During the Greco-Persian Wars, when the Attic countryside, deserted by the Greeks, was being laid waste by the Persians, a ghostly procession was supposed to have been seen advancing from Eleusis, crying out “Iacchus”. This miraculous event was interpreted as a sign of the eventual Greek victory at the Battle of Salamis (480 BC).Herodotus, 8.65. Iacchus was also possibly involved in an Eleusinian myth in which the old woman Baubo, by exposing her genitals, cheered up the mourning Demeter.
During the Greco-Persian Wars when the Attic countryside deserted by the Greeks was being laid waste by the Persians a ghostly procession was supposed to have been seen advancing from Eleusis crying out “Iacchus” This miraculous event was interpreted as a sign of the eventual Greek victory at the Battle of Salamis (480 BC)Herodotus 865 Iacchus was also possibly involved in an Eleusinian myth in which the old woman Baubo by exposing her genitals cheered up the mourning Demeter