Euhemerus lang grc Euh meros , happy prosperous late 4th century BC was a Greek Mythography mythographer at the court of Cassander , the king of Macedon . Euhemerus birthplace is disputed, with Messina ... is known about Euhemerus s life, and his birthplace is disputed. Classical writers such as Diodorus ... Hist. 34.5 apud Strabo ii.4.2 ref maintained that Euhemerus was a Messenian, but did not specify ... generally agree that Euhemerus came from the Sicilian Messene Messina . ref Ne methy 1889 4 van Gils ... provides other details about Euhemerus life. According to Diodorus, ref Diodorus vi.1.4. ref Euhemerus ... mythographer for the Macedonian court. Sometime in the early 3rd century BC Euhemerus wrote his main work Sacred History Hiera Anagraph . Euhemerus Sacred History Only quoted fragments, remain from Euhemerus main work, a Sacred History . Diodorus Siculus included fragments from Euhemerus writings ... Roman writer Ennius first translated Euhemerus work into Latin, but this translation is also ... is presumably a fairly complete picture of Euhemerus work . ref Euhemerus in Context , Franco De Angelis ... Euhemerus work may have taken the form of a philosophical fictionalized travelogue, universally accepted ..., which his literary persona claimed to have found during his travels. Euhemerus claims to have traveled ... century AD, Eusebius of Caesarea . Euhemerus references a rational island utopia . The ancient ... Euhemerus apparently systematized a method of interpreting the popular mythology myth s, which was consistent ... of a rational naturalism. Euhemerus asserted that the Greek god s had been originally kings, heroes ... the reputation of Cretans as liars. ref Sprydakis 1968 340. ref Euhemerism Euhemerus has become .... p. 45. ref Euhemerus was not the first to attempt to rationalize mythology through history, as euhemeristic ... and Ephorus . ref S. Spyridakis Zeus Is Dead Euhemerus and Crete The Classical Journal 63.8 May 1968 ... Io Histories I.1ff and events of the Trojan War Histories 2.18ff . ref However Euhemerus is credited ... more details
Panchaea Greek language Greek Polytonic is a fictional island , first mentioned by Ancient Greece ancient Greek philosopher Euhemerus in the late 4th century BC. Euhemerus describes the island and his trip there in his major work Sacred History , only fragments of which survive. Fragments preserved by followers such as the later Greek historian Diodorus Siculus and 4th century AD Christian writer Eusebius of Caesarea describe Panchaea as a rational island paradise located in the Indian Ocean . Euhemerus came there by traveling through the Red Sea and around the Arabian Peninsula in the island s temple of Zeus Triphylius he discovered a register of the births and deaths of the gods, proving they were merely historical figures. The place may resemble the Failaka Island , although it is unlikely Panchaea was a real place, but rather a literary device invented by the author. In many parts its description is similar to Plato s Atlantis . References Unreferenced date November 2007 Category Fictional islands Category Mythological places de Panchaia ... more details
Leon of Pella Ancient Greek Greek Polytonic or Leo the Egyptians Egyptian 4th century BC was a historian, priest and theologian. He wrote the book On the Gods in Egypt Polytonic , based on an apocryphal letter of Alexander the Great to his mother Olympias . He was a contemporary of Euhemerus and explained similarly the human origin of the Gods. The early Christian writers, in their controversy with the heathens , refer not infrequently to a Leo or Leon as having admitted that the deities of the antient gentile world had been originally men, agreeing in this respect with Euhemerus , with whom he was contemporary, or perhaps rather earlier. Augustine , who is most explicit in his notice of him, says he was an Egyptian priest of high rank, magnus antistes , and expounded the popular mythology to Alexander the Great, in a manner which, though differing from those, rationalistic explanations received in Greece, accorded with them in making the gods including even the dii majorum gentium to have been originally men. Augustine refers to an account of the statements of Leo contained in a letter of Alexander