According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.

Apollodorus lists three, Therimachus, Creontiades and Deicoon ; to these Hyginus adds Ophitus and, probably by mistake, Archelaus, who is otherwise known to have belonged to the Heracleidae, but to have lived several generations later.

According to Hyginus, sirens were fated to live only until the mortals who heard their songs were able to pass by them.

Hyginus, whose story on the whole agrees with that of Ovid, and all the other writers who mention this adventure of Bacchus, call the crew of the ship Tyrrhenian pirates and derive the name of the Tyrrhenian Sea from them.

Hyginus ' genealogy expresses the position of Phoroneus as one of the primordial men, whose local identities differed in the various regions of Greece, and who had for a mother the essential spirit of the very earth of Argos herself, Argia.

As Helymus, he is also listed among the competitors by Hyginus, who says he finished second to Euryalus and was awarded an Amazonian quiver.

Among the scholars who recounted it are Apollodorus, Hyginus, and Antoninus Liberalis.

In Greek mythology, Melisseus (" bee-man "), the father of the nymphs Adrasteia and Ide ( or Aega, according to Hyginus ) who nursed the infant Zeus on Crete, was the eldest and leader of the nine Kuretes of Crete.

The Bibliotheca places these events before the expedition of the Greeks against Troy, while Hyginus states that Diomedes, when he heard, after the fall of Troy, of the misfortune of his grandfather Oeneus, hastened back and expelled Agrius, who then committed suicide ; according to others, Agrius and his sons were all slain by Diomedes.

Sisyphus, who was commonly known for being a crafty king that killed guests, seduced his niece and stole his brothers ' throne ( Hyginus 50-99 ) and was banished to the throes of Tartarus by the gods.

* Hyginus, who in his Fabulae ( Latin ) calls her Argia.

He is mentioned by Hyginus, who gives his parents as Pallas and Diomede.

It was further suggested that these treatises are an abridgment made in the latter half of the 2nd century of the Genealogiae of Hyginus by an unknown adapter, who added a complete treatise on mythology.

* Julius Modestus, a freedman of Gaius Julius Hyginus, who became a distinguished grammarian, and the author of Quaestiones Confusae.

Hyginus had contact with several men associated with Catullus who very likely knew Lesbia ’ s true identity.

This legend includes the story of three monks ( Theophilus, Sergius, and Hyginus ) who " wished to discover the point where the sky and the earth touch " ( in Latin: ubi cœlum terræ se conjungit ).

Under Trajan a certain Balbus, who had accompanied the emperor on his Dacian campaign, wrote a still extant manual of geometry for land surveyors ( Expositio et ratio omnium formarum or mensurarum, probably after a Greek original by Hero ), dedicated to a certain Celsus who had invented an improvement in a gromatic instrument ( perhaps the dioptra, resembling the modern theodolite ); for the treatises of Hyginus see that name.

In Hyginus ' Fabulae, Odysseus also goes to the lower world from this spot where he meets Elpenor, his comrade who went missing at Circe's place .< references > hyginus, fabulae 125 </ references >

During the Renaissance, the work was attributed to the Roman historian Gaius Julius Hyginus who lived during the 1st century BC However, the fact that the book lists most of the constellations north of the ecliptic in the same order as Ptolemy's Almagest ( written in the 2nd century AD ) has led many to believe that a more recent Hyginus created the text.

Although the play survived only in brief fragments, the myth of Charnabon and Triptolemus is preserved in the Poetical Astronomy by Hyginus ( who refers to the king as " Carnabon "), and runs as follows.

A later Greek legend, preserved in Hyginus ' Fabulae, states that she had a son by Agamemnon.

In his Fabulae, written around 1 A. D. Hyginus states that King Cinyras of Assyria had a daughter with his wife, Cenchreis.

The poet Bacchylides states that Nyx and Chronos are the parents, but Hyginus in his preface to the Fabulae mentions Chaos as the mother / father and Nyx as her sister.

Hyginus states that Silvanus was the first to set up stones to mark the limits of fields, and that every estate had three Silvani:

He states that Hyginus recorded the tale on the authority of a Protarchus of Tralles.

There are three available and not entirely consistent lists of suitors, compiled by Pseudo-Apollodorus ( 31 suitors ), Hesiod ( 11 suitors ), and Hyginus ( 36 suitors ), for a total of 45 distinct names.

There are several versions of the contest ; according to Hyginus, Marsyas was departing as victor after the first round, when Apollo, turning his lyre upside down, played the same tune.

