The figures of Hellenistic sculpture (the impetuously striving Nike of Samothrace, the giants of the Pergamum Altar of Zeus frieze perishing in combat, Laocoön straining with his last strength) are permeated with anxiety and tinged with the tragic outlook of the epoch. Characteristic of the ...
s. v. Panathênaia). Pisistratus renewed it with increased splendour, and attached more especial importance therein to the worship of his protecting divinity, Athena.1. The Greater and Lesser Panathenaea.The Greater Panathenaea was a pentetêris celebrated every fourth year, and was merely an ...
PO′LIAS (Polias), i.e. "the goddess protecting the city," a surname of Athena at Athens, where she was especially worshipped as the protecting divinity of the acropolis. (Paus. i. 27. § I; Arnob.adv. Gent.vi. 193.) POLIU′CHOS (Poliouchos), i.e. "protecting the city," occ...
The shaman’s altar and offering plate (bottom left). Maya shaman “worked” the cosmos, which they perceived as multi-layered. The nine levels of the upper world were the realm of deceased ancestors and beneficent deities. As the realm of light and life, shamans journeyed there to petition...
The ship leaves without the three heroes, but the sea divinity Glaucus assures them that this is all part of the divine plan. As Book 2 begins, the Argo reaches the land of King Amycus of the Bebrycians, who challenges any Argonaut champion to a boxing match. Anger by this disrespect,...
and the Wintus have forgotten who or what their chief divinity is; at least I have not been able to find a man among them who could give information on this subject. Olelbis lives in the highest part of the sky; with him are the best of the first people. From his beautiful house, ...
Women called the maenads (‘the mad ones’) were also part of the divinity’s troupe, and were believed to tear you apart if you didn’t welcome Dionysus correctly. It sounds like quite the party – so long as you followed the correct rituals and survived the night. Further characters ...
Adornments might assist. From the time he was 9 days old until he was 16 years of age, Roman boys wore a bulla on a chain around their necks. Nestled inside the bulla were amulets to channel the energy of a divinity and protect against evil forces. ...
O′RTHIA (Orthia, Orthias, or Orthôsia) a surname of the Artemis who is also called Iphigeneia or Lygodesma, and must be regarded as the goddess of the moon. Her worship was probably brought to Sparta from Lemnos. It was at the altar of Artemis Orthia that Spartan boys had to und...
Mar.,354–361) claim-ing that the“Pillars of Herakles”should be identified with two islands completelycovered by dense vegetation and hosting“temples and altars to Hercules”.Accordingto the Roman writer, foreign embarcations were allowed to land there to offer sacrifi-ces to the divinity, ...