to his mother. It is to be observed, that although Leon was high in his priestly rank at the time when Alexander was in Egypt b. c. 332 331 , his name is Greek and Arnobius Adv. Gentes, iv. 29 calls him Leo Pellaeus, Leo of Pella , an epithet which Fabricius does not satisfactorily explain. Euhemerus was also at the court of Cassander , the king of Macedon. References http books.google.com books?id Uo1s dz2r5MC&pg PA73&dq Leo Pella Gods Egypt&sig 2ojphjhhKW maGE4UaqAPe3Bi6s Jahrbuch Des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts http books.google.com books?id wJ4YAAAAIAAJ&pg PA742&dq Leo Pella Gods Egypt Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith http books.google.com books?id GkCe6oEmN4sC&pg PA178&dq Leo Pella Gods Egypt&sig mAXknQYWmqezDgm uZmY7eWzVmg Roman and European Mythologies by Yves Bonnefoy http bo ... more details
In Norse mythology , r heimr anglicized Thr dheim or Thrudheim , which means World of strength in Old Norse , is the home of Thor according to the Poetic Edda Eddic poem Gr mnism l small 4 small . But in Snorri Sturluson s Prose Edda Edda Gylfaginning , small 21, 47 small Sk ldskaparm l , small 17 small and Ynglinga saga small 5 small , the name of Thor s residence is r vangr or r vangar. r heimr is nevertheless mentioned in Snorri s Edda , but in its prologue ref r heimr is actually also mentioned in http www.hi.is eybjorn gg gg4par23.html one manuscript Codex Upsaliensis of Gylfaginning 22 , where it is the name of the residence of the J tunn giants jazi and Ska i , but the three other main manuscripts, along with Gr mnism l 11 , have rymheimr . ref . In this Euhemerus euhemerized story, it is written that Tror, whom we call Thor , conquered the kingdom of Thrace , which we call r heimr . Notes reflist rr DEFAULTSORT Thrudheim Category Locations in Norse mythology Category Thor norse myth stub es r heimr fr r heimr it r heimr ru ... more details
The Prologue is the first section of four books of the Prose Edda , and consists of a Euhemerus euhemerized Christianity Christian account of the origins of Norse mythology the Norse gods are described as human Troy Trojan warriors who left Troy after the fall of that city and settled in northern Europe, where they were accepted as divine kings because of their superior culture and technology. Regarding Prologue , scholar Anthony Faulkes comments that undoubtedly one of the author of Prologue s motives for including the prologue, and maybe the chief reason for the use of the frame device itself, was to avoid the criticism that his stories were dangerous to Christianity orthodoxy . ref name FAULKES284 285 Faulkes 1985 284 285 . ref See also Heimskringla Notes reflist References refbegin Anthony Faulkes Faulkes, Anthony 1985 . Pagan Sympathy Attitudes to Heathendom in the Prologue to Snorra Edda as collected in Glendinning, R. J. Bessason, Heraldur Editors . Edda a Collection of Essays. University of Manitoba Press . ISBN 0887556167 refend Prose Edda Category Icelandic literature Category Medieval literature Category Old Norse literature Category Old Norse prose Norse myth stub Iceland stub de Prolog Snorra Edda fr Prologue de l Edda de Snorri it Fyrirs gn ok Form li ... more details
The gens Accoleia was a plebeian family at Ancient Rome Rome during the 1st century BC Most of what is known of the family comes from various coins and inscriptions. ref Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , William Smith lexicographer William Smith , Editor ref Praenomina used by the gens The only praenomina known to have been used by the gens are Publius praenomen Publius and Lucius praenomen Lucius . ref Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , William Smith lexicographer William Smith , Editor ref Branches and cognomina of the gens Three cognomina are known to have been used by members of this family Lariscolus, Euhermerus , and Abascantus . Since the gens does not seem to have been very large, these were probably personal, rather than hereditary surnames. ref Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , William Smith lexicographer William Smith , Editor ref Members of the gens Publius Accoleius Lariscolus, moneyer triumvir monetalis in 43 BC. Publius Accoleius Euhemerus, from an inscription. Lucius Accoleius Abascantus, from an inscription. See also List of Roman gentes References reflist SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Accoleia Gens Category Roman gentes Category Ancient Roman families Category Prosopography of Ancient Rome bg ... more details
