For the colors "purple" or "red" in Greek the word phoînix, φοῖνιξ, the word for "Phoenician," could be used. The most famous statement about "the Purple" is certainly that of the Empress Theodora, who, rather than flee the Nika Revolt of 532, is supposed to have said...
Legal: This sphere can relate to law in its narrow sense, including lawsuits, literature on the matter, explanatory documents on legal aspects, etc., and also it can facilitate other industries such as finance or business, helping to translate contracts, service agreements, and so on. Financial...
Aphrodite’s name is usually linked to the Ancient Greek word for “sea-foam,”aphros, which fits nicely with the story of her birth. However, modern scholars think that both Aphrodite and her name predate Ancient Greece and that the story actually came because of the goddess’ name. ...
it was vividly chthonic (from the Greek word for earth, chthō n, which according to the mythological view gave birth to these monsters). During the period of the primitive communal system, the mythological religious conceptions of the ancient Greeks were dominated by totemistic, fetishistic. ...
This is considered a "tragic death," although in modern languages the word tragedy is often used more loosely as a synonym for disaster —particularly a seemingly undeserved disaster that strikes unexpectedly powerful people and happy families. ...
The name Erinnys, which is the more ancient one, was derived by the Greeks from the erinô or ereunaô, I hunt up or persecute, or from the Arcadian word erinuô, I am angry; so that the Erinnyes were either the angry goddesses, or the goddesses who hunt up or search after ...
HELPS Word-studies 3358métron– properly, ameasure(the actual measureitself); (figuratively) thebasisfor determining what isenough(ornot enough), what isfair(ornot fair), etc. 3358/métron("standard, measure") is the controlling basis by which something is determined as acceptable or unacceptabl...
The Dutch word for lake is meer, but in German the word Meer means sea. A German Winkel is an angle or corner, but a Dutch winkel is a shop (which, indeed, would often be on a corner). An English angle is a hook, a Dutch angel is the sharp end of a wasp. In English, an ...
But the first in a material sphere, whereas the second in an agency sphere. Guess which one I care the most about in this particular? I don't particularly want to punish anyone for their mistakes, but I think it's much worse to let mistakes go unpunished - in fact that de-responsibi...
(Dragon), whereas others assert that the Hesperides possessed flocks of sheep which excelled in beauty and were therefore called for their beauty, as the poets might do, ‘golden mela’ [the ancient Greek word mela means both apples and sheep], just as Aphrodite is called golden because of...