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A name given by Ovid to one of the three Cyclopes, called by Vergil Pyracmon, and by other writers Arges.
Libystinus, that is, the Libyan, a surname under which Apollo was worshipped by the Sicilians, because he was believed to have destroyed by a pestilence a Libyan fleet which sailed against Sicily. (Macrob. Sat. i. 17.)
A mythical king of Sicily, the friend of Aeneas (Verg. Aen. v. 757).
A Sicilian shepherd, son of Hermes by a nymph, and taught by
Pan to play on the flute. He was regarded as the inventor of bucolic poetry. A
Naiad, to whom he proved faithless, punished him with blindness, whereupon his
father Hermes translated him to heaven.
Daphnis, a Sicilian hero, to whom the invention of bucolic poetry is ascribed. He is called a son of Hermes by a nymph (Diod. iv. 84), or merely the beloved of Hermes. (Aelian, V. H. x. 18.) Ovid (Met. iv. 275) calls him an Idaean shepherd; but it does not follow from this, that Ovid connected him with either tile Phrygian or the Cretan Ida, since Ida signifies any woody mountain. (Etym. Magn. s.v. His story runs as follows: The nymph, his mother, exposed him when an infant in a charming valley in a laurel grove, from which he received his name of Daphnis, and for which he is also called the favourite of Apollo. (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. x. 26.) He was brought up by nymphs or shepherds, and he himself became a shepherd, avoiding the bustling crowds of nen, and tending his flocks on mount Aetna winter and summer. A Naiad (her name is different in different writers, Echenais, Xenea, Nomia, or Lyce,--Parthen. Erot. 29; Schol. ad Theocrit. i. 65, vii. 73; Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. viii. 68; Phylarg. ad Virg. Eclog. v. 20) fell in love with him, and made him promise never to form a connexion with any other maiden, adding the threat that he should become blind if he violated his vow. For a time the handsome Daphnis resisted all the numerous temptations to which he was exposed, but at last he forgot himself, having been made intoxicated by a princess. The Naiad accordingly punished him with blindness, or, as others relate, changed him into a stone. Previous to this time he had composed bucolic poetry, and with it delighted Artemis during the chase. According to others, Stesichorus made the fate of Daphnis the theme of his bucolic poetry, which was the earliest of its kind. After having become blind, he invoked his father to help him. The god accordingly raised him up to heaven, and caused a well to gush forth on the spot where this happened. The well bore the name of Daphnis, and at it the Sicilians offered an annual sacrifice. (Serv. ad Virg. Ecl. v. 20.) Phylargyrius, on the same passage, states, that Daphnis tried to console himself in his blindness by songs and playing on the flute, but that he did not live long after; and the Scholiast on Theocritus (viii. 93) relates, that Daphnis, while wandering about in his blindness, fell from a steep rock. Somewhat different accounts are contained in Servius (ad Virg. Eclog. viii. 68) and in various parts of the Idyls of Theocritus.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Son of Hermes and a nymph, Daphnes was the inventor of pastoral poetry,
himself being a sheperd on Sicily.
According to various myths, he was the lover of the nymph Piplea or
the shepherdess Chloe.
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the In2Greece URL below.
Galatea, (Galateia, "the milk-white"). A sea-nymph daughter of Nereus and Doris. According to a Sicilian story, which the poets Philoxenus and Theocritus have made famous, she was pursued by the uncouth monster Polyphemus, being herself in love with the beautiful Acis. The jealous giant crushed Acis with a rock, and the nymph changed her beloved into the Sicilian river which bears his name. The legend of Acis and Galatea has been a favourite theme in English literature. Adaptations of it are to be found in Gay's Acis and Galatea, J. S. Blackie's Galatea, Proctor's Death of Acis, R. Buchanan's Polypheme's Passion, and Austin Dobson's Tale of Polypheme.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
One of the Old Man of the Sea Nereus' fifty daughters, the Nereids (sea-nymphs). She was a cheerful and teasing nymph, and when the cyclop Polyphemus fell in love with her she tormented him with sweet words and mockery. Instead, she fell in love with prince Acis who soon was murdered by the cyclop.
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the In2Greece URL below.
The sister of Alcithoe, and with her changed into a bat.
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