When the hero Achilles was an infant, his sea-nymph mother dipped him into the river Styx to make him immortal. But since she held him by one heel, this spot did not touch the water and so remained mortal and vulnerable, and it was here that Achilles was eventually mortally wounded. T...
and the planet Mercury was named for him by the Romans because it is the fastest-moving of the planets. His name was also given to the liquid silver metal that skitters around on a surface so quickly and unpredictably. And the word mercurial seems to have come from the metal, rather than...
- List of words from Greek and Latin mythology such as herculean, titanic, zephyr, asinine, equestrian, opus, odyssey, siren, satyr, zealot, ambrosia, ethos, hubris, gorgon, halcyon, platonic, lethargic etc. - Do you know that hector, stentorian, nestor all come from Homer's Iliad? Explor...
8.Words from proper names modern English has a large number of words which come from proper nouns. They include 1. Names of people Words of this group are from names of scientists, investors, etc. these terms are used as measurements. Some words are from characters in mythology. Some are ...
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Another term closely associated with Norse mythology that we have adopted into English issaga, which originally meant “a medieval Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.” Today,sagais used more generally to refer to “any very long story ...
the entire tone and approach of the work shifts as Adam steps back from his own story to adopt a distanced perspective:Point of Entry: the Third Person, or the Absent Conscience.That the narrator and author of the novel (and he does call it a novel at this point) is also the protagoni...
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Unit1 Art Words and Expressions高中英语人教版2019选择性必修第三册 B6U1ArtWordsandexpressions Loveofbeautyistaste.Thecreationofbeautyisart.—RalphWaldoEmerson 对爱的喜爱是一种品味，而对美的创造则是一种艺术。Christ n.基督 Christiancn.基督教徒 Christianityn.基督教 一名虔诚的基督教徒 acommittedChristian...
The Yami have a unique mythology that functions both as the structure and law of their culture as well as serving as a history of the ancestors for the family recites it; in other words, what is called the 'Song of the Ancestors' is different or each family that recites it, and as ...