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HYGINUS, FABULAE 1 - 49. GAIUS JULIUS HYGINUS was a Latin writer who flourished in Roman Spain in the C1st AD. Two extant collections of fables were attributed to him: the Fabulae (or Fables) and Astronomica (or Astronomy). The poor quality of these works lead most to believe they are either wrongly attributed to this distinguished scholar or ...
AEGINA. When Jupiter wished to lie with Aegina, the daughter of Asopus, he feared Juno, and took the girl to the island of Delos, and there made her pregnant. Aeacus was their son. When Juno found this out, she sent a serpent into the water which poisoned it, and if anyone drank from it, he paid the debt to nature.
FABLES 150 - 199, TRANSLATED BY MARY GRANT. [150] CL. WAR WITH THE TITANS. After Juno saw that Epaphus, born of a concubine, ruled such a great kingdom, she saw to it that he should be killed while hunting, and encouraged the Titans to drive Jove from the kingdom and restore it to Saturn.
Gaius Julius Hyginus ( / hɪˈdʒaɪnəs /; c. 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' De Grammaticis, 20. [1]
Of the other known authors named Hyginus, the only one with a connection to the Fabulae is the author of the De Astronomia, a work in four books on all matters astronomical, including, in the second book, origin myths for the constellations.
Hyginus describes Eleutheria as a daughter of Zeus and Hera. [3] In Roman mythology, Demeter ( Ceres) has a daughter named Libera ("Liberty/Freedom"). Modern interpretations.
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Jun 3, 2022 · Eleutheria is a fascinating Greek deity both in what she represents and because of how poorly known she is. She’s the type of goddess you’d expect to be worshipped all across the land by the freedom-loving democratically inclined Greeks.
