Phonetic Spelling:(poor'-gos) Definition:Tower Meaning:a tower, fortified structure. Word Origin:Derived from a primary root word meaning "to tower" or "to rise." Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries:-H4026 (מִגְדָּל, migdal):Often translated as "tower," used in conte...
Actually I wanted to be a damsel in a tower guarded by seven dragons, and then a prince on a white horse would chop off the dragons' heads and liberate me. I used to wet the bed when I was small, but I grew out of it by the time I was seven. ...
Mars initiates. It is ardent, proud, fierce and above all pro-active. Living it large. In Tarot, Mars may be expressed through drawing The Tower card, The Emperor or the Death card (modern ruler Pluto) and the potential for destruction could not be plainer, as we are witnessing right no...
The thinkers of Greece, or we may say , the Greek philosophers were not ivory-tower intellectuals of the kind that our modern world has inherited from the scholastic tradition of the Middle Ages. Actually, it’s hard to tell apart philosophy and science in early Greek philosophy as they are...
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But those who had good courage, three times on either side of death, to keep their hearts untarnished of all wrong, these travel along the road of Zeus to Kronos' (Cronus') tower. There round the Islands of the Blest, the winds of Okeanos (Oceanus) play, and golden blossoms burn, ...
: "[The Greeks celebrate the fall of Troy, captured by night using guile :] ‘Hail, sovereign (basileus) Zeus, and you kindly Night (nyx philia), you who have given us great glory, you who cast your meshed snare upon the towered walls of Troy.’"...
Tower of Babel inModern Greek|Ancient Greek Articles about Greek Greek Links Greek learning materials Books about the Greek alphabet [top] A Brief History of Written Greek Greek was first written in Mycenae with a script known asLinear B, which was used between about 1500 and 1200 BC. This ...
He was so besotted with chicken that we had broken every rule in the dog-rearing manual by using the word ‘chicken’ on occasions where danger loomed and every other command was flatly ignored. I turned and looked at Wallace on the back seat. He was panting. He’d definitely heard the...
I’ve been trying to get this photo for almost 25 years. I was shooting out the window as we took off, and was amazed to see landmarks I recognized. Eventually I got to where I wanted. But don’t look too close – I was zoomed out and the airplane window was filthy. ...