-
Mnaseas of
Patrae (Ancient Gr****: Μνασέας ὁ Πατρεύς) or of Patara,
whether that in
Lycia or
perhaps the
Patara in
Cappadocia was a Gr****
historian of...
-
Mnaseas is a
genus of
skipper butterflies in the
family Hesperiidae.
Recognised species in the
genus Mnaseas include:
Mnaseas bicolor (Mabille, 1889)...
-
Glaucus when the
latter disclosed his own name and origin.
According to
Mnaseas,
cited by
Athenaeus in his Deipnosophistae,
Glaucus named the
island of...
-
there is no
evidence he knew a
language other than Gr****. His father,
Mnaseas, had a name
ambiguously meaningful both in
Phoenician ("one
causing to...
- eurysternou" (sanctuary of the broad-bosomed), is
mentioned at
Delphi by
Mnaseas. A
temple of Ge was
built to the
south of the
temple of Apollo. "Eutysternos"...
- the
Euxine Sea. The
Argonauts later encountered them there.
According to
Mnaseas, they were not birds, but
women and
daughters of
Stymphalus and Ornis,...
- of "barbarian histories",
including Nicolaus of Damascus, Berossus, and
Mnaseas mention the
flood and the Ark. In the
fourth century,
Epiphanius of Salamis...
- a
relationship of the name of the
goddess Cybele, as "Cybele's Zeus".
Mnaseas of
Patrae identified Zalmoxis with Cronos, as does Hesychius, who has "Σάλμοξις...
- this
tradition recounted by
several writers.
Around 200 BCE, a man
called Mnaseas (an
Alexandrian originally from what is now
southern Turkey), told a story...
-
Aristaeus or the
civilizing behaviors taught by the bee nymph. The
antiquarian Mnaseas'
account of
Melissa gives a good
picture of her
function as in this respect...
