Brace. Because, finally, the big boys are coming.
Yes, the colonization of Sardinia is not only known "children." He also witnessed the arrival of "important people".
do not know if this has been an honor, but there was also this. We must simply accept.
What then behind the "big boys" is hiding interpretatio the Greek god of some other foreigner, do not know.
(If you do not know what the Greek interpretatio, migrate temporarily to our small note at the bottom and then come back!)
The first big as we have already appointed: Aristeo. Already from the name (linked to the aristos = "best", the "noble", etc..) Understand that this is not a secondary character. E 'son of Apollo and Cyrene, but not a "son of" nebulous as they are Norac and Sardo. Far from it!
Aristeo, in fact, appears in various myths, some very famous.
E 'him, for example, that chases Eurydice, wife of Orpheus, and it causes death. So Orpheus must descend into Hades to seek his beloved. Note little story, no?
E 'him the father of Actaeon, turned into a stag and torn to pieces by its own for seeing the goddess Artemis naked. But
Aristeo is above all a great "culture hero" who brings knowledge to mankind. Aristeo is a great hunter, he has to "discover" the honey for our species, humanity is he to explain various aspects of cultivation, as the olive.
And finally he is especially deadly to teach the techniques of farming and the manufacture of cheese.

That alone would be enough to plug it trivially to our island, especially if you're one of those banal contemporary believe that the most banal stereotypes about Sardinia (Sardinian are all pastors "...).
Aristeo But, I recognize mythographers Greeks, did not stop there: it was in Sardinia colonizer and founder of the city.
Alas!, There are the myths of the Phoenicians, not to mention those of Sardi

says a writer, someone believed to be Aristotle, that Sardinia, "in ancient times, was prosperous and dispenser of each product. Our writer (yes, well let's call it "Pseudo-Aristotle" as do the scholars) reports that it was said that the case could only be one: Aristeo had arrived with his wealth of knowledge ("Women! It 's got 'grinder! ") in otherwise civilized lands backward.

Silio Italico causes stresses and the travel destination. But
mythographers and historians do not always agree on versions. If you remember (if I do not remember, click here !) Crete at that time was not so mythical depopulated. Indeed, he was a naval power. It did not leave a Crete that Daedalus was coming, but fled from Minos, he disappointed in several ways. A Minos who had reigned for years after inheriting the throne of Crete by his stepfather.
short, according to various sources, Sallust had been mistaken. But the strange thing is
I serve, the famous commentator of Virgil, refers precisely to a passage in Sallust, Crete and the island is not uninhabited, but CEO.
The Sicilian Diodorus, it corrects the shot. The path Aristeo was more articulate. First stop in a CEO (which leaves some descending), then go in the Libya (we imagine in the region of Cyrene, which he dedicated to mothers?) And finally arrives in Sardinia. This
Agha Khan of high times is the beautiful island ... and colonization. So is being done to improve it: plantations and crops rise thanks to his work, and are flourishing. So much so that his two sons were born here: Carmo and Callicarpa. "Callicarpa" means "beautiful fruit ", and" Carmo "is linked to the word meaning" joy, joy. "
I'm not certain names from agriculture in crisis! However, our
Istance eore (cultural) did not stop there, but moved to "other" islands, finally arriving in Sicily. What are the islands touched on this trip we do not know, but just say that it was the Egadi, it seems a bit 'reductive.
Yes, but when he got Aristeo? In that position he finished in this race between those who wanted to colonize Sardinia?
pluricitata Our source, not the tourist-by-case Pausanias, is a bit 'summary of the opinions and reasoning on it. Even in his Aristeo partly due to the pain of the death of Actaeon and arrives in Sardinia after the Libyans (Sardo). Pausanias
dispute that has come with Daedalus (fleeing from the Cretans, in one of the sources consulted by our visitors writer), in chronological questions: Aristeo lived in Thebes in Boeotia at the time of the sons of Cadmus, Daedalus at the time of Oedipus, after a few generations. So the time has not come back.
(cadmium, immigrant and founder of the famous city, we'll talk again ...) there was or was not
Daedalus, Pausanias is sure: Aristeo introduced agriculture in Sardinia, but not established cities. In fact, both in the number of settlers as "work force" was not in this shipment able to build one.

And here there is no agreement. Solino (III century AD), in fact, as we have said elsewhere, said Aristeo founded Karalis, and unifies them Libi (Sardo) and Iberia (of Norac) that previously refused any authority.
Once again the puzzle of the mythical origins of the inhabitants of Sardinia appears contradictory. When he arrived
Aristeo? Came before or after the other? Who accompanied him? Karalis founded or not?
The answer may have been told in comic form. Also on our service, in fact, tells us that Daedalus stopped in Sardinia, then reached Cumae in Campania, and he founded the famous Temple of Apollo where Enea also made a stop on the road with his Trojans.
Here, on the doors of the temple, he painted the steps of his journey.
But what would Daedalus in Sardinia (and even some of the Trojans detour on the island), we'll talk again.

Some small notes
A site that collects the various versions of the myth of Aristeo in Sardinia can be found here .
interpretatio What is Greek? Our Greek friends were in the habit of believing to have invented their own, and that they were the only ones talking greek. So, in anticipation of centuries Christians who converted pagan gods into saints, even the Greeks "interpretation" of gods and heroes of other people as "bad translation" and "misunderstanding" of gods and heroes of Greece. A sort of cultural colonialism. So
Melqart Phoenician, for some of its characteristics was considered equivalent to Hercules, Amon \\ Ammon was identified with Zeus, and so on.
So it is not unlikely that the name of Aristeo son of Apollo, tied to Boeotia and Arcadia, was superimposed on some hero (or god) African Phoenician, Sardinia or whatever, with whom he shared the link with agriculture and pastoralism.