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Icarus greek mythology
Icarus greek mythology





icarus greek mythology

Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant.Online version at the Topos Text Project. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Gaius Julius Hyginus, Astronomica from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant.Greek text available from the same website. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press London, William Heinemann Ltd. Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S.^ William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v.Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) - Christian Classics Ethereal Library". Domestic and Divine: Roman Mosaics in the House of Dionysos. ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.4.4 Fabulae 130.It was probably this Icarius whom Clement of Alexandria referred to as husband of Phanothea, a woman who was believed to have invented the hexameter. The mosaic First wine drinkers describes Dionysus giving the gift of vine and wine to Icarius as a reward for Icarius' generous hospitality. There is a mosaic in Paphos, Cyprus, from a Roman villa from the mid 2nd century A.D. Icarius was placed in the stars as the constellation Boötes by Dionysus or Zeus who pitied their misfortune. The plague did not cease until the Athenians introduced honorific rites for Icarius and Erigone. Dionysus was angry and punished Athens with a plague, inflicting insanity on all the unmarried women, who all hanged themselves as Erigone had. Erigone hanged herself over her father's grave. His daughter Erigone and her dog Maera found his body. The shepherds became intoxicated and killed Icarius, thinking he had poisoned them. Icarius was cordial towards Dionysus, who gave his shepherds wine. In Greek mythology, Icarius ( / ɪ ˈ k ɛər i ə s/ Ancient Greek: Ἰκάριος Ikários) was a man from Athens who welcomed the god Dionysus. Icarius transporting wine in a 3rd-century mosaic from Paphos







Icarus greek mythology