Alcmene was born to Electryon ( or Alcaeus, Perseus and Andromeda's son ), the son of Perseus and Andromeda, and king of Tiryns and Mycenae or Medea in Argolis.

Rome declared war on Perseus in 171 BC and after the Macedonian army was crushed at the Battle of Pydna ( 168 BC ), Macedonia was split up into 4 Roman puppet-cantons ( 167 BC ).

1908 ), 1: 1 – 6, at Perseus Digital Library.

Heracles ' human stepfather Amphitryon was also a grandson of Perseus, and since Amphitryon's father ( Alcaeus ) was older than Eurystheus ' father ( Sthenelus ), he might have received the kingdom, but Sthenelus had banished Amphitryon for accidentally killing ( a familiar mytheme ) the eldest son in the family ( Electryon ).

Under Attalus I ( 241-197 BC ), they allied with Rome against Philip V of Macedon, during the first and second Macedonian Wars, and again under Eumenes II ( 197-158 BC ), against Perseus of Macedon, during the Third Macedonian War.

These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone ( by Demeter ), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses ( by Mnemosyne ); by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.

According to Ovid, Proetus ended up changed into stone by Perseus, the grandson of Acrisius ( who had eventually got expelled by Proetus ), upon being made by him to see the head of Medusa.

Under Philip V of Macedon ( 221 – 179 BC ) and his son Perseus of Macedon ( 179 – 168 BC ), the kingdom clashed with the rising power of the Roman Republic.

* Pera, Marcello and Joseph Ratzinger ( Pope Benedict XVI ), Senza radici: Europa, Relativismo, Cristianesimo, Islam Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Perseus Books Group, 2006 ISBN 0-465-00634-5, Milano, Mondadori, 2004 ISBN 88-04-54474-0

By stealing their eye while they were passing amongst themselves, the hero Perseus forced them to tell the whereabouts of the three objects needed to kill Medusa ( in other versions the whereabouts of Medusa herself ), by ransoming their shared eye for the information.

He appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses and was slain by Phineus during a fight between Phineus and Perseus ( see Boast of Cassiopeia ), just before Phineus was turned to stone.

2nd century BC ), daughter of Seleucus IV Philopator and Laodice IV, wife of Perseus of Macedon and later a possible wife of Demetrius I Soter

Pelops and Hippodameia also had several daughters, some of whom married into the House of Perseus, such as Astydameia ( who married Alcaeus ), Nicippe ( who married Sthenelus ), and Eurydice ( who married Electryon ).

By chance, an aging Acrisius was there and Perseus accidentally struck him on the head with his javelin ( or discus ), fulfilling the prophecy.

Perseus professed that he did slay the Gorgon named Medusa ( the only Gorgon who was mortal ), and as proof, he revealed her severed head.

* Phineus ( son of Belus ), turned to stone by Perseus

* A Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities ( 1890 ), Perseus Project

The stronger contingent was on the Macedonian right, where Perseus commanded the heavy cavalry ( including his elite Sacred Squadron ), and the Thracian Odrysian cavalry were deployed.

* Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities ( 1898 ), Perseus Project

A papyrus bearing a long fragment of a satyr play by Sophocles, given the title ' Tracking Satyrs ' ( Ichneutae ), was found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, 1907.

Tragedy ( late 6th century BC ), comedy ( 486 BC ), and the satyr play were the three dramatic genres to emerge there.

In two late Roman sources, Hyginus and Ovid, Pan is substituted for the satyr Marsyas in the theme of a musical competition ( agon ), and the punishment by flaying is omitted.

Achaeus of Eretria (; born 484 BC in Euboea ) was a Greek playwright author of tragedies and satyr plays, variously said to have written 24, 30, or 44 plays, of which 19 titles are known: Adrastus, Aethon, Alcmeon, Alphesiboea, Athla, Azanes, Cycnus, Hephaestus, Iris, Linus, Eumenides, Moirai ( Fates ), Momus, Œdipus, Omphale, Philoctetes, Phrixus, Pirithous, and Theseus.

In Amoenitates academicae ( 1763 ), Linnaeus presented the Homo anthropomorpha ( Anthropomorphic man ) race of mythologic, humanoid creatures, such as the troglodyte, the satyr, the hydra, and the phoenix, incorrectly identified as simian creatures.

Tragedy ( late 6th century BC ), comedy ( 486 BC ), and the satyr play were the three dramatic genres to emerge there.

