In a development that offered more immediate causality for the myth, Aristaeus discerned that the Ceans' troubles arose from murderers hiding in their midst, the killers of Icarius in fact. When the miscreants were found out and executed, and a shrine erected to Zeus Ikmaios, the great god was propitiated and decreed that henceforth, the Etesian wind should blow and cool all the Aegean for forty days from the baleful rising of Sirius, but the Ceans continued to propitiate the Dog-Star, just before its rising, just to be sure.Hyginus, Poetic Astronomy Aristaeus appears on Cean coins.Charikleia Papageorgiadou-Banis, The Coinage of Kea (Paris) 1997.
in a development that offered more immediate causality for the myth aristaeus discerned that the ceans' troubles arose from murderers hiding in their midst the killers of icarius in fact when the miscreants were found out and executed and a shrine erected to zeus ikmaios the great god was propitiated and decreed that henceforth the etesian wind should blow and cool all the aegean for forty days from the baleful rising of sirius but the ceans continued to propitiate the dog-star just before its rising just to be surehyginus poetic astronomy aristaeus appears on cean coinscharikleia papageorgiadou-banis the coinage of kea (paris) 1997