saved book title Atheism subtitle A philosophical examination cover image Atom of Atheism lowres Zanaq.png cover color lightgrey Atheism A philosophical examination The definitions Atheism Occam s razor Philosophical skepticism Freethought Naturalism philosophy Naturalism Metaphysical naturalism Physicalism Logical positivism Materialism Rationalism Analytic philosophy Secular ethics Secularism Humanism The varieties Implicit and explicit atheism Negative and positive atheism Opium of the people History of atheism Age of Enlightenment Atheism in the Age of the Enlightenment New Atheism Brights movement Apatheism Agnosticism Agnostic atheism Existentialism God is dead Theological noncognitivism Argument from nonbelief Dysteleology Criticism of religion Irreligion Kafir Atheism in Hinduism stika and n stika Jainism and non creationism C rv ka The authors Diagoras of Melos Euhemerus Theodorus the Atheist Ajita Kesakambali Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Ludwig Feuerbach Denis Diderot Jean Meslier Friedrich Nietzsche Baron d Holbach David Hume Albert Camus Jean Paul Sartre Bertrand Russell Michel Onfray Daniel Dennett Richard Dawkins Sam Harris author Sam Harris Christopher Hitchens Michael Shermer Philip Pullman Category Wikipedia books on religion Category Wikipedia books on philosophy ... more details
Preparation for the Gospel , commonly known by its Latin title Praeparatio evangelica , was a work of Christian apologetics written by Eusebius in the early part of the fourth century AD. It was begun about the year 313, ref Aaron P. Johnson, Ethnicity and Argument in Eusebius Praeparatio evangelica 2006 , p. 11. ref and attempts to prove the excellence of Christianity over pagan religions and philosophies. Contents The Praeparatio consists of fifteen books which have been completely preserved. Eusebius considered it an introduction to Christianity for pagans. But its value for many later readers is more because Eusebius added information from historians and philosophers which was not recorded elsewhere. Namely Here alone is preserved a summary of the writings of the Phoenicia n priest Sanchuniathon , of which the accuracy has been shown by the mythological accounts found on the Ugaritic tables. Here alone is the account from Diodorus Siculus s sixth book of Euhemerus s wondrous voyage to the island of Panchaea where Euhemerus purports to have found his true history of the gods. Here almost alone are preserved writings of the Platonist philosopher Atticus philosopher Atticus along with much else. Here primarily are preserved important works of Porphyry , the Neoplatonist critic of Christianity the On Images, Philosophy from Oracles, the Letter to Anebo, the Against the Christians, the Against Boethus, the Philological Lecture . Influence This work was used by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 1494 as a resource for his well known oration A Speech by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Prince of Concord . Praeparatio evangelica The term also denotes a early church doctrine, praeparatio evangelica , meaning a preparation of the gospel among cultures yet to hear of the message of Christ. In this view, God has already sown the older cultures with ideas and themes that would grow to fruition through interpretation in a fully Christian context. ref Phi ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 In Greek mythology , Glauce in ancient Greek , Latin Glauca , refers to seven different people Glauce, daughter of Creon disambiguation Creon . She married Jason . She was killed, along with Jason s children, by his wife, Medea . Also known by the name Creusa , predominantly in Latin authors, e.g. Seneca Medea and Propertius 2.16.30 . Glauce, one of the Nereids Glauce, one of the Danaids , daughter of Danaus . She married Alces , son of Aegyptus and an Arabian woman. Glauce, daughter of Cychreus , son of Poseidon and Salamis mythology Salamis . Some sources say that Glauce married Aeacus and bore