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  2. Aristaeus - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Naiad - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Aristaeus (giant) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Actaeon - Wikipedia

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    Actaeon (/ æ k ˈ t iː ə n /; Ancient Greek: Ἀκταίων Aktaiōn), [1] in Greek mythology, was the son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, and a famous Theban hero. Through his mother he was a member of the ruling House of Cadmus. Like Achilles, in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.

  6. Drosera (naiad) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Drosera (Ancient Greek: Δροσερή) was a naiad.She was one of the three ancestors of the Tyrians, along with Abarbarea and Callirrhoe.These nymphs were joined to sons of the soil (autochthonous) by the god Eros who was angered by their chastity.

  7. Cyane - Wikipedia

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    Cyane (sometimes anglicized as "Kyane") was a naiad, a freshwater nymph. After witnessing Hades's abduction of Persephone and trying to prevent it, Cyane was turned to liquid by Hades. [ 1 ] In Ovid 's version, she dissolved away in tears upon failing to save her friend and melted into her pool.

  8. List of Honest Trailers episodes - Wikipedia

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    The series, created in 2012, consists of parodic movie trailers. It has been viewed more than 300 million times. [1] Created by Andy Signore and Brett Weiner, Honest Trailers debuted in February 2012 and by June 2014 had become the source of over 300 million views on the Screen Junkies YouTube channel. [1]

  9. Aristaeus the Elder - Wikipedia

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    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 ...