May 17, 2025
Red Clearwing or Red Glassy Acraea (Acraea lia), family Nymphalidae, Madagascar
photograph by Jean Christophe
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Red Clearwing or Red Glassy Acraea (Acraea lia), family Nymphalidae, Madagascar
photograph by Jean Christophe
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Twelve Artemis Epithets
Why twelve? For the Olympians!!
Artemis Acraea - an epithet given to gods who had temples upon hills. She shares this title with Zeus, Athena, and others. It is noted by both Apollodorus and Pausanius. Artemis Brauronia - Artemis of Brauron. Brauron was an ancient city in Attica, said to be where Iphigenia was sacrificed. It had a famous cult of Artemis, with a ritual called arkteia where young girls, just into puberty, pretended to be she-bears - arktoi. (from The Sacred and Feminine in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell and Margaret Williamson)
Artemis Calliste - an epithet recorded by Pausanias, under which she was worshipped at Athens and Tegea. Calliste is also the name of a daughter of Triton and Libya (an Egyptian woman, not the country), who appeared to the Argonauts after they sailed of Colchis. She is not Callisto! Different person. Artemis Daphnaea - a companion to her twin Apollon's epithet Daphnaeus, whom he obtains from Daphne, the nymph-turned-laurel tree. For Artemis, it is potentially that her statue was made of laurel wood that she has this epithet. It is recorded by both Pausanias and Justinian. Artemis Eurynome - the "wide ruling". Her wooden image - xoanon - at Phiglea in Arcadia depicted her with a woman's upper body and the tail of a fish, whom Pausanias calls an Oceanid. Artemis Gamelii - A divinity protecting/presiding over marriage. Plutarch says that in marriage, one must have the protection of five deities: Zeus, Hera, Peitho, Aphrodite, and Artemis. Artemis Hecaerge - Hecaerge is one of the Hyperboreans who introduced the worship of Artemis in Delos, according to Herodotus. This epithet honors her. Artemis Imbraia - referencing the River Imbrasus in Samos, where the goddess was believed to have been born. This is also an epithet of Hera! There may potentially have been a syncretized version of the goddesses worshipped there, or just some crossing worship as Ancient Greeks interacted with each other. This name comes from Apollonius as well as Pausanius. Artemis Laphria - an epithet Artemis was called by the Calydonians, as a hero called Laphrius was said to have introduced her worship too Calydon. (according to Lycophron) Artemis Melissa - when Artemis is the goddess of the moon, this epithet describes her as a goddess who alleviates suffering in childbirth. (Porphyry of Tyre) Artemis Oenoatis - Artemis of Oenoe, a city in Argolis. (Euripides) Artemis Parthenia - "the maiden". Also an epithet of Hera! However, Hera Parthenia is said to be derived from the River Parthenius. (Apollonius of Rhodes) May Artemis Oenoatis bless all of you!
small orange acraea (acraea serena) from my walk today
#1489 - Acraea terpsicore - Tawny Coster
Photo by Tim Howell, in Collinsville, Queensland. He tried to ID it from his Australian butterfly books, but if they were published before 2012 he would have been shit out of luck, since they only started showing up around Darwin in the Northern Territory that year. Since then they’ve spread rapidly, and are now well into Queensland.
Tawny Costers are native to India, Sri Lanka and SE Asia, but over the last decade they’ve made some long-distance jumps and established themselves here and elsewhere. It’s not clear why they only did this so recently, since their diet is quite wide and it’s not like needed a particularly foodplant to be available first.
Foodplants include some extremely toxic species, and they sequester the poison as caterpillars, and advertise the fact as adults. Orange and black colouration is quite widespread among poisonous and unpalatable butterflies, so it probably didn’t take long for local predators to catch on.
yellow-banded acraea acraea cabira! i've been trying to find one for a while, only to stumble across dozens on my walk this afternoon
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Natal Acraea (Acraea natalica) (by berniedup)