n 1.(Classical Myth & Legend)Greek mytha handsome youth loved by Aphrodite. Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle 2.a handsome young man ...
[N.B. The sceptre was the ancient Greek equivalent of a crown, the symbol of kingship. In the Iliad Zeus symbolically hands Pelops kingship of the Peloponnesos.]Telestes, Fragment 810 (from Athenaeus, Scholars at Dinner) (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric V) (C5th B.C.) : "The first...
"[Eteokles (Eteocles) speaks :] ‘We shall know soon enough what the symbol [of Dike] on his [Polyneikes' (Polynices')] shield will accomplish, whether the babbling letters shaped in gold on his shield, together with his mind's wanderings, will bring him back [to the throne of The...
I should like to draw attention to the inexhaustible variety of the problems and exercises which it [mathematics] furnishes; these may be graduated to precisely the amount of attainment which may be possessed, while yet retaining an interest and value. It seems to me that no other branch of ...
Notice the Capital and small forms for F (PH) , and that capital I in Greek is like the English H while small i is like n. The small ph or f can also look like below especially when used in science as the symbol phi . Lets write a few words in English using Greek letters to ...
[1] Remember that the Secret Practice describes Yuebei’s symbol as that of a “drought demon’s head” (batou, 魃頭), and Arabic sources call Perseus’ symbol the “demon’s head” (ra’s al-ghūl). This shows that both cultures considered the head some kind of supernatural monster....
It still seems to be a psychological truth that people who think of new things are often persuaded of their truth just because they thought of them. And now, oddly, we are without an explanation for creativity. THE NINE MUSES(daughters of Mnemosyne & Zeus) nameartsymbol Calliopē Epic (...
* Numismatic Note: This coin is considered to be a possible coin that was one of the “30 pieces of silver” that Jesus Christ was sold out for. TheAntiochantetradrachm is one possibility for the identity of the coins making up the thirty pieces. ...
Theologian and Nicetas Stethatos in the eleventh, and Nikolaos Kavasilas in the fourteenth century. The Byzantine mystical writers differ from those of Western Europe chiefly in their attitude to ecclesiastical ceremonies, to which they adhered implicitly, seeing in it a profound symbol of the ...
-includes cornucopia (symbol of plenty)-gaze shows intimacy btwn child + mother-humanization = new interest in late classical Hermes holding the infant Dionysos by Praxiteles (340-330 BCE)-from the Temple of Hera at Olympia -"Praxitelean S-curve" - exaggerated sinuous s- curve characteristics ...