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Aetia (other)
Aetia may refer to: * '' Combretum'', the bushwillows, a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Combretaceae * '' Aetia'', a poem by the Ancient Greek poet and scholar Callimachus * Aetia gens, an ancient Roman clan {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combretum
''Combretum'', the bushwillows or combretums, make up the type genus of the family Combretaceae. The genus comprises about 272 species of trees and shrubs, most of which are native to tropical and southern Africa, about 5 to Madagascar, but there are others that are native to tropical Asia, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, Australia, and tropical America. Though somewhat reminiscent of willows (''Salix'') in their habitus, they are not particularly close relatives of these. Ecology Bushwillow trees often are important plants in their habitat. Savannahs in Africa, in particular those growing on granitic soils, are often dominated by ''Combretum'' and its close relative ''Terminalia''. For example, ''C. apiculatum'' is a notable tree in the Angolan mopane woodlands ecoregion in the Kunene River basin in southern Africa. Other species of this genus are a major component of Southwestern Amazonian moist forests. This genus contains several species that are pollinated by ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aetia (Callimachus)
The ''Aetia'' ( grc, Αἴτια, translit=Aitia, lit=causes) is an ancient Greek poem by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus. As an aetiological poem, it presents a large collection of origin myths in four books of elegiac couplets. Although the poem cannot be precisely dated, scholars estimate it was probably composed between 270 and 240 BC. Emerging from a tradition of writing going back to the poems of Homer, the ''Aetia'' provides the earliest source for almost every myth it relates. The stories of Books 1 and 2 have a dialectic structure, wherein characters engage in a discussion or debate. Books 3 and 4 offer a diverse range of linked dramatic settings. Two poems dedicated to Berenice II of Egypt—''Victory of Berenice'' and ''Lock of Berenice''—bookend the poem's second half. Widely read in antiquity, the poem elicited responses from several Roman poets. A translation of the ''Lock of Berenice'' by Catullus inspired Alexander Pope's ''The Rape of the Lock'' (1712). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
