Lampsakos was located on the Asian side of the Hellespont, now known as the Dardanelles Strait. Priapos's name was associated with satyrs thus indicating his virility. Satyrs were riotous woodland deities who were attendant on Dionysos and represented in artwork as part-human, part-horse, and ...
think I cannot do better to-night than to describe to you, without entering into technical details of the methods employed, some of the aims and objects to which modern astronomy of precision is devoted, and which render essential none but the highest refinements that human ingenuity can devise...