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35-497: According to one version recorded by Hyginus , there were seven Heliades: Merope , Helie, Aegle , Lampetia , Phoebe , Aetherie and Dioxippe . Aeschylus's fragmentary Heliades names Phaethousa and Lampetia, who are otherwise called daughters of Neaera . A scholiast on the Odyssey gives their names as Phaethusa, Lampetia and Aegle. Their brother, Phaëthon , died after attempting to drive his father's chariot (the sun) across

70-560: A Benedictine monastery and a school, to help preach the Gospel to the local people . According to his Vita by Bishop Arbeo , Corbinian was on his way to Rome when his packhorse was attacked and killed by a wild bear. By divine power, Corbinian ordered the bear to carry his luggage over the Alps . When he finally arrived in Rome he let the bear free. The saddled bear is still the symbol of

105-731: A continuous settlement until the 8th century AD. Around 700 AD the Frankish Agilolfing dukes built a simple palace on the highest hill in Freising as part of its Duchy of Bavaria . In 724 AD, the Frankish Saint Corbinian was sent to the Duchy of Bavaria by the Catholic Church to spread Christianity . On the highest hill in Freising, where there was already a simple sanctuary, Corbinian erected

140-464: A mine of information today, when so many more nuanced versions of the myths have been lost. In fact the text of the Fabulae was all but lost: a single surviving manuscript from the abbey of Freising , in a Beneventan script datable c.  900 , formed the material for the first printed edition, negligently and uncritically transcribed by Jacob Micyllus , 1535, who may have supplied it with

175-486: A state-certified designer for floral art. The Freising-Weihenstephan campus is an extensive complex of higher education institutions and research institutes in the western urban area of Freising, in the Weihenstephan and Vötting districts. It has been developed into the so-called "Green Center of Bavaria" for decades and continues to be modernized and designed as a "science and research campus". It includes not only

210-652: A trusted associate of Osama Bin Laden , was apprehended in Freising. In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI visited Freising during a papal visit. He was formerly archbishop of Munich/Freising from 1977 to 1982. There are several elementary schools in the city of Freising. The St. Korbinian elementary school is located in the city center, the Neustift elementary school in Neustift, the St. Lantbert elementary school in Lerchenfeld and

245-489: Is a scientific institution of the city of Freising. It holds documents from the 14th century to the present day. It has existed as an institution since 1909. It is a public institution, open to all citizens and offers a reference library with about 4500 volumes in a reading room. Since 2003, the Freising Municipal Archives have been temporarily located in the "Haus der Vereine" (House of Associations),

280-783: Is a university town in Bavaria , Germany , and the capital of the Freising Landkreis (district) , with a population of about 50,000. Freising is the oldest town between Regensburg and Bolzano , and is located on the Isar river in Upper Bavaria , north of Munich and near the Munich International Airport . The city is built on and around two prominent hills: the Cathedral Hill with

315-684: Is dedicated to the continuing education of pastoral counselors. The Kardinal-Döpfner-Haus educational center is also located in the former residence on the Domberg. Further offers are provided by the Katholisches Kreisbildungswerk and the Pallotti-Haus, a Christian educational house and therapy center. The oldest library in Freising is the Freising Cathedral Library, located on the Domberg. This

350-469: The scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica , which were dated to about the time of Tiberius by Apollonius' editor R. Merkel, in the preface to his edition of Apollonius (Leipzig, 1854). De astronomia was first published, with accompanying figures, by Erhard Ratdolt in Venice, 1482, under the title Clarissimi uiri Hyginii Poeticon astronomicon opus utilissimum . This "Poetic astronomy by

385-572: The Astronomia are in exactly the same order as in Ptolemy 's Almagest , reinforcing the idea of a 2nd-century compilation. The lunar crater Hyginus and the minor planet 12155 Hyginus are named after him. The English author Sir Thomas Browne opens his discourse The Garden of Cyrus (1658) with a Creation myth sourced from the Fabulae of Hyginus. Freising Freising ( German pronunciation: [ˈfʁaɪzɪŋ] )

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420-623: The Bavarian Eastern Railway Company built the first railway line from Munich to Freising, Landshut and Regensburg for passenger and rail traffic. Near the end of the Second World War , Allied aircraft bombed Freising on April 18, 1945. By April 30, units of the US Army arrived in Freising. In 1998, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim , also known as Abu Hajir al-Iraqi, a key figure in the founding of al-Qaeda and

