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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.
So, in the 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 experience with the naiads: when his bees died in Thessaly, he went to consult them. His aunt Arethusa invited him below the water's surface, where he was washed with water ...
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 ...
First Aristaios (Aristaeus) laden with gifts, he of the herds and he of the wilds, as he was named, the flood of allwise [check spelling] Apollon and Kyrene so ready with her hands, wedded Autonoe according to the rules of lawful marriage. Agenorides (Kadmos son of Agenor) did not refuse his daughter to a good son well acquainted with the art ...
In Greek mythology, Cyllene (/ s aɪ ˈ l iː n iː /; Ancient Greek: Κυλλήνη, romanized: Kullḗnē pronounced [kyllɛ̌ːnɛ]), also spelled Kyllene (/ k aɪ ˈ l iː n iː /), is the Naiad [1] or Oread nymph [citation needed] and the personification of Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, the region in Greece where the god of travelers and shepherds Hermes was born and brought up.
Heath 1921 notes, "Hypsicles (who lived in Alexandria) says also that Aristaeus, in a work entitled Comparison of the five figures, proved that the same circle circumscribes both the pentagon of the dodecahedron and the triangle of the icosahedron inscribed in the same sphere; whether this Aristaeus is the same as the Aristaeus of the Solid ...
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]
unfit for footraces. She the only Naiad not in Diana’s band. Often her sisters would say: "Pick up a javelin, or bristling quiver, and interrupt your leisure for the chase!" But she would not pick up a javelin or arrows, nor trade leisure for the chase. Instead she would bathe her beautiful limbs and tend to her hair, with her waters as a mirror.