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Ambrosia (Hyades)

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In Greek mythology, one of the three or five Hyades

Lycurgus about to hit Ambrosia who transform into a vine, Greek mosaic fromDelos, late second century BC.^[1]

InGreek mythology,Ambrosia was one of theHyades.

Mythology

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Dionysus was entrusted as a child to Ambrosia and her sisters, the Hyades. Later,Lycurgus assaulted the child Dionysus who was crossing his lands onMount Nysa, escorted by the hyades. Lycurgus pursued and killed Ambrosia during this assault while her other sisters escaped and took refuge withThetis.^[2] As she died, she turned into a vine, trapping the murderer in her branches until the god returned.

According to another version, Ambrosia was one of the fifteen daughters ofAtlas andPleione and one of five sisters (the Hyades, in Latin Sicule).^[3] At the death of their only brother,Hyas, killed by a lion (or a boar), they cried so much that, according to myths, they either turned into stars or were transformed by the moved gods, thus becoming the constellationHyades while their brother Hyas was transformed into the constellationAquarius.

Notes

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^For more, seeNonnus,Dionysiaca 21.1-68. For a detailed study of this mosaic, see Claude Vatin and Philippe Bruneau, «Lycurgue et Ambroisie sur une nouvelle mosaïque de Délos», inBulletin de correspondance hellénique, 1966, vol. 90, 90-2, p. 391-427See online.
^Hyginus,De astronomia 2.21.1 withAsclepiades as the authority
^Hyginus,De astronomia2.21.4 withMusaeus as the authority

References

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Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.