him a son Telamon . Others say that Telamon was her husband and that, after her death, he married Periboea , mother of Ajax mythology Ajax . Glauce, a nymph, one of the nurses of Zeus Glauce, an Amazons amazon Glauce, mother by Ajax mythology Ajax , of Aeantides Glauce, twin sister of Pluto mythology Euhemerism and Latinization Pluto according to Euhemerus Category Greek mythology Category Greek mythological Amazons Category Nymphs Category Nereids Greek deity stub ar br Glaoke ca Cre sa filla de Creont cs Glauk el fr Glauc fille de Cr on it Glauce lt Glauk hu Glauk nl Cre sa van Korinthe pt Cre sa filha de Creonte ru sr sv Kreusa ... more details
In Norse mythology , r vangr Old Norse power field ref name SIMEK330 Simek 2007 330 . ref , sometimes anglicized as Thrudvang or Thruthvang or r vangr plural form is are a field fields where the god Thor resides. The field is attested in the Prose Edda and in Heimskringla , both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. In the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning , the enthroned figure of High, Just As High, and Third High tells Gangleri King Gylfi in disguise about the god Thor. Among other details, High mentions that Thor s realm is r vangr and that Thor owns the hall Bilsk rnir , the largest of all buildings ever erected. ref name FAULKES22 Faulkes 1995 22 . ref Further in Gylfaginning , High mentions that Thor returned to r vangr after tgar a Loki s fortress disappeared. ref name FAULKES46 Faulkes 1995 46 . ref In the Prose Edda book Sk ldskaparm l , Thor s battle with Hrungnir is recounted. The narration details that, after defeating Hrungnir and left with a whetstone lodged in his head, Thor returned to r vangr, where the v lva Gr a unsuccessfully attempted to remove the stone. ref name FAULKES79 80 Faulkes 1995 79 80 . ref In the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga , the field is again mentioned, yet in Euhemerus euhemerized context here Thor is a temple priest, and given r vangr, a location in Sweden, by Odin , here described as a powerful king. ref name HOLLANDER10 Hollander 2007 10 . ref See also F lkvangr , the afterlife field of the goddess Freyja r r , daughter of Thor and or valkyrie Notes reflist 2 References refbegin Faulkes, Anthony Trans. 1995 . Edda . Everyman s Library Everyman . ISBN 0 460 87616 3 Hollander, Lee Milton. Trans. 2007 . Heimskringla History of the Kings of Norway . University of Texas Press . ISBN 978 0 292 73061 8 Simek, Rudolf 2007 translated by Angela Hall. Dictionary of Northern Mythology . Boydell & Brewer D.S. Brewer . ISBN 0859915131 refend rr DEFAULTSORT Thrudvang Category Locations in Norse mythology Category T ... more details
File Belus Jupiter.jpg thumb 200px Belus from Guillaume Rouill s Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Mesopotamian myth Babylon Unreferenced date December 2007 Belus or Belos in classical Greek language Greek or classical Latin texts and later material based on them in a Babylonia n context refers to the Babylonian god Bel god Bel Marduk . Though often identified with Greek Zeus and Latin Jupiter mythology Jupiter as Zeus Belos or Jupiter Belus, in other cases Belus is euhemerized as an ancient king who founded Babylon and built the ziggurat. He is recognized and worshipped as the God of war. Eusebius of Caesarea Praeparatio Evangelica 9.18 cites Artabanus as stating in his Jewish History that Artabanus found in anonymous works that giants who had been dwelling in Babylonia were destroyed by the gods for impiety, but one of them named Belus escaped and settled in Babylon and lived in the tower which he built and named the Tower of Belus. A little later Eusebius 9.41 cites Abydenus Concerning the Assyrians for the information that the site of Babylon blockquote ... was originally water, and called a sea. But Belus put an end to this, and assigned a district to each, and surrounded Babylon with a wall and at the appointed time he disappeared. blockquote This seems to be a rationalized version of Marduk s defeat of Tiamet in the Enuma Elish cn date September 2011 followed here by Belus becoming a god. A little earlier in the same section, in a supposed prophecy by King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar , King Nebuchadnezzar claims to be descended from Belus. Diodorus Siculus 6.1.10 cites Euhemerus as relating that Zeus a euhemerized Zeus went to Babylon and was entertained by Belus. Diodorus also relates 17.112.3 how the Chaldea n of Babylon requested Alexander the Great to restore the Tomb of Belus which had been demolished by the Persians. Strabo 16.1.5 likewise refers to the ziggurat as the Tomb of Belus which had been demolished by Xerxes I Xerxes . See ... more details
