Abraxas is a mystical word composed of Greek letters. It was believed to have magical powers and was often inscribed on amulets and charms. Around the second century AD, early Gnostics (ancient Greek religious thinkers) used the word to describe their god. Abraxas is described as a talisman w...
He tells them everything that they will have to do and go around, but leaves out that he will be the only survivor. “...so let me tell her forecast: then we die/ with our eyes open, if we are going to die,/ or know what death we baffle if we can.”(721-723) Odysseus is...
She is seldom visited, whether by mortals or by immortals; but I, alas, was brought by ill fortune to her hearth, a sole survivor when Zeus with his flashing thunderbolt shattered and shivered my rapid ship in the midst of the wine-dark ocean. There and then my good comreades perished...
Pipina Drakopoulou is another breast cancer survivor and volunteer of the Hellenic Cancer Society who assisting in the library set up at the same clinic for patients and their families. "There is communication. You know it is the most significant for the patient hearing a word, hearing 'I ha...
(Bk. VIII, 487). The only survivor of those who had plotted against Odysseus was Phemios, the singer of the suitors. He survives because Odysseus allows him to live because of his gift of voice from the gods. As Telemachus says about the suitors, “This is all they think about, the ...
It’s a poetic name that means myrrh, the aromatic shrub known for being one of the three magi’s gifts to the baby Jesus. Nerina Origin: Greek Meaning: Delicate Variations/Synonyms: Nerrina, Nerine, Nereida, or Nerinna (Italian) Description: Nerina is a Greek word that means “sea ...