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.

Hyginus adds a fourth, Persis ( Περσις " destroyer, slayer ") or Perso ( Περσώ ).

Hyginus adds that his father was Erebus.

Hyginus then adds that Odysseus had received an oracle to beware his son.

The later writers Ovid ( Heroides 16. 71ff, 149 – 152 and 5. 35f ), Lucian ( Dialogues of the Gods 20 ), The Bibliotheca ( Epitome E. 3. 2 ) and Hyginus ( Fabulae 92 ), retell the story with skeptical, ironic or popularizing agendas.

A similar story is found in Hyginus, according to whom Scylla was the daughter of the river god Crataeis and was loved by Glaucus, but Glaucus himself was also loved by the sorceress Circe.

" Walter Burkert notes that the story of Io was told in the ancient epic tradition at least four times of which we have traces: in the Danais, in the Phoronis — Phoroneus founded the cult of Hera, according to Hyginus ' Fabulae 274 and 143 — in a fragment of the Hesiodic Aigimios, as well as in similarly fragmentary Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.

There is a story in the Fabulae 167 of Gaius Julius Hyginus, or a later author whose work has been attributed to Hyginus.

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.

This account, however, is manifestly transplaced by Hyginus, and must have belonged to an earlier part of the story of Agave.

The story is also briefly referred to by Hyginus and retold by Pseudo-Plutarch, in whose account Macareus kills himself over the matter as well.

Other sources for the story of the Sack of Troy and Astyanax's death can be found in the Bibliotheca ( Pseudo-Apollodorus ), Hyginus ( Fabula 109 ), Tryphiodorus ( Sack of Troy 644 – 6 ).

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.

* The story of Ixion is also told by Pseudo-Apollodorus Epitome of the Bibliotheca, 1. 20 ; Diodorus Siculus, 4. 69. 3 -. 5 ; Hyginus, Fabulae 33 ( mention ) and 62 ; Virgil in Georgics 4 and Aeneid 6, and by Ovid in Metamorphoses 12.

Hyginus seems to have created both the personification and story for his Fabulae, poem 220.

According, however, to Hyginus, on whose authority alone the whole story rests, Agnodice disguised herself in men's clothing, and attended the lectures of a physician named Hierophilus, devoting herself chiefly to the study of midwifery and gynaecology.

For, in the first place, if the story is to be believed at all upon the authority of Hyginus, it would seem to belong rather to the 5th or 6th century BC than the 3rd or 4th ; secondly, we have no reason for thinking that Agnodice was ever at Alexandria, or Herophilus at Athens ; and thirdly, it seems hardly probable that Hyginus would have called a so celebrated physician " a certain Hierophilus " ( Herophilus quidam.

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 ).

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 ).

According to Hyginus, in total, Ajax killed 28 people at Troy.

According to Hyginus, 22 Achaeans killed 362 Trojans during their ten years at Troy.

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.

Hyginus ' calling the eagle that tormented Prometheus an aethonem aquilam at Fabulae 31. 5.

Hyginus surmised that he was originally known as Iolaus — not to be confused with Iolaus, the nephew of Heracles —, but was referred to as " Protesilaus " after being the first (, protos ) to die at Troy.

Ovid and Servius suggest that Hippomenes forgot to pay the tribute to Aphrodite he had promised for helping him, and consequently, during the two's stay at Cybele's temple, Aphrodite caused them to have sex after going mad with lust, knowing that this would scorn Cybele, and this indeed resulted in Cybele ( or Zeus according to Hyginus ) transforming them into lions.

" Hyginus ' compilation represents in primitive form what every educated Roman in the age of the Antonines was expected to know of Greek myth, at the simplest level.

According to Homer, Calypso kept Odysseus hostage at Ogygia for seven years, while Pseudo-Apollodorus says five years and Hyginus says one.

Hyginus is a small lunar caldera located at the east end of the Sinus Medii.

Beyond, to the northeast, is the Rima Hyginus valley, with the crater Hyginus at the midpoint.

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 >

According to " NASA OMSF, Manned Space Flight Weekly Report " dated July 28, 1969, Apollo 18 would have landed at Schröter's Valley in February 1972, Apollo 19 in the Hyginus rille region in July 1972, and Apollo 20 in Copernicus crater in December 1972.

According to Hyginus, he was killed by Aeetes, if indeed the text is not corrupt ; according to Diodorus Siculus, however, he was killed by Heracles during the latter's war against Eurytus.

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

Ten Suitors listed only by Hyginus

The only other author that gives the dimensions of the Mausoleum is Hyginus a grammarian in the time of Augustus.

According to Hyginus, the list is only of nine:

Among the Trojans he killed were Melanippus, Ablerus, Atymnius, Phalces, and Thoon, although Hyginus records that he only killed two Trojans.

Hyginus lists their children as Uranus, Gaia, and Thalassa ( the primordial sea goddess ), while Hesiod only lists Thalassa as their child.

Eurypylus slew no less than four opponents, including the aforementioned Apisaon, Hypsenor, Melanthius and Axion: this makes the account of Hyginus wrong in informing that Eurypylus killed only one defender of Troy.

Pope Telesphorus, Pope Hyginus, Pope Pius I, Pope Anicetus ( later transferred to the Catacomb of Callixtus ), Pope Victor I. Epigraphic evidence exists only for Linus, with the discovery of a burial slab marked " Linus " in 1615 ; however, the slab is broken such that it could have once read " Aquilinius " or " Anullinus ".

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.

During the Renaissance, printing of Catasterismi, invariably attributed to Eratosthenes, began early, but the work was always overshadowed by Hyginus, the only other ancient repertory of catasterisms.