Quintus Ennius c. 239 BC c. 169 BC was a writer during the period of the Roman Republic , and is often considered the father of Roman poetry . He was of Calabrian descent. ref Citation last Smith first William title Smith s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography place London year 1854 contribution Rhudiae url http artfl.uchicago.edu cgi bin philologic getobject.pl?c.9 1 149.geography br That author is repeatedly termed a Calabrian Her. Carm. 4.8 Ovid. A. A. 3.409 Sil. Ital. l. c. Acron, ad Hor. l. c. ref Although only fragments of his works survive, his influence in Latin literature was significant. Biography Ennius was born at Rudiae, an old Italic peoples Italian predominantly Osci Oscan ref Young Sellar, William, The Roman Poets of the Republic, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 9781108029827, p. 64 an old Italian town the epithet vetustae is applied to it by Silius which had been partially Hellenised, but still retained its native traditions and the use of the Oscan language ref town historically founded by the Messapians . Here Oscan language Oscan , Greek language Greek , and Latin language Latin languages were in contact with one another according to Aulus Gellius 17.17.1, Ennius referred to this heritage by saying he had three hearts Quintus Ennius tria corda habere sese dicebat, quod loqui Graece et Osce et Latine sciret . Ennius continued the nascent literary tradition by writing praetexta e, tragedy tragedies , and Fabula palliata palliatae , as well as his most famous work, a historic epic called the Annales Ennius Annales . Other minor works include the Epicharmus , the Euhemerus , the Hedyphagetica , and Saturae . The Epicharmus presented an account of the gods and the physical operations of the universe . In it, the poet dreamed he had been transported after death to some place of heavenly enlightenment. The Euhemerus presented a theology theological doctrine of a vastly different type in a mock simple prose style modelled on the Greek of Euheme ... more details
Fertile Crescent myth Levantine Middle Eastern deities Baal berith Baal of the Covenant and El berith El of the Covenant are two gods, or one god, worshiped in Shechem , in ancient Israel . ref name DDD cite book title Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible DDD first1 K. last1 van der Toorn first2 Bob last2 Becking first3 Pieter Willem last3 van der Horst publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing year 1999 isbn 9004111190, 9789004111196 pages 141 144 url http books.google.com books?id yCkRz5pfxz0C&pg PA141 ref Berith probably appears also, as brt , in Ugarit ic texts second millennium BCE , in connection with Ba al , ref name DDD and perhaps as Beruth in Sanchuniathon s work. Book of Judges Judges 8 33, 9 4, and 9 46 is the only Biblical book that mentions Baal berith and El berith. It is not clear whether they are separate forms of the gods Ba al and El god El or are actually one god. Scholars suppose that he or they may have been a fertility and vegetation god s , based on Judges 9 27. Also unclear is what covenant or covenants are referred to by the name Berith . In Judges 9 28 some of the Shechemites are called men of Hamor this is compared to sons of Hamor , which in the ancient Middle East referred to people who had entered into a covenant sealed by the sacrifice of a hamor , an ass. ref name DDD Children sons of Hamor itself appears in Genesis 33 19 and Joshua 24 32, in both of which, as in Judges 9 28, Hamor is called the father of Shechem. Genesis 34 features a man named Hamor who ruled in the area of Shechem Gen. 33 18 and had a son named Shechem . Rabbinic tradition equates Baal berith with Beelzebub , the god of Philistines Philistine Ekron . ref cite web url http jewishencyclopedia.com view.jsp?artid 4&letter B&search Berith title JewishEncyclopedia.com BAAL BERITH accessdate 2010 04 06 ref In his Euhemerus euhemeristic account of the Phoenicia n deities, Sanchuniathon says that a certain Elyon Elioun , called also the Most High , and a female named B ... more details
