Aristée

See also: Aristée (homonymy)

In the Greek Mythology, Aristée (in Greek old Ἀρισταῖος / Aristaĩos ), wire of Apollo and Cyrène (sometimes regarded as a Titan, wire of Ouranos and Gaïa), was raised by the nymph S which learned how to him to curdle the Lait, to cultivate the olive-trees, and to raise Abeille S. Amoureux with the Dryade Eurydice, it was cause of its death, by continuing it the day of its weddings with Orphée: as she fled in front of him, the unhappy one did not see under its feet a snake hidden in tall grasses. The bite of the snake removed the life to him. To avenge it, the nymphs, his/her partners, made perish all the bees of Aristée. His/her Cyrène mother, of which he beseeched the help in order to repair this loss, carried out it to consult Protée, of which he learned the cause from his misfortune, and accepted order to alleviate the manes of Eurydice by expiatory sacrifices. Flexible in its councils, Aristée, having immediately immolé four young bulls and as many heifers, lives some to leave a cloud bees which enabled him to reconstitute its hives.

He married Autonoé, girl of Cadmos, of which he had Actéon. After the death of this wire torn by its dogs, it was withdrawn with Céos, island of the Aegean Sea, then afflicted by a plague which it put an end to by offering to the gods sacrifices; from there, it passed in Sardinia which it organized the first, then in Sicily where it spread the same benefits, and finally in Thrace where Dionysos initiated it with the orgies. Established on the Mount Hémus which it had chosen for its stay, it disappeared suddenly forever. The gods placed it among stars, and, according to certain authors, it became the sign of the Verseau.

The Greeks honoured it since like a god, especially in Sicily; he was one of the large pastoral divinities, and the shepherds returned a particular worship to him.

Hérodote tells that Aristée appeared with Cyzique, after its death, that it disappeared one second time, and, after three hundred years, still reappeared with Métaponte. There it enjoignit with the inhabitants to set up to him a statue near that of Apollo, injunction to which those conformed after having consulted oracle. Aristée, following Plutarque, left and took again its heart at will, and, when it left its body, the assistants saw it under the figure of a stag.

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(III, 30).
Bacchylide (france 45?).
(V, the Bath of Pallas , 106).
(france 93).
(IV, 81,1).
(II, 4), (161).
(V, 212; XIII, 253).
(I, 363).
(X, 17,3).
( Pythiques , IX, 3).

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