455-743: The Free State of Bavaria . Other non-university institutions include the German Research Institute for Food Chemistry, the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging, DEULA Bavaria and the IZB Freising-Weihenstephan start-up center for green biotechnology. In addition to the natural sciences and technology, there are facilities in the area of religious education. The Institut für Theologische und Pastorale Fortbildung Freising

490-673: The " Center of Life Sciences ", the Weihenstephan Science Center for Nutrition, Land Use and Environment of the Technical University of Munich , but also the most important part of the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences . The Freising Clinic is an academic teaching hospital of the Technical University of Munich . It is located north of the old town. Several research centers have been established in

525-571: The 10th century, in order to collect additional revenue, monks were sent from Freising down the Isar River to build a toll bridge on the Salt Road between Salzburg and Augsburg. This village would be later known as München (or Munich , which means 'of the monks'). By 1158, Duke Henry the Lion destroyed the bridge and customs building and built new ones closer to his home further downriver, (near

560-606: The Dom-Gymnasium, is Freising's largest grammar school. The Freising Vocational School and the Vocational School for Child Care are located in the same building. The latter is a full-time school that trains pediatric nurses in two years. The vocational school for nursing is affiliated with the Freising Clinic. The Weihenstephan State Vocational School for Floral Art offers advanced training to become

595-581: The Heliades were turned to poplar trees because they yoked the chariot for their brother without their father Helios' permission. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Smith, William , ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . {{ cite encyclopedia }} : Missing or empty |title= ( help ) Gaius Julius Hyginus Gaius Julius Hyginus ( / h ɪ ˈ dʒ aɪ n ə s / ; c. 64 BC – AD 17)

630-652: The Paul-Gerhard-Schule. At Guten Änger in Lerchenfeld, the new Montessori school building was opened in 2015 and a second Realschule in 2018. The Wippenhauser Straße is home to the Wirtschaftsschule and the Fachoberschule / Berufsoberschule . The oldest of Freising's three high schools is the Dom-Gymnasium on the Domberg. The Camerloher-Gymnasium is one of the few artistic grammar schools. The Josef-Hofmiller-Gymnasium , which emerged from

665-620: The Paul-Gerhardt elementary school in the north of the city. Another elementary school is the Vötting Elementary School, to which the schoolhouse in Pulling also belongs. Secondary schools include the three secondary schools Neustift, Paul-Gerhard and Lerchenfeld. The first two are located at the sites of the elementary schools of the same names. The Karl-Meichelbeck-Realschule is located in the immediate vicinity of

700-490: The caprices of Fortune who has allowed many of the plays of an Aeschylus , the larger portion of Livy 's histories, and other priceless treasures to perish, while this school-boy's exercise has survived to become the pabulum of scholarly effort." Hyginus' compilation represents in primitive form what every educated Roman in the age of the Antonines was expected to know of Greek myth, at the simplest level. The Fabulae are

735-691: The center of modern downtown Munich), so that he could collect the revenue instead. The construction of the Freising Cathedral in its current romanesque style started in 1159 and was completed in 1205. The Romanesque wooden ceiling was replaced by a gothic vault in 1481–1483. Freising went through difficult times during the Thirty Years' War . In 1632, the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus came through Freising on his way to Munich. He demanded 30,000 guilders as

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770-459: The centre of an important diocese . Some important historical documents were created between 900 and 1200 in its monastery: The above and other scripts from that time can be found in the "Bayerische Staatsbibliothek" ( Bavarian State Library ) in Munich. Even though archaeological finds show that the area was settled in the late Stone Age and Bronze Age , no proof has been found yet to suggest

805-614: The city, displayed in the coat of arms, as well as statues and paintings. After Corbinian's death, Saint Boniface established Freising as a Catholic diocese . Between 764–783, Bishop Arbeo founded a library and a scriptorium (writing room) at the abbey. The settlement started to become a religious centre. The earliest recorded tornado in Europe struck Freising in 788. The mortal remains of Pope Alexander I are said to have been transferred to Freising in 834. In 996, Freising received city rights from Emperor Otto III . As early as

