Heraia (ancient City)
Heraea or Heraia can refer to: * ''Heraea'', an obsolete name of the genus ''Saturnia'' * Heraea (Arcadia), an ancient Greek city in the Peloponnese * Heraean Games, an ancient Greek athletic festival * Hybla Heraea Hybla Heraea or Hybla Hera (Greek: or ) was an ancient city of Sicily; its site is at the modern ''località'' of Ibla, in the ''comune'' of Ragusa. There were at least three (and possibly as many as five) cities named "Hybla" in ancient account ...

Saturnia (moth)
''Saturnia'' is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Franz Paula von Schrank in 1802. They are large moths, commonly called emperor moths though this is also used for various close relatives in subfamily Saturniinae. Most are Palearctic, but three species (''S. mendocino'', ''S. walterorum'' and ''S. albofasciata'', commonly known as saturnia moths) occur in the chaparral of California. Species The known species of ''Saturnia'' are: * '' Saturnia albofasciata'' (Johnson, 1938) – white-streaked saturnia (mostly in '' Calosaturnia'') * '' Saturnia atlantica'' Lucas, 1848 * '' Saturnia bieti'' Oberthür, 1886 * '' Saturnia cameronensis'' Lemaire, 1979 * '' Saturnia centralis'' Naumann & Loeffler, 2005 * '' Saturnia cephalariae'' (Romanoff, 1885) (sometimes in ''Eudia'') * '' Saturnia cidosa'' Moore, 1865 * '' Saturnia cognata'' Jordan in Seitz, 1911 * '' Saturnia koreanis'' Brechlin, 2009 * '' Saturnia luctifera'' Jordan in Seitz, 1911 * '' Saturnia m ...
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Heraea (Arcadia)
Heraea or Heraia ( grc, Ἡραία) was the most important town of ancient Arcadia on the Lower Alpheius. It was situated near the frontiers of Elis, and on the high road from Arcadia to Olympia. Its territory was called the Heraeatis or Heraiatis (Ἡραιᾶτις). According to Greek mythology it was said to have been founded by Heraeus, a son of Lycaon, and to have been called originally Sologorgus. At an early period the Heraeans concluded a treaty with the Eleians for mutual protection and support for one hundred years; the original of which treaty, engraved on a bronze tablet in the old Peloponnesian dialect, was brought from Olympia, and is now in the British Museum. This treaty is placed about the 50th Olympiad, or 580 BCE, since it belongs to a time when the Eleians exercised an undisputed supremacy over the dependent districts of Pisatis and Triphylia; and the Heraeans consequently were anxious to avail themselves of their support. Heraea was, at that time, the ...
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Heraean Games
The Heraea was an ancient Greek festival in which young girls competed in a footrace. The race was held every four years at Olympia, and probably took place around the same time as the ancient Olympic Games. Overview Not much is known about the Heraea, but most of our knowledge comes from Pausanias' ''Description of Greece''. The date that the festival began is uncertain. Pausanias says that the games are (, "old"). There is evidence for cult activity in Olympia as far back as the tenth century BC, but the earliest cultic activity at the site appears to centre around the cult of Zeus; the cult of Hera was certainly in place by about 600 BC, when the first temple of Hera at Olympia was built. It is uncertain whether the races were an original feature of the festival, or a later addition. One story in Pausanias associates the sixteen women responsible for the Heraea with the conflict between Elis and Pisa after the death of Damophon, tyrant of Pisa around 580 BC. If the ...
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