Arcas

[ ahr-kuhs ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. 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.

Example Sentences

It was inhabited by people particularly styled Ἁλιεις, or men of the sea; who were brought thither by Druops Arcas.

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Birth of Arcas, and transformation of Calistho to a bear; and afterwards with Arcas to a constellation.

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Jupiter vainly sought his missing ladylove, and it was only long afterward that he discovered her and her little bear son Arcas.

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Her son Arcas, supposing the bear to be an ordinary beast, was about to shoot it, when Jupiter metamorphosed him into a he-bear.

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She saw him and recognized him as her son Arcas, grown to manhood.

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