Irbus

Irbus (Greek Ἴρβος) is a person from Greek mythology.

According to Pausanias, Irbus was the son of the Lacedaemonian Amphisthenes and thus a great-grandson of the mythical Spartan king Agis. His sons were Alopekos and Astrabacus, who went mad together when they found the cult image of Artemis Orthia, kidnapped by Orestes and Iphigenia to Sparta, in a Willow bush. They were the first to fall victim to the malevolent creature of Orthia in Sparta, whose cult was subsequently associated with human sacrifice until Lycurgus replaced him with the whipping of Ephebe in order to stain the altar of Orthia with human blood and on it Way to satisfy the goddess' thirst for blood.
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Pausanias 3:16, 9

Literature

Hermann Steuding: Irbos. In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Ed.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology. Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 317 (digitized version).

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