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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 ...
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]
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.
In Greek mythology, Melite (/ ˈ m ɛ l ɪ t iː /; Ancient Greek: Μελίτη) was one of the Naiads, daughter of the river god Aegaeus, and one of the many loves of Zeus and his son Heracles.
True-Life Adventures is a series of short and full-length nature documentary films released by Walt Disney Productions between the years 1948 and 1960. [1] The first seven films released were thirty-minute shorts, with the subsequent seven films being full features.
Creusa bore Hypseus, the future king of the Lapiths, and Stilbe to the river god Peneus. [2] Through Hypseus, she was the grandmother of Cyrene, one of the best known lovers of Apollo while her daughter, Stilbe, gave birth to twin sons to the same god.
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.