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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.
The Aristaeus of was one of the Giants, thus presumably a child of Gaia, the race that attacked the gods during the war that came to be known as the Gigantomachy. [1] He is probably named on an Attic black-figure dinos by Lydos (Akropolis 607) dating from the second quarter of the sixth century BC, where he is depicted fighting his opponent Hephaestus, the god of the forge. [2]
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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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 March 2025. This is a list of notable offspring of a deity with a mortal, in mythology and modern fiction. Such entities are sometimes referred to as demigods, although the term "demigod" can also refer to a minor deity, or great mortal hero with god-like valour and skills, who sometimes attains divine ...
Carystus or Carystos (/ k ə ˈ r ɪ s t ə s /; Ancient Greek: Κάρυστος) or Carycus, in Greek mythology, was the son of Chiron and a nymph Chariclo, brother of Hippe, Endeïs and Ocyrhoe. Carystus was the father of Zarex, [1] [AI-generated source?] and also, a certain Aristaeus.
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]
Battus was born on the Greek island of Thera.What is known of Battus’ family background is from the Greek historian Herodotus.His father, Polymnestus, was a Therean nobleman; Herodotus reports that the Cyrenes identify his mother as Phronima, daughter of Etearchus or Eteachos by his first wife, was King of Oaxus (a city on the Greek island of Crete).