840-521: The elementary mistakes (especially in the rendering of the Greek originals) were held to prove that they cannot have been the work of "so distinguished" a scholar as C. Julius Hyginus. It was further suggested that these treatises are an abridgment made in the latter half of the 2nd century of the Genealogiae of Hyginus by an unknown adapter, who added a complete treatise on mythology. The star lists in

875-455: The former Bishop's Residence and Freising Cathedral , and Weihenstephan Hill with the former Weihenstephan Abbey , containing the oldest working brewery in the world. It was also the location of the first recorded tornado in Europe. The city is 448 meters above sea level. Freising is one of the oldest settlements in Bavaria, becoming a major religious centre in the early Middle Ages. It is

910-435: The historian Clodius Licinus . Hyginus was a voluminous author: his works included topographical and biographical treatises, commentaries on Helvius Cinna and the poems of Virgil , and disquisitions on agriculture and bee-keeping . All these are lost. Under the name of Hyginus there are extant what are probably two sets of school notes abbreviating his treatises on mythology ; one is a collection of Fabulae ("stories"),

945-425: The influence of Napoleonic France in which church controlled lands were secularized . In Freising, the more than thousand-year-old bishopric was abolished. The Roman Catholic Church lost most of its properties and authority over the city. Though the seat of the diocese was moved to Munich in 1821, including the elevation to an archdiocese, Freising has remained the seat of diocesan administration until today. In 1858

980-501: The most renowned Hyginus, a most useful work", chiefly tells us the myths connected with the constellations, in versions that are chiefly based on Catasterismi , a work that was traditionally attributed to Eratosthenes . Like the Fabulae, the Astronomia is a collection of abridgements. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition , the style and level of Latin competence and

1015-521: The other a "Poetical Astronomy". The Fabulae consists of some three hundred very brief and plainly, even crudely, told myths (such as Agnodice ) and celestial genealogies, made by an author who was characterized by the modern editor, H. J. Rose , as adulescentem imperitum, semidoctum, stultum —"an ignorant youth, semi-learned, stupid"—but valuable for the use made of works of Greek writers of tragedy that are now lost. Arthur L. Keith, reviewing H. J. Rose's edition (1934) of Hygini Fabulae , wondered "at

1050-478: The sky. He was unable to control the horses and fell to his death (according to most accounts, Zeus struck his chariot with a thunderbolt to save the Earth from being set afire). The Heliades grieved for four months and the gods turned them into poplar trees and their tears into amber . According to some sources, their tears (amber) fell into the river Eridanus , in which Phaethon had fallen. According to Hyginus,

1085-653: The sum to protect the city from destruction. Nevertheless, his army sacked the city. Hunger and plague raged when the Swedes invaded the city again in 1646. In 1674, the Church placed a statue of the Virgin Mary in the city square as a sign that war and plague had been overcome. A wave of witch hunts and trials broke out from 1715–1717 in Freising, and again in 1721–1723. Most of the accused were child beggars. Several children were executed. In 1802/1803 Bavaria fell under

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1120-504: The title we know it by. In the course of printing, following the usual practice, by which the manuscripts printed in the 15th and 16th centuries have rarely survived their treatment at the printshop, the manuscript was pulled apart: only two small fragments of it have turned up, significantly as stiffening in book bindings. Another fragmentary text, dating from the 5th century is in the Vatican Library. Among Hyginus' sources are

1155-652: The vicinity of the two universities, i.e. mostly located on campus. The TUM Weihenstephan Research Center for Brewing and Food Quality, the TUM Central Institute for Nutrition and Food Research and the TUM Hans Eisenmann Center for Agricultural Sciences belong to the Technical University of Munich . The Bavarian State Institute of Agriculture and the Bavarian State Institute of Forestry and Forestry are authorities of

1190-529: Was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor , and a freedman of Caesar Augustus . He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' De Grammaticis , 20. It is not clear whether Hyginus was a native of the Iberian Peninsula or of Alexandria . Suetonius remarks that Hyginus fell into great poverty in his old age and was supported by

1225-701: Was founded by Bishop Arbeo and is the central library of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and one of the largest church libraries in Germany . The city library was founded in 1959. The central library of the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences is located in the Hofgarten in Weihenstephan . Also in Weihenstephan is a branch library of the University Library of the Technical University of Munich . The Stadtarchiv Freising

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