Orthanes

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Orthanes or Orthannes () is a minor fertility and phallic god worshipped in Athens and the island of Imbros in the Aegean Sea. Little is known about Orthanes, his mythology and cult. Orthanes was seen as an ithyphallic god in the likes of Priapus, the fertility god with the enlarged genitalia. His imagery was used on coins from Imbros.

== Mythology == Very little information survives on Orthanes' role in ancient Greek legends and mythology. Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople writes that Orthanes was the son of Hermes and a nymph. The Hellenistic poet Lycophron likens the lovestruck Paris to Orthanes, and Byzantine scholar John Tzetzes in his commentary on Lycophron describes Orthanes as a "Priapus-like daemon around Aphrodite." Along with Conisalus and Tychaon, he was one of the lesser phallic gods who were absorbed into Priapus, although older than him.