"On the learned leaves of Apollon's mournful iris was embroidered many a plant-grown word [i.e. the flower of Hyakinthos (Hyacinthus), which was marked with the Greek word for the cry of grief] ; and when Zephyros (Zephyrus) breathed through the flowery garden, Apollon turned a quick...
There are several possible etymologies for the name Porphyrion:--it could mean "Surging" from the Greek word porphyreôs, a term applied to both the surge of battle and the sea; or "Gleaming Darkly" from the word porphyrô; or else "Purple-Coot" from porphyriôn. Aristophanes in ...
This is the word [held] in secret among the Jews unto this day. Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. MATTHEW 28:16 After this when his twelve disciples came to Galilee he appeared to them in the mountain where they had ...
This book adds to the recent surge in studies on fifth and fourth century Greek rhetoric, and includes essays by "a number of contemporary scholars" (2). This modest phrase is a dramatic understatement, since the contributors were largely responsible for that very surge in publications. The ...
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aReed credits Thomas Bouchard's work for today's surge in twin studies. "He was the trailblazer," she says. "We forget that 50 years ago things like alcoholism and heart disease were thought to be caused entirely by lifestyle. Schizophrenia was thought to be due to poor mothering. Twin...
These translations are not word-for-word. Be this as it may, there is often more to desire in a translation than mere rigid attention to exactness if one wishes to create a modern classic and not merely a dusty reference book for some scholars. The Greeks themselves continually made new ...
"The name Apollo is Greek; they say that he is Sol (the Sun), and Diana [Artemis] they identify with Luna (the Moon); the word Sol being from solus, either because the sun ‘alone’ of all the heavenly bodies is of that magnitude, or because when the sun rises all the stars are...
Kheiron's name was derived from the Greek word for hand (kheir) and meant something like "skilled with the hands." In myth it was also closely associated with the word kheirourgos "surgeon."FAMILY OF CHIRONPARENTS[1.1] KRONOS & PHILYRA (Titanomachia Frag 6, Pindar Pythian Ode 3, ...