Under the name of Hyginus there are extant what are probably two sets of school notes abbreviating his treatises on mythology ; one is a collection of Fabulae (" stories "), the other a " Poetical Astronomy ".

The lunar crater Hyginus and the minor planet 12155 Hyginus are named after him.

Among Hyginus ' sources are the scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica, which were dated to about the time of Tiberius by Apollonius ' editor R. Merkel, in the preface to his edition of Apollonius ( Leipzig, 1854 ).

De Astronomia was first published, with accompanying figures, by Erhard Ratdolt in Venice, 1482, under the title Clarissimi uiri Hyginii Poeticon astronomicon opus utilissimum This " Poetic astronomy by the most renowned Hyginus, a most useful work ," chiefly tells us the myths connected with the constellations, in versions that are chiefly based on Catasterismi, a work that was traditionally attributed to Eratosthenes.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Hyginus.

The practice was also codified as a system by technical writers such as Julius Frontinus, Hyginus, Siculus Flaccus, and other Gromatic writers, as they are sometimes termed.

The functions of the agrimensor are shown by a passage of Hyginus, in all questions as to determining boundaries by means of the marks ( signa ), the area of surfaces, and explaining maps and plans, the services of the agrimensor were required: in all questions that concerned property, right of road, enjoyment of water, and other easements ( servitutes ) they were not required, for these were purely legal questions.

This list is correlated from four sources: the Bibliotheca, Hesiod, Homer, and Hyginus.

Pope Saint Hyginus was bishop of Rome from about 136 or 138 to about 140 or 142.

Cerdo, another Gnostic and predecessor of Marcion, also lived at Rome in the reign of Hyginus ; by confessing his errors and recanting he succeeded in obtaining readmission into the bosom of the Church, but eventually he fell back into the heresies and was expelled from the Church.

Many attempts have been made to reconstruct the plot of the play, but none of them is more than hypothetical, because of the scanty remains that survive from its text and of the total absence of ancient descriptions or résumés-though it has been suggested that a part of Hyginus ' narration of the Oedipus myth might in fact derive from Euripides ' play.

However, Hyginus wrote that he was descended directly from Tartarus and Gaia, and referred to him as one of the Gigantes.

For this transgression, according to Hyginus, Agave was exiled from Thebes and fled to Illyria to marry King Lycotherses, and then killed him in order to gain the city for her father Cadmus.

According to Hyginus, the cause of the Titanomachy is as follows: " After Hera saw that Epaphus, born of a concubine, ruled such a great kingdom ( Egypt ), she saw to it that he should be killed while hunting, and encouraged the Titans to drive Zeus from the kingdom and restore it to Cronus, ( Saturn ).

Hyginus mentions the opinion of a Hegesianax that Deucalion is to be identified with Aquarius, " because during his reign such quantities of water poured from the sky that the great Flood resulted.

The names " Clymenus " and " Merope " in Hyginus ' version, which is not followed otherwise, may have resulted from incidental gender swap of the names of the Oceanid Clymene and her mortal husband Merops.

According to Hyginus ' Fabulae, the story runs like this: " When Laodamia, daughter of Acastus, after her husband's loss had spent the three hours which she had asked from the gods, she could not endure her weeping and grief.

It was said that he " loved to make white of black, and black of white, from a hornless animal to a horned one, or from horned one to a hornless " ( Hyginus 201 ).

Even from the most ancient times Roman camps were constructed according to a certain ideal pattern, formally described in two main sources, the De Metatione Castrorum or De Munitionibus Castrorum by either Hyginus Gromaticus or Pseudo-Hyginus and the works of Polybius.

Apuleius ' information is thought to have come from Suetonius ' de poetis, or Suetonius ' most important source, a work on late Republican and Augustan period poets by Gaius Julius Hyginus.

The 1st-century AD Roman fabulist Hyginus differs from Proclus in adding a few details.

* Archbishop Hyginus Kim Hee Jong ( 2010 -); had served as Auxiliary Bishop, then as Coadjutor Archbishop from 2009-2010.

Hyginus recounts of a letter presumably sent to Palamedes from Priam but in fact written by Odysseus.

A story told by the Roman Hyginus in the Poeticon astronomicon ( ultimately based on Greek myth ) says that the milk came from the goddess Ops ( Greek Rhea ), or Opis, the wife of Saturn ( Greek Cronus ).