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Absyrtus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Absyrtus, or Apsyrtus (Ancient Greek: Άψυρτος), was in Greek mythology the son of Aeëtes and a brother of Medea and Chalciope. His mother is variously given: Hyginus calls her Ipsia, Apollodorus call...
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Argonauta absyrtus is an extinct species of octopus assigned to the genus Argonauta. A. absyrtus was described in 2006 based on fossil material from the Serravallian (Middle Miocene) Pakhna Formation of southern Cyprus. It represents the first argonaut fossil reported from the eastern Mediterranean.
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Absyrtus, a brother of Medea, whom she cut in pieces as she fled with Jason, pursued by her father, throwing his bones behind her to detain her father in his pursuit of her by stopping to pick them up.
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(Schol. ad Apollon. l. c.) When Medeia fled with Jason, she took her brother Absyrtus with her, and when she was nearly overtaken by her father, she murdered her brother, i. 9. § 24; Ov. Trist. iii. 9; compare Apollon. iv. 338, &c. 460, &c.) According to another tradition Absyrtus was not taken by Medeia,
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Ibis:465-540 The city in Thrace. It was publicly purified once a year and one of the burghers set apart for that purpose was stoned to death as a scapegoat. He was excommunicated six days before in order to ‘bear the sins of the people’. (See Frazer: The Golden Bough LVIII: The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece.)
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Absyrtus, who was a baby, was taken aboard the Argo by Medea, on the advice of Jason, and then killed and dismembered.
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ABSIMARUS. [TiBEiuus absimarus.] ABSYRTUS or APSYRTUS fA^pros), a son of Aeetes? king of Colchis, and brother of Medeia.
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Argonauta absyrtus: Physical Description, Distribution Maps, Taxonomy, Similar Species, Notes Specific name: absyrtus D. M. Martill and M. J. Barker 2006...
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Absyrtus - Hyginus Fabulae XXIII 1. When Aeetes learned that Medea had fled with Jason, he got a ship ready and sent his son Absyrtus with armed guards to capture her.
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Another version of the myth states that instead of Medea killing her brother, she told him she had been kidnapped and to rescue her from a certain spot. When he had been lured there, Jason ambushed him and killed him. Review our Terms of Service. © Copyright 2003-2008. Information About,
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