Ampelos

Ampelos (Greek Ἄμπελος, vine ) is in Greek and Roman mythology, a young satyr and the personification of the vine. After Ampelos the ampelography ampelography was called.

Ancient mythology

In the Greek Dionysiaca of Nonnus Ampelos is in Asia Minor, Lydia, the beloved of Dionysus. When he rides a bull at the hunting, he falls down and trampled to death. As a consolation, for Dionysos, Zeus transformed him into the first vine. Dionysus planted the first new greenhouse in a bird bone. When this becomes too small, he exchanged it with a lion bones and finally against a donkey. So Dionysus can take the vine everywhere and spread it throughout the world.

In the Roman Fasti of Ovid Ampelos is the son of a nymph and a satyr. In Greek landscape Thrace he is the beloved of Bacchus. When he climbs up a tree to pick grapes from a vine grown up there, he falls down and dies. Bacchus puts him then as Vindemitor ( boat ) to the sky.