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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 58 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CALLISTO , in See also:

Greek See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, an Arcadian nymph, daughter of See also:

LYCAON

Lycaon and See also:

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion of See also:

ARTEMIS

Artemis. She was transformed into a See also:

bear as a See also:

PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty for having See also:

BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne to See also:

ZEUS

Zeus a son, Areas, the ancestor of the Arcadians. See also:

HERA

Hera, Zeus and Artemis are all mentioned as the authors of the transformation. Areas, when See also:

HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting, encountered the bear Callisto, and would have shot her, had not Zeus with See also:

swift See also:

wind carried up both to the skies, where he placed them as a. See also:

CONSTELLATION (from the Lat. constellatus, studded with stars; co'n, with, and Stella, a star)

constellation. In another version, she was slain by Artemis. Callisto was originally only an epithet of the Arcadian Artemis herself. See See also:

APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus iii. 8; See also:

OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, Metam. ii. 381-530; R. See also:

FRANZ, ROBERT (1815-1892)

Franz, De Callistus fabula (189o), which deals exhaustively with the various forms of the See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

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