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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 ...
In 432 BC, Aristeus was appointed as commander of the Corinthian military expedition for the relief of their colony Potidaea, which had just seceded from Athens. [3] He was able to recruit Corinthian volunteers and mercenaries from the rest of the Peloponnesus to fight alongside him due to his popularity, both domestically and in Potidaea. [2]
As recorded in Pindar's ninth Pythian ode, Cyrene was the daughter of Hypseus, king of the Lapiths, [2] and the naiad Chlidanope. [3] [4] According to Apollonius Rhodius, she also had a sister called Larissa. [5] Cyrene's other sisters were Themisto, [6] Alcaea [4] and Astyagyia. [7] By the god Apollo, she bore Aristaeus and Idmon. Aristaeus ...
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]
The featured Wesen tonight is the Naiad, based on the water nymph of Greek myth—though the epigraph comes from Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid.' In Grimm ' s version of this creature, the males are sterile, and the women must mate in the water with other men in order to further the species of half-human Wesen. In essence, the ...
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).
House is a 1985 American comedy horror film directed by Steve Miner, with a screenplay by Ethan Wiley, from an original story written by Fred Dekker. Produced by Sean S. Cunningham , the film is the first installment in the House film series , and stars William Katt , George Wendt , Richard Moll , and Kay Lenz .