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Crocus (mythology)
In Classical mythology, Crocus ((ギリシア語:Κρόκος)) was a mortal youth who, because he was unhappy with his love affair with the nymph Smilax, was turned by the gods into a plant bearing his name, the crocus (saffron). Smilax is believed to have been given a similar fate and transformed into bindweed.〔Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'', 4. 283〕〔Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'', 12. 86〕〔Servius on Virgil's ''Georgics'', 4. 182〕
In another variation of the myth, Crocus was said to be a companion of Hermes and was accidentally killed by the god in a game of discus. Hermes was so distraught at this that he transformed Crocus' body into a flower.〔Galenus, ''De constitutione artis medicae'', 9. 4. (''Corpus medicorum Graecorum'', 13. p. 269)〕 The myth is similar to that of Apollon and Hyacinthus, and may indeed be a variation thereof.
In his translation of Nonnos' ''Dionysiaca'', W.H.D. Rouse describes the tale of Crocus as being from the late Classical period and little-known.〔In: Nonnos, Dionysiaca. With an English translation by W. H. D. Rouse. Volume I, books I - XV. Cambridge - Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1940, p. 404〕
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