Mount Ida is of great mythical importance. It is in the Ideon Cave which is hidden in the mountain that Rhea gave birth to Zeus. It is also where he is believed to have spent the better part of his childhood. Mount Ida is the present-day Mount Kaz located in Turkey. 6. The Isle o...
Olympus: The Greek mountain – now a brand of cameras. Oracle: Mortal psychic or seer - now known as the popular database software company. There’s a reason companies like to brand their products and services after characters of Greek mythology. The public tends to subconsciously associate the...
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Since Phoebe was the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis, the twins’ were sometimes called Phoebus and Phoebe as alternative names. Phoebe also had some association with the moon, as did Artemis. Her most integral power was that of prophecy, and she was heavily associated with the famousOracle ...
4. Pelion-The Mountain of the Centaurs According to mythology,Pelion used to be the land of the Centaurs, the famous half-human, half-horse creature. It is now a beautiful land of contradictions combining thesea with the mountains, the verdant slopes with the picturesque villages and the runn...
,且结合下文“So it threw itself off the mountain and died.(于是它从山上跳下去死了。)”可知,此处指“它住在山上”,故答案为A。32.【答案】B【解析】A. 二 B. 三 C. 四 根据句意“什么东西早上四条腿,中午两条腿,晚上___腿?”,且结合下文“So it threw itself off the mountain and died.(...
It passed the larger part of its time between Mykenai and Nemea, in the neighbourhood of a mountain which was called Tretos (Perforated) from a peculiarity which it possessed; for it had a cleft at its base which extended clean through it and in which the beast was accustomed to lurk. ...
ATHOS was a mountain-god of Thrake (Thrace), north of Greece.PARENTSPresumably a son GAIA like the other MountainsCLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTESStrabo, Geography 14. 1. 23 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "The temple [of Artemis at Ephesos] . . . was the...
You want to convey the idea that there is something lofty and frosty about the manners of General de Gaulle. What is the attribute you go for? Do you choose Aconcaguan or Annapurnean? No, you choose Olympic or Olympian, after Greece's tallest and most beautiful mountain.Salmon, Tim...
Hercules statue at the Royal Palace Hofburg in Vienna, Austria Renaissance artists frequently depicted scenes and characters from Greek mythology in their paintings, sculptures, and frescoes.Sandro Botticelli‘s famous painting “The Birth of Venus” (c. 1485) portrays the goddess of love emerging fr...