According to Virgil in the fourth Georgic, at one time the bees of Aristaeus, son of Apollo, all died of a disease.

Ancient scholars, such as Servius, conjectured that the Aristaeus episode replaced a long section in praise of Virgil's friend, the poet Gallus, who was disgraced by Augustus and committed suicide in 26 BC.

Actaeon (; ), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero.

A minor god in Greek mythology, which we read largely through Athenian writers, Aristaeus or Aristaios (), " ever close follower of the flocks ", was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping ; he was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene.

If Aristaeus was a minor figure at Athens, he was more prominent in Boeotia, where he was " the pastoral Apollo " and was linked to the founding myth of Thebes by marriage with Autonoë, daughter of Cadmus, the founder.

When Aristaeus was born, according to what Pindar sang, Hermes took him to be raised on nectar and ambrosia and be made immortal by Gaia.

In the foundation legend of a specifically Cean weather-magic ritual, Aristaeus was credited with the double sacrifice that countered the deadly effects of the Dog-Star, a sacrifice at dawn to Zeus Ikmaios, " Rain-making Zeus " at a mountaintop altar following a pre-dawn chthonic sacrifice to Sirius, the Dog-Star, at its first annual appearance, which brought the annual relief of the cooling Etesian winds.

By the time of Virgil's Georgics, the myth has Aristaeus chasing Eurydice when she was bitten by a serpent and died.

She was the wife of Aristaeus and mother of Actaeon and possibly Macris.

Proteus among the gods was particularly noted for his shape-shifting ; both Menelaus and Aristaeus seized him to win information from him, and succeeded only because they held on during his manifold shape changes.

Eurydice, for whom Orpheus traveled into dark Hades, was an Auloniad, and it was in the valley of the Thessalian river Pineios where she met her death, indirectly, at the hands of Aristaeus.

In Greek mythology, Macris was a daughter of Aristaeus and Autonoe.

Greek myth attributed to the primordial culture-hero Aristaeus the understanding of olive husbandry, along with cheese-making and bee-keeping.

Then Aristaeus, on his civilizing mission, visited Arcadia, where the winged male figure who appears on ivory tablets in the sanctuary of Ortheia as the consort of the goddess has been identified as Aristaeus by L. Marangou.

Aristaeus, after losing his bees, descends to the home of his mother, the nymph Cyrene, where he is given instructions on how to restore his colonies.

Aristaeus went to his mother, Cyrene, for help ; she told him that Proteus could tell him how to prevent another such disaster, but would do so only if compelled.

Aristaeus had to seize Proteus and hold him, no matter what he would change into.

By Cyrene, Apollo had a son named Aristaeus, who became the patron god of cattle, fruit trees, hunting, husbandry and bee-keeping.

When Aristaeus returned after the three days he found in one of the carcasses a swarm of bees, which he took to his apiary.

Book 4 concludes with a long mythological narrative, in the form of an epyllion which describes vividly the discovery of beekeeping by Aristaeus and the story of Orpheus ' journey to the underworld.

Together, she and Apollo had two sons: Aristaeus, the demigod who invented beekeeping, and Idmon, the Argonaut seer.

Aristaeus may appear as a winged youth in painted Boeotian pottery, similar to representations of the Boreads, spirits of the North Wind.

In a development that offered more immediate causality for the myth, Aristaeus discerned that the Ceans ' troubles arose from murderers hiding in their midst, the killers of Icarius in fact.

Aristaeus appears on Cean coins.

Aristaeus settled for a time in the Vale of Tempe.

Genoese is not a likely possibility as Corsican is attested before the presence of Genoa on Corsica, and the linguistic features of Corsican do not match well with those of Genoese.

The intense heat of the flame made necessary the presence of heat shields made of iron ( βουκόλια, boukolia ), which are attested in the fleet inventories.

9th-century Euboean and Cypriote presence on the island is attested by ceramics, while a Phoenician presence is noted at Erythrae, the traditional competitor of Chios on the mainland.

Luke's presence in Rome with the Apostle Paul near the end of Paul's life was attested by 2 Timothy 4: 11: " Only Luke is with me ".

Their presence is attested in Catalonia in 1371.

However, the presence of man in the Lower Paleolithic is attested by the discovery of stone tools characteristic of Acheulean such as hand axes reported by Théodore Monod at the tip of Fann in the peninsula of Cap-Vert in 1938, or cleavers found in the south-east .< ref > Abdoulaye Camara et Bertrand Duboscq, La préhistoire dans le Sud-Est du Sénégal, Actes du 2 < sup > e </ sup > Colloque de Kédougou, 18 – 22 fév.

Their presence was attested at Nuzi, Urkesh and other sites.

Vietnam, where their presence is attested from the late 18th century onwards, is likely to be the first Indochinese country into which the Hmong migrated.

In the late 1990s, several thousands of Hmong have started moving to the Central Highlands and some have crossed the border into Cambodia, constituting the first attested presence of Hmong settlers in that country.

The minting of solidi is attested for the mint of Arelate in 458, a fact compatible with the presence of Majorian in Gaul in that year.

The Flint River had several convenient fords which became points of contention among rival tribes, as attested by the presence of arrowheads and burial mounds near Flushing.

In this way, Laxness believed that Njáls saga attested to the presence of a " very strong heathen spirit ", antithetical to Christianity, in 13th century Iceland.

The presence in Jerusalem of the relic is attested by Cassiodorus ( c. 485 – c. 585 ) as well as by Gregory of Tours ( c. 538 – 594 ), who had not actually been to Jerusalem.

At any rate, its presence at Constantinople seems to be clearly attested by various pilgrims, particularly Russians, and, though it was deposited in various churches in succession, it seems possible to trace it and distinguish it from the relic of the point.

The earliest known evidence of a human presence in what is now Oldham is attested by the discovery of Neolithic flint arrow-heads and workings found at Werneth and Besom Hill, implying habitation 7 – 10, 000 years ago.

Otherwise, their presence is to be inferred mostly through the effects they have on neighboring sounds, and on patterns of alternation that they participate in ; when a laryngeal is attested directly, it is usually as a vowel ( as in the Greek examples below ).

The presence of Samaritans in the city is attested to in literary and epigraphic evidence dating to the 4th century CE.

The proximity with northern France, the numerous intermarriages ( as attested by the presence of surnames of both origins on either side of the border ), the close economic relations, the French occupation between 1792 and 1815, the standarisation of French in education, as well as modern media, have all contributed in making modern Belgian French almost identical to its Gallic counterpart.

The presence of wealthy Romans is attested by the mosaic floors of Roman villas, and Kornat island has a small tower, Toreta, that was probably built in the 6th century AD.

The presence of Jews at Siedlce is attested from the mid-16th century-inn keepers, merchants and artisans.

By the 3rd century, there is evidence that some early Christians accepted this Jewish Enochic pseudepigraphy and the application of the angelic descent myth to the " sons of God " passage in, Its presence not only in the East but also in the Latin-speaking West is attested by the polemic of Augustine of Hippo ( 354 – 430 ) against the motif of giants born of the union between fallen angels and human women.

The Ahlamû (= wanderers ) are first mentioned in the el-Amarna letters alluding to the king of Babylon ; the presence of the Ahlamû are also attested in Assyria, Nippur and even at Dilmun ( Bahrain ); Shalmaneser I ( 1274-1245 BC ) defeated the Shattuara, King of Mitanni and his Hittite and Ahlamû mercenaries are mentioned in the Jazirah.

Archaeological findings have attested human presence in the area from the Bronze Age ; the first historical inhabitants were the Lusitanians, followed by the Celts, who came from east to the Pyrenees.