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Mimas may refer to:
- Mimas (Giant), son of Gaia in Greek mythology, one of the Gigantes
- Mimas (Aeneid), a son of Amycus and Theona, who escorted Aeneas to Italy
- Karaburun, a town and district in Turkey, formerly called Mimas in reference to the Giant
- Mimas (moon), in astronomy, a moon of Saturn marked by a giant crater on its surface
- Mimas (genus), a genus of Hawk moths, including the Lime Hawk-moth
- Mimas (data centre), a UK national academic data centre at The University of Manchester
- Mimas (band), a Denmark based Post-Rock band
- Mimas, a centaur mentioned in the archaic Greek epic poem, the Shield of Heracles, at line 182
Pronounced with a final /z/ sound, it may be:
- Mima mounds, the unexplained geological formations found on the Mima Prairie, as well as other locations
Mimas is a moon of Saturn which was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel. It is named after Mimas, a son of Gaia in Greek mythology, and is also designated Saturn I.
With a diameter of it is the smallest astronomical body that is known to be rounded in shape because of self-gravitation.
Mimas is a nationally designated academic data centre based at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Its mission is to support the advancement of knowledge, research, and teaching. It hosts a number of the UK's research information assets – and builds applications to help people access this resource. The organisation has a long-standing relationship with Jisc, and strong connections with research councils, especially the Economic and Social Research Council.
Mimas is a Danish band, based in Aarhus. The band comprises Iceland-born Snævar Njáll Albertsson (vocals, guitar, trumpet), Daniel Malling Beck (guitars, vocals, glockenspiel), Gert Hoberg Jørgensen (bass, vocals), and Lasse Dahl Christensen (drums, vocals). Mimas signed to Big Scary Monsters Recording Company in 2008, and their debut album The Worries was released on October 6, 2008. The quartet has also signed to the French label Distile Records who released the album in Europe and in the U.S. in 2009. Their second album Lifejackets was released in October 2010.
Mimas is a Greek mythological character who appears in Virgil's Aeneid. He was the son of Amycus and Theano. A Trojan, he accompanied Aeneas to Italy, where he was killed by Mezentius.
In Greek mythology, Mimas was one of the Gigantes ( Giants), the offspring of Gaia, born from the blood of the castrated Uranus. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, he was killed, during the Gigantomachy, the cosmic battle of the Giants with the Olympian gods, by Hephaestus with "missiles of red-hot metal" from his forge. In Euripides' Ion (c. 410 BC), the chorus, describing the wonders of the late sixth century Temple of Apollo at Delphi, tell of seeing depicted there the Gigantomachy showing, among other things, Zeus burning Mimas "to ashes" with his thunderbolt. In the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, and the Gigantomachia by Claudian, Mimas was killed by Ares (or in Claudian's case by Ares' Roman counterpart Mars). Mimas is also mentioned in the company of other Giants, by the Latin writers Horace and Seneca.
A fragment of an Attic Black-figure dinos by Lydos (Athens Akropolis 607) dating from the second quarter of the sixth century, which depicted the Gigantomachy, shows Aphrodite with shield and spear battling a Giant also with shield (displaying a large bee) and spear, whose name is inscribed (retrograde) as "Mimos", possibly in error for "Mimas".
He was said to be buried under Prochyte, one of the Phlegraean Islands off the coast of Naples. Claudian mentions Mimas as one of several vanquished Giants whose weapons, as spoils of war, hung on trees in a wood near the summit of Mount Etna.
Mimas is possibly the same as the Giant named Mimon on the Gigantomachy depicted on the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi (c. 525 BC), and a late fifth century BC cup from Vulci (Berlin F2531) shown fighting Ares.
Saturn's moon, Mimas, is named for the Giant.
Mimas is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.