Arcas

[ ahr-kuhs ]

/ ˈɑr kəs /

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noun Classical Mythology.

a son of Zeus and Callisto, the ancestor of the Arcadians who was set among the stars with his mother as the Little Bear and the Great Bear respectively.

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Words nearby Arcas

arcane, arcanist, arcanum, arcanum arcanorum, Arcaro, Arcas, Arcata, arcature, arc-back, arc-boutant, arc cos

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It was inhabited by people particularly styled Ἁλιεις, or men of the sea; who were brought thither by Druops Arcas.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)|Jacob Bryant
Birth of Arcas, and transformation of Calistho to a bear; and afterwards with Arcas to a constellation.
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II|Ovid
Jupiter vainly sought his missing ladylove, and it was only long afterward that he discovered her and her little bear son Arcas.
Myths of Greece and Rome|H. A. Guerber
Her son Arcas, supposing the bear to be an ordinary beast, was about to shoot it, when Jupiter metamorphosed him into a he-bear.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1|The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

She saw him and recognized him as her son Arcas, grown to manhood.
The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)|Charles Mills Gayley

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