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NISUS , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Megara, See also:brother of See also:Aegeus, king of See also:Athens. When See also:Minos, king of See also:Crete, was on his way t'
attack Athens to avenge the See also:murder of his son Androgeus, for which Aegeus was directly or indirectly responsible, he laid See also:siege to Megara. He finally gained See also:possession of the See also:city through the treachery of the king's daughter Scylla, who, enamoured of Minos, pulled out the See also:golden (or See also:purple) See also:lock from her See also:father's See also:head, on which his See also:life and the safety of the city depended (for similar stories, see Frazer, Golden Bough, iii. 1900, p. 358). Megara was captured, and Nisus, who died fighting (or slew himself), was changed into a See also:sea-See also:eagle. Minos, disgusted at Scylla's treachery, tied her to the See also:rudder of his See also:ship, and after-wards See also:cast her See also:body ashore on the promontory called after her Scyllaeum; or she threw herself into the sea and swam after Minos, constantly pursued by her father, until at last she was changed into a ciris (a See also:bird or a See also:fish). In See also:Virgil, Scylla, the daughter of Nisus, is confused with the sea-See also:monster, the daughter of Phorcys. Nisus was the See also:eponymous See also:hero of the See also:harbour of Nisaea, and See also:local tradition makes no mention of his betrayal by his daughter. According to See also:Roscher (in his Lexikon der Mythologic), who identifies the ciris with the See also:heron, the See also:story of Nisus and Scylla (like these of Aedon, Procne, Philomela and Tereus) was invented to give an aetiological explanation of the characteristics of certain birds. The birds were regarded as originally human beings, whose acts and characters were supposed to See also:account for certain habits of the birds into which they had been changed. E. Siecke, De Niso et Scylla in ayes mutatis (progr. See also:Berlin, 1884), holds that the purple or golden See also:hair of Nisus is the See also:sun, and Scylla the See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
moon, and that the origin of the See also:legend is to be looked for in a very See also:ancient myth of the relations between the two, which he endeavours to explain with the aid of See also:Indian and See also:German See also:parallels.
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