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    Demeter, Aristaeus learned the skills of the various branches of agriculture, horticulture, fungiculture and animal husbandry; as such, Aristaeus was also...
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    Themisto, Alcaea and Astyagyia. By the god Apollo, she bore Aristaeus and Idmon. Aristaeus became the god of animal husbandry, bee-keeping and cheese making...
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  • Aristaeus may refer to: Aristaeus, a Greek god Aristaeus the Elder, Greek mathematician, active in the 4th century BCE Aristaeus, another name for Battus...
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    in the fourth Georgic, at one time the bees of Aristaeus, son of Apollo, all died of a disease. Aristaeus went to his mother, Cyrene, for help; she told...
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    his Georgics, a poem on the subject of agriculture. Here the name of Aristaeus, or Aristaios, the keeper of bees, and the tragic conclusion was first...
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  • The mathematician Pappus of Alexandria refers to him as Aristaeus the Elder. Pappus gave Aristaeus great credit for a work entitled Five Books concerning...
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    back-story of the myth of Aristaeus, Hypseus, a king of the Lapiths, married Chlidanope, a naiad, who bore him Cyrene. Aristaeus had more than ordinary mortal...
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  • Sicilian Aristaeus took part in the battle against the Olympian gods, and he had the distinction of being the sole survivor of that battle. The Aristaeus of...
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  • USS Aristaeus (ARB-1) was planned as a United States Navy LST-1-class tank landing ship, but was redesignated as one of twelve Aristaeus-class battle damage...
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  • Bus at Palomar Observatory. It is named for Aristaeus, the son of Apollo and the nymph Cyrene. 2135 Aristaeus is a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA)...
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    arts. Aristaeus – Although his mother Cyrene lived in Libya, Aristaeus' father Apollo brought him on Mount Pelion to be reared by Chiron. Aristaeus would...
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  • "long", a reference to the elongated shape of Euboea) was a daughter of Aristaeus and Autonoe. Macris reared the young Hera in Euboea during the goddess'...
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    larvae feed on grasses of the family Gramineae. Hipparchia aristaeus aristaeus Hipparchia aristaeus algirica (Oberthür, 1876) (North Africa) "Hipparchia Fabricius...
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  • Anaximander Bion Empedocles Thales Aglaonice Anaxagoras Archytas Aristaeus Callippus Cleostratus Democritus Euctemon Eudoxus Heraclides Hicetas Hippocrates...
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    played joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow. One day, Aristaeus saw and pursued Eurydice, who stepped on a viper, was bitten, and died...
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    Seeing several of his nymphs and Aristaeus drowning in a river, he took them to safety and healed them. He taught Aristaeus more useful healing arts and sent...
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  • her death, indirectly, at the hands of Aristaeus, son of the god Apollo and the nymph Cyrene. It was Aristaeus's wish to ravish Eurydice and either disgust...
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  • nations, a local form of Demeter Anthousai (Ανθούσαι), flower nymphs Aristaeus (Ἀρισταῖος), god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, herding, olive-growing...
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  • founder of Thebes in Boeotia, and the goddess Harmonia. She was the wife of Aristaeus and mother of Actaeon and possibly Macris. In Euripides' play, The Bacchae...
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  • Achates, a companion of the exiled Aeneas. Achates, a Sicilian who came to Aristaeus in order to join Dionysus in his Indian campaign. Ancient Greece portal...
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  • clusters, and nothing left of the ox but horns, bones and hair. The story of Aristaeus was an archetype of this ritual, serving to instruct bee keepers on how...
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  • Endeïs and Ocyrhoe. Carystus was the father of Zarex, and also a certain Aristaeus. The town of Carystus on Euboea took the name from him. Tzetzes on Lycophron...
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  • reward for their helpfulness to mankind example: Heracles, Asclepius and Aristaeus, others through marriage to gods, example: Ariadne, Tithonus and Psyche...
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    killed Mimas by throwing molten iron at him. He also fought another Giant, Aristaeus, but he fled. During the battle Hephaestus fell down exhausted, and was...
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    deities as the Celtic Cernunnos, the Hindu Pashupati, and the Greek Pan. Aristaeus Dryad Golden Age Kokopelli Pan in popular culture Pan, sculpture by Roger...
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    Virgil, who first introduces the name of Aristaeus (by the time of Virgil's Georgics, the myth has Aristaeus chasing Eurydice when she was bitten by a...
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  • identified with Angelos, or Pheraea, daughter of Aeolus; the daughter of Aristaeus the son of Paion, according to Pherecydes; the daughter of Nyx, according...
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    Rustic deities Aetna Agdistis The Alseids Amphictyonis The Anthousai Aristaeus Attis The Auloniads Britomartis The Cabeiri Comus The Dryades Erato The...
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  • of sea god Nereus), and Peleus, king of the Myrmidons. Actaeon: son of Aristaeus and Autonoë, Boeotian prince who was turned into a stag by Artemis and...
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    beekeeping by Aristaeus and the story of Orpheus' journey to the underworld. Ancient scholars, such as Servius, conjectured that the Aristaeus episode replaced...
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