• Source: Limnaeus

Limnaeus, Limnaios, Limnaea, Limnaee, Limnetes, or Limnagenes, meaning in Greek "inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh".




Greek Mythology


It is an ancient Greek surname of several divinities who were believed either to have sprung from a lake or had their temples near a lake. Instances are, Dionysus at Athens, and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epidaurus, on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia, near Calamae, Patrae; it is also used as a surname of nymphs that dwell in lakes or marshes.
Limnaee was the Naiad-nymph of a lake in India and daughter of the river Ganges. She had a son named Athis.




Cities/Towns


Limnaea (Λιμναία), an ancient town of Thessaly.
Limnaea (Acarnania), a city in ancient Acarnania.




Names


Limnaeus or Limnaios is also used as a name:

Limnaeus, a general of Alexander the Great, in the battle of Malli (see Habreas)
Limnaios son of Harpalos, a land-owner; he was given estates in Chalcidice by king Lysimachus
Limnaios and Lysanias helped Rhodes after 226 BC earthquake
Limnaeus, an ambassador of Philip V of Macedon (see Cycliadas)
Saint Limnaeus, disciple of Saint Thalassius, an hermit in Syria (5th century). Theodoret records that Limnaeus had been living in this way for thirty-eight years.
Johannes Limnaeus (Johann Wirn) (1592–1663) German professor who wrote a work entitled "Jus publicum Imperii Romano-Germanici"
Georg Limnaeus (1554–1611) German professor of mathematics in Jena
Toula Limnaios, a Greek choreographer




Zoology


Limnaeus is also a surname of species in zoology (i.e. Austrofundulus limnaeus, a fish, Gammarus limnaeus, an amphipod ).




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Limnaeus
• Georg Limnaeus
• Stagnicola fuscus
• Thalassius and Limneus
• University of Jena
• Thioalkalicoccus
• Mallian campaign
• Friedrich August von Gebler
• Mysterium Cosmographicum
• Austrofundulus