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Aristaeus (/ ær ɪ ˈ s t iː ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀρισταῖος Aristaios) was the mythological culture hero credited with the discovery of many rural useful arts and handicrafts, including bee-keeping; [1] he was the son of the huntress Cyrene and Apollo.
In Greek mythology Aristaeus (/ ær ɪ ˈ s t iː ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀρισταῖος, romanized: Aristaîos, lit. 'most excellent') is one of the Giants, the earth-born children of Gaia. The Sicilian Aristaeus took part in the battle against the Olympian gods, and he had the distinction of being the sole survivor of that battle.
Aristaeus (Ἀρισταῖος), god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, herding, olive-growing, and hunting; Attis (Άττις), vegetation god and consort of Cybele; Britomartis (Βριτόμαρτις), Cretan goddess of hunting and nets used for fishing, fowling and the hunting of small game; Meliseus, god of bees and bee-keeping in Crete.
The Greek pantheon of gods included mortal-born heroes and heroines who were elevated to godhood through a process which the Greeks termed apotheosis. [1] Some of these received the privilege as a reward for their helpfulness to mankind example: Heracles, Asclepius and Aristaeus, others through marriage to gods, example: Ariadne, Tithonus and Psyche, and some by luck or pure chance example ...
In Greek mythology, Autonoë (/ ɔː ˈ t ɒ n oʊ. iː /; Ancient Greek: Αὐτονόη) was a Theban princess as the eldest daughter of Cadmus, founder of Thebes in Boeotia, and the goddess Harmonia. [1] She was the wife of Aristaeus and mother of Actaeon [2] and possibly Macris. [3]
Aristaeus had to seize Proteus and hold him, no matter what he would change into. Aristaeus did so, and Proteus eventually gave up and told him that the bees' death was a punishment for causing the death of Eurydice. To make amends, Aristaeus needed to sacrifice 12 animals to the gods, leave the carcasses in the place of sacrifice, and return ...
In Greek mythology, Macris (Ancient Greek: Μακρἰς meaning "far away" or "long", a reference to the elongated shape of Euboea) was a daughter of Aristaeus and Autonoe. Mythology [ edit ]
Eurydice, for whom Orpheus traveled into dark Hades, was an Auloniad, and it was in the valley of the Thessalian river Pineios where she met 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 or fear compelled her to run away from him ...