S mingr was a king of Norway according to Snorri Sturluson s Euhemerus euhemerized accounts. He was said to be the son of Odin or Freyr Yngvi Freyr . According to the Prologue of the Prose Edda prologue of the Prose Edda , S mingr was one of the sons of Odin and the ancestor of the kings of Norway and of the jarls of Hla ir . Snorri relates that Odin settled in Sweden and After that he went into the north, until he was stopped by the sea, which men thought lay around all the lands of the earth and there he set his son over this kingdom, which is now called Norway. This king was S mingr the kings of Norway trace their lineage from him, and so do also the Jarl title jarls and the other mighty men, as is said in the H leygjatal . Prologue of the Prose Edda small 11 small http www.sacred texts.com neu pre pre03.htm Brodeur s translation In the Ynglinga saga , Snorri adds that S mingr s mother was Ska i Nj r r Njord took a wife called Skade but she would not live with him and married afterwards Odin, and had many sons by him, of whom one was called Saeming and about him Eyvindr sk ldaspillir Eyvind Skaldaspiller sings thus ref H leygjatal , stanza 3. ref To Asa s son Queen Skade bore Saeming, who dyed his shield in gore, The giant queen of rock and snow, Who loves to dwell on earth below, The J rnvi r iron pine tree s daughter, she Sprung from the rocks that rib the sea, To Odin bore full many a son, Heroes of many a battle won. To Saeming Haakon Sigurdsson Earl Hakon the Great reckoned back his pedigree. The Ynglinga Saga small 8 small , http omacl.org Heimskringla ynglinga.html Laing s translation S mingr is also listed among the sons of Odin in the ulur . But in the prologue of the Heimskringla Snorri mentions that according to a lost stanza of Eyvindr sk ldaspillir s H leygjatal , S mingr was the son of Yngvi Freyr. The late H lfdanar saga Eysteinssonar Saga of H lfdan Eysteinsson also reports that S mingr was Odin s son. The saga adds that he reigned over H logaland ... more details
Imaginary voyage is a kind of narrative in which utopia n or satire satirical representation or some popular science content is put into a fictional frame of travel account. History It is very archaic narrative technique preceding Romanticism romance and novel istic forms. Two known examples from Greek literature are Euhemerus Sacred History and Iambulus Islands of the Sun . Their utopian islands are apparently modeled from mythological Fortunate Isles . Lucian s True History parodizes the whole genre of imaginary voyage, and in his foreword Lucian cites Iambulus as one of objects of parody. Photios I of Constantinople Photius states though in his Bibliotheca Photius Bibliotheca that its main object was Antonius Diogenes The incredible wonders beyond Thule , a genre blending of fantastic voyage and Greek romance which popularized Pythagoreanism Pythagorean teachings. The first to revive this form in the Modern era was Thomas More in his Utopia book Utopia 1515 , to be followed a century later by proliferation of utopian islands Johannes Valentinus Andreae s Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio 1619 , Tommaso Campanella s The City of the Sun 1623 , Francis Bacon s New Atlantis 1627 , Jacob Bidermann s Utopia 1640 , Denis Veiras The history of the Sevarambi 1675 , Gabriel de Foigny s La Terre australe connue 1676 , Gabriel Daniel s Voyage du monde de Descartes 1690 , Fran ois Lefebvre s Relation du voyage de l isle d Eutopie 1711 , as well as many others. Lucian s satirical line was exploited by Fran ois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel 1532 and developed later on in Joseph Hall bishop Joseph Hall s Mundus alter et idem 1607 , Fran ois H delin s Histoire du temps 1654 , Cyrano de Bergerac s Histoire comique contenant les tats et Empires de la Lune 1657 and Fragments d histoire comique contenant les tats et Empires du Soleil 1662 , Charles Sorel s Nouvelle D couverte du Royaume de Frisquemore 1662 , Margaret Cavendish s The Blazing World 1666 , Joshua Barnes G ... more details
