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 CABEIRI - LoveToKnow Article on CABEIRI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The substitution of Hades for Hephaestus is due to the fact that Hades was regarded as the husband of Persephone.
Cabeiro, who is mentioned in the logographers Acusilaus and Pherecydes as the wife of Hephaestus, is identical with Demeter, who indeed is expressly called Kaf3apLa in Thebes.
Roman antiquarians identified the Cabeiri with the three Capitoline deities or with the Penates.
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 Taming the Winds
Padel notes that the scene with Iris is "rowdily male" as the Winds "catcall" to the goddess (494), trying to attract her attention.
Acusilaus’ prose work, the Genealogies, displays an interest in myths pertaining to the Winds: the golden apples of the Hesperidae are guarded by Harpies (frg.
By the time of the Cean poet Simonides, Acusilaus’ myth was firmly entrenched in Athenian lore and now had a new function: it provided the focus for Athenian civic pride.
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 Acusilaus - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Acusilaus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Acusilaus or Akousilaos of Argos, son of Cabas or Scabras, was a Greek logographer and mythographer who flourished around 500 BC but whose work survives only in fragments and summaries of individual points.
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 AUB - Berytus Archeological Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A fresh study of the ostracon, guided by these observations, has yielded an intelligible text.
Here a certain Acusilaus, the son of Maron, has paid eight drachmas in silver "on account of
This text is a transportation receipt of the late third century A.D., issued to Manes,
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 LOGOGRAPHI (X&yos, ypiic/w, writers of prose histories or tales) - Online Information article about LOGOGRAPHI ...
Argos,2 who paraphrased in prose (correcting the tradition where it seemed necessary) the genealogical See also:
1 There is some doubt as to whether this Acusilaus was of Beloponnesian or Boeotian Argos.
For an example of the method of Acusilaus see Bury, op.
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 LOGOGRAPHI - LoveToKnow Article on LOGOGRAPHI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
* There is some doubt as to whether this Acusilaus was of Belo-ponnesian or Boeotian Argos.
Kor an example of the method of Acusilaus see Bury, op.
To properly cite this LOGOGRAPHI article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
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 Asia (mythology)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Herodotus (4.45.1) records the tradition that the continent Asia was named after Asia whom he calls wife of Prometheus rather than mother of Prometheus, perhaps here a simple error rather than genuine variant tradition.
Both Acusilaus and Aeschylus in his Prometheus Bound call Prometheus' wife Hesione.
See Prometheus for variant accounts in which Prometheus' mother was Themis or Hera.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Asia-(mythology).htm   (221 words)

  
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Here is a list showing the decline in longevity from pre-Flood patriarchs through the post-Flood generation, finally reaching the life expectancy of today.
The tradition of longevity in ancient man is recorded by the following historians: Manetho, Berosus, Mochus, Hestiaeus, Hieronymus, Hesiod, Hecataeus, Hellanicus, Acusilaus, Ephorus, Nicolaus, and Josephus.
The most interesting is the simple statement that the night sky was blue and WITHOUT STARS BEFORE THE FLOOD.
www.techrover.net /pub/culture/occult/archive/very_old_files/age3.txt   (1460 words)

  
 The Chronology Of Ancient Kingdoms Amended.
In the beginning of that Monarchy, Acusilaus made Phoroneus as old as Ogyges and his flood, and that flood 1020 years older than the first Olympiad; which is above 680 years older than the truth: and to make out this reckoning his followers have encreased the Reigns of Kings in length and number.
that Cadmus Milesius and Acusilaus were but a little before the expedition of the Persians against the Greeks: and Suidas
calls Acusilaus a most ancient Historian, and saith that he wrote Genealogies out of tables of brass, which his father, as was reported, found in a corner of his house.
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 The Adam's Family
The longevity of the bible’s early patriarchs has always been a cause of wonderment, if not outright skepticism.
However, the tradition of such longevity in ancient man (at least the kings) is recorded by several ancient historians, including: Acusilaus, Berosus, Ephorus, Hecataeus, Hellanicus, Hesiod, Hestiaeus, Hieronymus, Josephus, Manetho, Mochus, and Nicolaus.
Sumerian King Lists” tell the same story, and furthermore, note a profound discontinuity of lifetimes before and after the Great Flood/
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 HOME OFFICE - Online Information article about HOME OFFICE
On the other hand our knowledge of Chian Homeridae comes chiefly from the See also:
Harpocration, where we are told that Acusilaus and See also:
Hellanicus said that they were so called from the poet; whereas Seleucus pronounced this to be an See also:
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 Josephus: The War of the Jews:FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS AGAINST APION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Miletus, and Acusilaus of Argos, and any others that may be mentioned as
succeeding Acusilaus, they lived but a little while before the Persian
Acusilaus about their genealogies; in how many eases Acusilaus corrects
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