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Hyginus explained the presence of snakes, saying that Hermes was traveling in Arcadia when he saw two snakes intertwined in battle.
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Hyginus and snakes
After seven years as a woman, Tiresias again found mating snakes ; depending on the myth, either she made sure to leave the snakes alone this time, or, according to Hyginus, trampled on them.
Hyginus records that it was on Cyllene that the seer Tiresias changed sex when he struck two copulating snakes.
Hyginus and Hermes
* One of the Argonauts, son of Hermes and Antianeira ( daughter of Menoetius ), brother of Erytus ; participated in the Calydonian Boar Hunt, according to Hyginus and Ovid.
Hyginus calls Creusa mother of Cephalus by Hermes.
Autolycus obtained most of the same skills that his supposed father Hermes possesses, such as the art of theft, trickery ( Hyginus 201 ), and skill with the lyre and gracious song ( Ovid 11.
Hyginus and was
Later writers were shocked by the incest: in Hyginus, the day Aeolus learned that one of his sons, Macareus, had committed incest with his sister Canace he expelled Macareus and threw the child born of this incestuous union to the dogs, and sent his daughter a sword by which she was to kill herself.
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.
In Hyginus ' report, Cephalus accidentally killed Procris some time later after he mistook her for an animal while hunting ; in Ovid's Metamorphoses vii, Procris, a jealous wife, was spying on him and heard him singing to the wind, but thought he was serenading his ex-lover Eos.
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.
Atalanta was the daughter of Iasus ( or Mainalos or Schoeneus, according to Hyginus ), a Boeotian ( according to Hesiod ) or an Arcadian princess ( according to the Bibliotheca ).
According to Hyginus, Menelaus killed eight men in the war, and was one of the Greeks hidden inside the Trojan Horse.
" 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.
Pope Saint Hyginus was bishop of Rome from about 136 or 138 to about 140 or 142.
According to the Liber Pontificalis, Hyginus was a Greek born in Athens.
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, however, writes that in his madness he tried to attack the temple of Apollo, and was killed by the god's arrows.
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.
In Greek mythology, Phoroneus ( Φορωνεύς ) was a culture-hero of the Argolid, fire-bringer, primordial king of Argos and son of the river god Inachus and either Melia, the primordial ash-tree nymph or Argia, the embodiment of the Argolid itself: " Inachus, son of Oceanus, begat Phoroneus by his sister Argia ," wrote Hyginus, in Fabulae 143.
The name Nycteus signifies " of the night ", as does Nyctimene in the following variant: according to accounts by the Roman Gaius Julius Hyginus and in Ovid's Metamorphoses ( ii. 590 ), an Epopeus was a king of Lesbos.
A myth reported as " Egyptian " in Gaius Julius Hyginus ' Poetic Astronomy that would seem to be invented to justify a connection of Pan with Capricorn says that when Aegipan — that is Pan in his goat-god aspect — was attacked by the monster Typhon, he dove into the Nile ; the parts above the water remained a goat, but those under the water transformed into a fish.
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.
The mythographers Pseudo-Apollodorus and Hyginus leave open the question which of the two was her father, with Pseudo-Apollodorus adding a third alternate option: Hecuba's parents could as well be the river god Sangarius and Metope.
Hyginus ( who states that the dog and javelin are gifts from the goddess Artemis ) and Antoninus, however, write that she disguised herself as a boy and seduced her husband, so that he too was guilty, and they were reconciled.
According to Virgil's Aeneid ( 5. 38 ) and Hyginus ' Fabulae ( 273 ), Crinisus was the father of Acestes by a Dardanian woman.
Hyginus and Arcadia
According to Apollodorus, but not present in the list of Pausanias or Hyginus, Macednus is the tenth of the fifty sons of Lycaon king of Arcadia.
Hyginus and when
Ovid and Hyginus both also make the metamorphosis the origin of the etymology for " halcyon days ," the seven days in winter when storms never occur.
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.
The version related by Hyginus holds that when Zeus lay with the goddess Leto, and she was to deliver Artemis and Apollo, Hera sent Python to pursue her throughout the lands, so that she could not deliver wherever the sun shone.
However, another version of the tale, transmitted in Servius's commentary on Aeneid 3. 14 and Hyginus in his Fabulae 132, records that Lycurgus cut off his own foot when he meant to cut down a vine of ivy.
In July 2009, Auxiliary Bishop Hyginus Kim Hee Joong was named Coadjutor Archbishop by Pope Benedict XVI to succeed Archbishop Andrew Chang-mu Choi when Archbishop Choi resigns or dies.
Hyginus and saw
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 and two
In two late Roman sources, Hyginus and Ovid, Pan is substituted for the satyr Marsyas in the theme of a musical competition ( agon ), and the punishment by flaying is omitted.
Among the more prominent of Priscillian's friends were two bishops, Instantius and Salvianus ; Hyginus of Cordova also joined the party.
Apollodorus ' Library and Hyginus ' Fabulae: two handbooks of Greek mythology.
Among the Trojans he killed were Melanippus, Ablerus, Atymnius, Phalces, and Thoon, although Hyginus records that he only killed two Trojans.
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 ".
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.
The Apollo 20 mission had been canceled two months before, but the report still suggested its target, Hyginus rille, possibly as an alternative Apollo 19 landing site.
Hyginus and .
Gaius Julius Hyginus ( Fab.
He kills 28 people in the Trojan War, and his career during that war is retold by Roman historian Gaius Julius Hyginus ( c. 64 BC – AD 17 ) in his Fabulae.
According to Hyginus, in total, Ajax killed 28 people at Troy.
Another list of Amazons ' names is found in Hyginus ' Fabulae.
According to Hyginus, 22 Achaeans killed 362 Trojans during their ten years at Troy.
In a late rendering by Hyginus, ( Poetical Astronomy ii.
* Hyginus, attrib., Poeticon astronomicon, II. 1: the Great Bear.
* Gaius Julius Hyginus ( Hyginus, Latin author, native of Spain or Alexandria, ca.
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.
1175-1280 ( c. 250 BC ); Bibliotheca 1. 9. 19, 2. 7. 7 ( 140 BC ); Sextus Propertius, Elegies, i. 20. 17ff ( 50 – 15 BC ); Ovid, Ibis, 488 ( AD 8 – 18 ); Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, I. 110, III. 535, 560, IV. 1-57 ( 1st century ); Hyginus, Fables, 14.
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