The other playwrights of the time were Choerilus, author of probably one hundred and sixty tragedies ( with thirteen wins ), and Pratinas of Phlius author of fifty works of which 32 satyr plays, the But when we have received just the titles.

By Aeschylus are known titles of 79 works ( out of about ninety works ), between tragedy and satyr plays, 7 of these have survived, including the only complete trilogy has come down from antiquity, the ' Oresteia, and some papyrus fragments:

* Proteus ( play ), a satyr play by Aeschylus, part of the Oresteia

During her first Neapolitan period she painted Nascita di San Giovanni Battista ( Birth of Saint John the Baptist ) located in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, and Corisca e il satiro ( Corisca and the satyr ), in a private collection.

Among Euripides ’ entries, Haigh underlines Theristae ( 431 BC ), Sisyphus ( 415 BC ) and Alcestis which Euripides was allowed to present as a replacement of the traditional satyr play.

* Fantastic Beasts — guardian ape, basilisk, giant vampire bat, centaur, chimera ( mythology ), cockatrice, giant crab, deadly ooze, various demons and devils, dragons, elementals, giant frog, gargoyle, golems, gorgon, griffin, harpy, hippocampus, hippogriff, homunculus, hydra, giant insects, jackalope, kraken, giant lizard, lycanthropes, manticore, minotaur, pegasus, Phoenix, rakshasa, giant rat, roc, salamander, satyr, sea serpent, simurgh, siren, fantastic snakes, sphinx, tree man, undead ( ghost, ghoul, mummy, animated skeleton, vampire, and zombie ), unicorn, giant wolf, and giant worm.

Their work is characterised by a preference for satyr figures with thyrsos, depictions of heads ( normally below the handles of hydriai ), decorative borders of garments, and the frequent use of additional white, red and yellow.

From 1997 till 2007, Walker served as Artistic Director of Theatre Kingston, a company for which he has directed many productions including his own Finnegans Wake: a dream play ( based on the novel by James Joyce ), which played in both Kingston and Toronto in 2001, and Aeschylus ’ s The Oresteia, which was performed with Proteus, a satyr play Walker wrote himself to replace the one that had originally followed the trilogy but had been lost since the 5th century BCE.

The dvati ( an obscure race, composed entirely of sets of twins, that first appeared in Dragon magazine # 271 ), also have bard as their favored class, and the satyr also shares this class as a favorite.

As the patron of Delphi ( Pythian Apollo ), Apollo was an oracular god — the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

His fellow students — there were 38 in all — included young Samuel I. Hayakawa ( later to become a Republican member of the U. S. Senate ), Ralph Moriarty deBit ( later to become the spiritual teacher Vitvan ) and Wendell Johnson ( founder of the Monster Study ).

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

Andy Warhol had two older brothers — Pavol ( Paul ), the oldest, was born in Slovakia ; Ján was born in Pittsburgh.

* Barnard, Henry ( 1852 ), " Tribute to Gallaudet — A Discourse in Commemoration of the Life, Character and Services, of the Rev.

" Arianism " is also often used to refer to other nontrinitarian theological systems of the 4th century, which regarded Jesus Christ — the Son of God, the Logos — as either a created being ( as in Arianism proper and Anomoeanism ), or as neither uncreated nor created in the sense other beings are created ( as in Semi-Arianism ).

He also boasted of having subjugated the " four quarters " — the lands surrounding Akkad to the north ( Assyria ), the south ( Sumer ), the east ( Elam ) and the west ( Martu ).

Revolts broke out during the 9-year reign of his son, Rimush ( 2278 – 2270 BC ), who fought hard to retain the empire — and in the fifteen year reign of Rimush's elder brother, Manishtushu ( 2269 – 2255 BC ).

Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 – 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.

However, his aptitude for sculpture led him to work for Giulio Cesare Conventi ( 1577 — 1640 ), an artist of modest talents.

In reply to this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to Güyük Khan ; with Longjumeau went his brother William ( also a Dominican ) and several others — John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert " Le Sommelier ," Gerbert of Sens, Robert ( a clerk ), a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.

On arrival at the supreme Mongol court — either that on the Imyl river ( near Lake Alakol and the present Russo-Chinese frontier in the Altay ), or more probably at or near Karakorum itself, south-west of Lake Baikal — Andrew found Güyük Khan dead, poisoned, as the envoy supposed, by Batu Khan's agents.

Besides them, many smaller systems exist ( tactical ABMs ), that generally cannot intercept intercontinental strategic missiles, even if within range — an incoming ICBM simply moves too fast for these systems.

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