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dablink For other uses see Inachus disambiguation Refimprove date December 2009 In Greek mythology , Inachus Ancient Greek polytonic was a king of Argos after whom a river was called Inachus River, ref Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Apollodorus , Library, http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus text 1999.01.0022 text Library book 2 chapter 1&highlight nauplius note link1 Apollod. 2.1 ref the modern Panitsa that drains the western margin of the Argolis Argive plain . ref http www.theoi.com Potamos PotamosInakhos.html TheoiProject Inakhos ref Though John Lempri re Euhemerus euhemeristically asserted in 1812 that he was king of Argos , with a confident date of circa 1856 BC ref Name Lempri re cite book last Lempri re first John title A classical dictionary publisher year 1812 location Original from Oxford University pages url http books.google.com books?id KiIIAAAAQAAJ&pg PT456&dq Lyrcus&lr &as brr 1&ie ISO 8859 1 doi id ref and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus , most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river god s, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys mythology Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the Twelve Olympians pre Olympian or Pelasgian mythic landscape in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, ref Burkert, Greek Religion , 1985 Nature deities 3.3, p.175 ref the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face. In the Danaan founding myth , Poseidon had dried up the springs of the Argolid out of anger at Inachus for testifying that the land belonged to the ancient goddess, Hera to counter this drought, Danaus sent his daughters to draw water. One of them, Amymone, in her search lay with Poseidon, and he revealed to her the springs at Lerna . ref Pseudo Apollodorus, Bibliotheke 2.1.4 http www.theoi.com Text Apollodorus2.html TheoiProject on line text . ref As rivers are generally fertile, Inachus had many children, the chief of whom were his two sons, Phoroneus and Aegialeus or Phegeus , and ... more details
orphan date January 2010 The abb Antoine Banier 1673 1741 , a French clergyman and member of the Acad mie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres from 1713 ref His antiquarian contributions to the Acad mie s Transactions are less remembered today. ref , was a historian ref His ambitious social history Histoire g n rale des c r monies, moeurs, et co tumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde , General history of the ceremonies, morals and customs of all the world s peoples ref and translator, whose rationalizing interpretation of Greek mythology was widely accepted until the mid nineteenth century. Banier, born at Dallet in Auvergne province Auvergne and educated at the Jesuit college at Clermont Ferrand Clermont , arrived in Paris as a young man and held a place as tutor to the children of pr sident Dumetz. ref These biographical details are drawn from Bouillet Chassang, Dictionnaire universel d histoire et de g ographie , s.v. Antoine Banier . The pr sident Dumetz in question may have been a member of the family Dumetz de Rosnay, which held several posts in the Chambre des comptes and as ma tre des requ tes during the eighteenth century. L tat civil , in M moires de la Soci t de l Histoire de Paris et de l Ile de France 26 1899 290 ref In his Mythologie et la fable expliqu s par l histoire 1711, recast in dialogue form in 1715, enthusiastically received ref See for example Journal des s avans , 1715 246 252 . ref and often reprinted ref The original title is Explication historique des fables o l on d couvre leur origine et leur conformit avec l histoire ancienne , Historical explication of fables where one discovers their origin and their conformity to ancient history . The third edition 1738 is the definitive one, under the more familiar title. ref he offered a frankly Euhemerus Euhemerist reading of the origins of Greek mythology , seen as the gradually deified accounts of actual personages see Euhemerus Euhemerism . The Advertisement to the English translati ... more details
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