The Greeks had a third word for love: agape (ἀγάπη). This can be best translated as a charitable love. It’s what we might feel towards someone who’s behaved rather badly or come to grief through flaws of character...
Love & joy : law, language, and religion in ancient Israel Love & joy : law, language, and religion in ancient Israel Yochanan Muffs Jewish Theological Seminary of America , Distributed by Harvard University Press, c1992 : [pbk.] Y Muffs - Jewish Theological Seminary of America , ...
their own temperament; breathing poetry of the text in the mellow air, let poets of sentiment or feeling melancholy; then Qingli poetic, sincere love, dream The gorgeous cast of human soul, the soul of the strokes used to write their own lines, to the life of paper left on a clean ...
Statue of Ramesses II at the Temple of Luxor Temple of Hathor (Cleopatra’s “temple of love”) The Temple of Hathor, located on the west bank of the Nile River near the city of Dendera, is one of the best preserved Egyptian monuments Built between 125 B.C. and 60 A.D., the Dende...
1.Of, relating to, or belonging to times long past, especially before the fall of the Western Roman Empire (ad476):ancient cultures.See Synonyms atold. 2.Of great age; very old:"The males live up to six months—positively ancient, for a bee"(Elizabeth Royte). ...
It’s mid-February now, and with that comes the so-called celebration of love we know today as St. Valentine’s Day. Cards, flowers, and chocolates abound at this time of year. Hopefully there is some poetry too! But the commercialism of it all seems a little strange, doesn’t it?
Now the holiday honors Valentine 50 of Lupercus. Valentine’s Day has become a major 51 of love and romance in the modern world. The ancient god Cupid and his 52 into a lover’s heart may still be used to 53 falling in love or being in love. But we also use cards and gifts such...
根据Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty.可知答案。故答案是Aphrodite。 根据The Greeks held many festivals to show respect to them.可知答案。故答案是They held many festivals./ By holding many festivals. 根据People prayed(祈祷) and gave gifts to the gods and goddesses to make their...
Eros- The god of love. He was thought of as a handsome and intense young man, attended by Pothos ("longing") or Himeros ("desire"). Later mythology made him the constant attendant of his mother, Aphrodite, goddess of love. The powers of Eros areoften mentioned during a free psychic ...
The Anu District was the older section of the two, and dedicated to the sky-god An (Anu). The Eanna District–the walled off one–was dedicated to Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and eventually, war. Part of the facade of the temple of Inanna at Uruk. (Source) No...