ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1. chaos- a state of extreme confusion and disorder bedlam,pandemonium,topsy-turvydom,topsy-turvyness confusion- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably; "the army retreated in confusion" ...
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun Greek mythology- the mythology of the ancient Greeks Trojan War- (Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been...
father and king of gods and men, and as the supreme god of the Hellenic nation, His statue there was executed by Pheidias, a few years before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war, the majestic and sublime idea for this statue having been suggested to the artist by the words of Homer, ...
For now I wish to summon the Anemos (Wind) in poetic fashion, but not having the ability to utter poetic words I wish to address the Anemos in accordance with the Keian Mousa (Cean Muse)." [N.B. Keos (Ceos) was an island famous for its cult of the Etesian Winds. The poet wishes...
NB:This may not be a word-for-word transcript. Why We Need Ancient Greek Words for Love Love is our highest value, what we all crave and what we believe makes us fundamentally human, but it’s also the source of considerable...
Space forbids us saying more than a few words on the domestic history of the Greek Church. The election of the patriarch belonged by right to the Holy Synod; de facto, as we have seen, it was the Basileus or emperor, who elected him. Limited as was the authority of the Holy Synod, ...
Dionysus was the greek god of wine, ecstacy and love. He was so charismatic that women left their homes to revel in the woods with him. He symbolizes the perpetual youth who never wants to grow up.
In Engels’ words, “the manifold forms of Greek philosophy contain in embryo, in the nascent state, almost all the later modes of outlook on the world” (Dialektika prirody, 1969, p. 29). Ancient Greek philosophy was the initial base for the entire subsequent development of West European...
“Styx and Stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” Well, they will if you swear by the River Styx and then break your oath. The River Styx runs through the Underworld and is in the charge of the Goddess of that name. She’s the daughter of the Ocean and — ...
A great number of words and idioms in the English laguage come from the Greek mythology. 它在英语和文学作品方面的巨大影响力是无法形容的。英语中的很多单词和语言表达方式都 3、是来自希腊神话。 In the beginning, the universe is a cosmos evolving from Chaos. Chaos and Gaea (the earth) generate...