Plutus
Sign in to saveIn ancient Greek religion and mythology, Plutus (; ) is the god and the personification of wealth, and the son of the goddess of agriculture Demeter and the mortal Iasion.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Greek
- Deity.symbols
- Cornucopia
- Deity.name
- Plutus
- Deity.god_of
- God of wealth
- Deity.image
- Eirene Ploutos Glyptothek Munich 219 n4.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Eirene with the infant Plutus: Roman copy after Kephisodotos' votive statue, c. 370 BC, in the Agora, Athens.
- Deity.parents
- Demeter and Iasion or Tyche
- Deity.siblings
- Philomelus, Persephone, Despoina, Arion, Eubuleus, Iacchus
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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Plutus (; ) is the god and the personification of wealth, and the son of the goddess of agriculture Demeter and the mortal Iasion.
==Family== Plutus is most commonly the son of Demeter and Iasion, with whom she lay in a thrice-ploughed field. He is alternatively the son of the fortune goddess Tyche.