Daduchos

{{Short description|Epithet of Artemis}}

Daduchos or Daduchus, or Dadouchos ({{IPAc-en|d|ə|'|d|j|uː|k|ə|s}};{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/websterspractica00we/page/548/mode/2up |page=548 |title=A Practical Dictionary of the English Language|editor1-first=Dorsey |editor1-last=Gardner |editor2-first=Noah |editor2-last=Porter|publisher=Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. |location=New York |year=1884}} {{langx|grc|δᾳδοῦχος}} "torch-bearer", from δᾶις+ἔχω) is an epithet of Artemis, and notably of Demeter seeking her lost daughter (Persephone) with a torch. It was also an epithet of Hekate,{{Cite journal|last=MORELLI|first=DONATO|date=1959|title=Parte Prima: FONTI|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24172474|journal=Studi Classici e Orientali|volume=8|pages=1–73|jstor=24172474 |issn=0081-6124}} a goddess frequently associated with torches. This title was given in the Rhodes Island in Greece.

It was also the title of the second priest (ranking after the Hierophant) at the Eleusinian Mysteries, an office inherited in several families of Athens.