In Greek and Roman mythology, Anethus (Ancient Greek: Ἄνηθος, romanized: Ánēthos, lit. 'dill') is a beautiful youth who undergoes transformation under unclear conditions and becomes a small flowering plant bearing his name, the dill. He and his story is only found in Maurus Servius Honoratus, a Latin grammarian who lived in the fourth and fifth centuries AD.
-thos/-thon suffix. The story of Anethus's minor transformation into the dill plant is only found in Servius, who writes that Anethus, much like the poppy and...
(371–287 BC). In Greek mythology, the dill was originally a young man named Anethus who was transformed into the plant. Apiole and dillapiole Carvone Limonene...
unfortunate youth to his early death. Anethus ("dill") Dill Unknown In a nearly lost myth, the handsome boy Anethus was transformed into the flowering plant...
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