Pytho (mythology)
Pytho may refer to: * Delphi or Pytho, a sacred precinct that served as the seat of the oracle Pythia * Pytho, listed by Servius as one of the Hyades in Greek mythology * ''Pytho'' (beetle), a genus of dead-log beetles See also * Python (mythology) In Greek mythology, Python (; '' gen''. Πύθωνος) was the serpent, sometimes represented as a medieval-style dragon, living at the center of the Earth, believed by the ancient Greeks to be at Delphi. Mythology Python, sometimes written P ...

Delphi
Delphi (; ), in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), was an ancient sacred precinct and the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient Classical antiquity, classical world. The Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks considered the centre of the world to be in Delphi, marked by the stone monument known as the Omphalos of Delphi (navel). According to the Suda, Delphi took its name from the Delphyne, the she-serpent (''Drakaina (mythology), drakaina'') who lived there and was killed by the god Apollo (in other accounts the serpent was the male serpent (''drakon'') Python (mythology), Python). The sacred precinct occupies a delineated region on the south-western slope of Mount Parnassus. It is now an extensive archaeological site, and since 1938 a part of Mount Parnassus, Parnassos National Park. The precinct is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in having had a great influence in the ancient world, as evidenced ...
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Servius The Grammarian
Servius, distinguished as Servius the Grammarian ( or ), was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian. He earned a contemporary reputation as the most learned man of his generation in Italy; he authored a set of commentaries on the works of Virgil. These works, ("Exposition on Three Works of Virgil"), ("Commentaries on Virgil"), ("Commentaries on the Works of Vergil"), or ("Commentaries on the Poems of Virgil"), constituted the first incunable to be printed at Florence, by Bernardo Cennini, in 1471. In the ''Saturnalia'' of Macrobius, Servius appears as one of the interlocutors; allusions in that work and a letter from Symmachus to Servius indicate that he was not a convert to Christianity. Name The name Servius also appears as Seruius owing to the unity of the Latin letters V and U from antiquity until as late as the 18th century. Many medieval manuscripts of Servius's commentaries give him the praenomen Marius or Maurus and the cognomen Honoratus. ...
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Hyades (mythology)
In Greek mythology, the Hyades (; , popularly "rain-makers" or "the rainy ones"; from , but probably from ) are a sisterhood of nymphs that bring rain. Family The Hyades were daughters of Atlas (by either Pleione or Aethra, one of the Oceanids) and sisters of Hyas in most tellings, although one version gives their parents as Hyas and Boeotia.Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 192Hyginus, ''De astronomia'' 2.21 The Hyades are sisters to the Pleiades and the Hesperides. Names Their number varies from three in the earliest sources to fifteen in the late ones. The names are also variable, according to the mythographer, and include: Additionally, Thyone and Prodice were supposed to be daughters of Hyas by Aethra, and have been added to the group of stars. Mythology The main myth concerning them is envisioned to account for their collective name and to provide an etiology for their weepy raininess: Hyas was killed in a hunting accident and the Hyades wept from their grief. They were ch ...
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Pytho (beetle)
''Pytho'' is a genus of dead log beetles in the family Pythidae The family Pythidae is a small group of tenebrionoid beetles with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name dead log bark beetles. There are seven genera, which are largely native to the mid-high latitude regions of t .... There are about nine described species in ''Pytho''. Species * '' Pytho abieticola'' Sahlberg, 1875 * '' Pytho americanus'' Kirby, 1837 * '' Pytho depressus'' Linnaeus, 1767 * '' Pytho kolwensis'' Sahlberg, 1833 * '' Pytho niger'' Kirby, 1837 * '' Pytho nivalis'' Lewis, 1888 * '' Pytho planus'' Olivier, 1795 * '' Pytho seidlitzi'' Blair, 1925 * '' Pytho strictus'' LeConte, 1866 References Further reading * * * * * * * Tenebrionoidea genera {{tenebrionoidea-stub ...
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