Aristaeus
mythological figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Aristaeus in Ceos · Aristaeus the elder · long haired Aristaeus
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Son of Apollo credited with discovering the olive, cited as a test case for divine sonship
What of Aristaeus, who is said to be the discoverer of the olive, the son of Apollo;
Stromata
Legendary figure credited with recalling the Etesian winds through sacrifice to Zeus Icmaeus.
Again, the Greeks record that, when the Etesian winds once failed, Aristaeus in Ceos sacrificed to Zeus Icmaeus;
Elements
Elder contemporary of Euclid, author of works on Solid Loci and on the comparison of the five regular solids.
, and his work on the regular solids was soon followed by another, that of Aristaeus, an elder contemporary of Euclid, who also wrote an important book on Solid Loci, i.
This is proved by Aristaeus in the book entitled Comparison of the five figures.
171) that, as Aristaeus' work was the newest and latest in which, before Euclid's time, this subject was treated, we have in Eucl.
Bacchae
Actaeon's father, whose land is named as the destination of Agave's exile.
For I saw Autonoe, who once bore Actaeon to Aristaeus, and Ino with her, still mad in the thicket, wretched creatures.
Go now, child, to the land of Aristaeus.
Theogony
A hero who marries Autonoe, daughter of Cadmus.
And Harmonia, the daughter of golden Aphrodite, bore to Cadmus Ino and Semele and fair-cheeked Agave and Autonoe whom long haired Aristaeus wedded, and Polydorus also in rich-crowned Thebes.