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Encyclopedia Britannica



CALLISTO

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 58 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAL-CAR
CALLISTO , in
Greek
  mythology, an Arcadian nymph, daughter of Lycaon and companion of Artemis. She was transformed into a
bear
  as a
penalty
  for having borne to Zeus a son, Areas, the ancestor of the Arcadians. Hera, Zeus and Artemis are all mentioned as the authors of the transformation. Areas, when
hunting
 , encountered the
bear
  Callisto, and would have shot her, had not Zeus with
swift
  wind carried up both to the skies, where he placed them as a. constellation. In another version, she was
slain by Artemis. Callisto was originally only an epithet of the Arcadian Artemis herself.
See Apollodorus iii. 8;
Ovid
 , Metam. ii. 381-530; R. Franz, De Callistus fabula (189o), which deals exhaustively with the various forms of the legend.


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