Greek mythology Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories conc ...

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Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

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Arcas In Greek mythology, Arcas (; Ancient Greek: Ἀρκάς) was a hunter who became king of Arcadia. He was remembered for having taught people the arts of weaving and baking bread and for spreading agriculture to Arcadia. Family Arcas was the ...

Zeus Zeus (, ) is the chief deity of the List of Greek deities, Greek pantheon. He is a sky father, sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus. Zeus is the child ...

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Araethus of Tegea Ariaethus or Araethus (, ''Ariaithos'' or ''Araithos'') was a writer from the ancient Greek city-state of Tegea, whose work survives in fragments. The most notable known work by this author was ''Arkadika,'' which focused on local myths in Arcadia ...

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Themisto In Greek mythology, Themisto (; Ancient Greek: Θεμιστώ) was a Thessalin princess as the daughter of King Hypseus of LapithsApollodorus, 1.9.2 and the naiad Chlidanope. Her name is derived from the Ancient Greek word: "θεμιστος" ...

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Family

Megisto was of royal blood due to her father being

Ceteus In Greek mythology, Ceteus (Ancient Greek: Κητεύς ''Kêteus'' means "of the ravines" from ''kêtôeis'') may refer to the following two characters: * Ceteus, an Arcadia (region), Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycao ...

, son of King Lycaon of Arcadia.

Mythology

Like Callisto, Megisto suffered the same fate like hers in which she was transformed as well into a bear. Her father, Ceteus, is represented in the sky as the Kneeler as he seems to be kneeling on one knee, lamenting her daughter's fate and holding up outstretched hands to heaven, asking for the gods to restore her to him.

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References

* * Smith, William. (1870). ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology''. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly. {{Metamorphoses in Greek mythology Callisto (mythology) Princesses in Greek mythology Mortal women of Zeus Metamorphoses into animals in Greek mythology Mythological Arcadians