in Paphos, Cyprus, from a Roman villa from the mid 2nd century A.D. which is called "Dionysus House".

[3] It was probably this Icarius whom Clement of Alexandria[4] referred to as husband of Phanothea, a woman who was believed to have invented the hexameter.