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Athos and fictional
* Athos ( fictional character ), one of the title characters in the novel The Three Musketeers ( 1844 ) by Alexandre Dumas ( père ), indirectly named from the village
* Athos ( Stargate ), a fictional planet in the TV series Stargate Atlantis
Olivier d ' Athos de la Fère, Comte de la Fère is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père.
The fictional Athos is named after the historical musketeer Armand de Sillègue d ' Athos d ' Autevielle ( 1615-1644 ), though they don't actually have much in common apart from the name.

Athos and planet
In all the books except Ethan of Athos and Falling Free, the protagonists are connected to the planet Barrayar, home of the Vorkosigan clan.
The name " Athos " for the main character's planet may be a reference to Mount Athos in Greece.
It tells the story of Dr. Ethan Urquhart, Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Centre on the planet of Athos, and his quest to Kline Station to find out what happened to a shipment of vital ovarian tissue cultures.
Athos, a three mooned planet undergoing extensive terraforming, is what author Lois McMaster Bujold refers to as a " monastery " planet, similar to real-life all-male cloisters.
There is a small but growing call on Athos to obtain a jump ship so the planet can trade with Kline Station, However, this is almost unanimously quashed due to Athos's preferred isolation.
Athos ' few natural resources and extreme isolation are probably the main reason why the founding fathers settled on the planet in the first place, a decision most citizens are apparently thankful for.
This means that Athos being dependent on female ovarian cultures is not an unavoidable situation now but could have been 200 years ago when the planet was settled.
If Athos did find out about that innovation it would completely emancipate the planet from its last remaining dependency on the rest of humanity.
After finding and arriving in the city of Atlantis, Beckett examines a severed Wraith arm that Major Sheppard brought back from the planet Athos.
When she was later killed, he used his abilities to amass enough money to have House Bharaputra on Jackson's Whole splice her DNA into the shipments of ovaries destined for the planet Athos.
In the show, she is the daughter of Tagan, and was a leader of a village on the planet Athos.
Teyla Emmagan is the leader of the Athosians, a human race of farmers, hunters, and traders from the planet Athos in the Pegasus Galaxy.
In the third season episode, Atlantis is reclaimed by a group of Ancients and the Athosians are asked to leave Lantea, settling on a planet they name New Athos, which is unknown to the Wraith.
The Athosians are a group of hunters, farmers, and traders from the planet Athos.

Athos and novel
She followed that up with the second novel with the same setting, The Warrior's Apprentice then worked on Ethan of Athos.
Shards of Honor and Barrayar concern Miles ' parents, while " Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma " concerns a distant ancestor of Cordelia Naismith, Ethan of Athos involves a few minor characters from other Vorkosigan novels, and Falling Free does not involve Miles or any of his family, though in a later novel, Miles encounters the descendants of the characters from Falling Free.
* Athos Roussos, a character in the novel Fugitive Pieces ( 1996 ) by Anne Michaels
Ethan of Athos is an English language science fiction novel that is part of the Vorkosigan Saga by American author Lois McMaster Bujold.
They assume-correctly-that Athos means Raoul de Bragelonne, officially his ward and adopted son ( in fact Raoul is Athos's natural illegitimate son, product of a one-night stand, as we have learned earlier in the novel: this is the first time that the other Musketeers are actually told that Athos is indeed Raoul's real father, although D ' Artagnan may have suspected it earlier.
She was a tempting subject for colorful biography in the Romantic era: Alexandre Dumas, père entangles her in the plots of The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, in which Raoul, the hero of the third novel of Dumas ' trilogy, is the secret son of de Chevreuse and the musketeer Athos.
His story is told in the novel Ethan of Athos.
Late in the novel, she is revealed to be the wife of Athos, one of the musketeers in the title of the novel.

Athos and Ethan
The point of view characters include women ( Cordelia in Shards of Honor, Barrayar ; Ekaterin in Komarr and A Civil Campaign ), a gay man ( Ethan of Athos ), and a pair of brothers, one of whom is disabled and the other a clone ( Miles and Mark Vorkosigan ).
The closed ecology of a space station is satirized in Ethan of Athos, with the emphasis on preventing microbial contamination, the air supply dependent on algae and newts, the processing of dead or contraband animals ( and one dead human ) into vat meat supplies, and the storage of garbage in the vacuum outside the station.
On the human level, experiments attempt the ideal soldier (“ Labyrinth ”), the ideal worker ( Falling Free ), the ideal spy ( Ethan of Athos ), and even the ideal underwater ballet ( Diplomatic Immunity ).
# Ethan of Athos ( December 1986 )
# Miles, Mystery and Mayhem ( December 2001 ), omnibus: Cetaganda, Ethan of Athos, and " Labyrinth "
Ethan buys a new set of ovarian cultures anyway as a cover, uses their packaging to relabel the cultures with Janine's genes, and returns with them and Terrence to Athos.
It is unclear what the exact population of Athos is during the events of Ethan of Athos.
es: Ethan de Athos
fr: Ethan d ' Athos
pl: Ethan z planety Athos
Ethan of Athos features an all-male world in which men use artificial uteri to reproduce.
The novels written earliest, The Warrior's Apprentice and Ethan of Athos, feature only Cetagandans in the characteristic face paint of the ghem.
It takes place somewhat before the events of Ethan of Athos, and thus before Admiral Naismith's flight to escape their wrath.

Athos and by
Nevertheless Galen's pre-eminence amongst the great thinkers of the millennium is exemplified by a 16th-century mural in the refectory of the Great Lavra of Mt Athos.
By the 14th century however, on Mount Athos the terms Hesychasm and Hesychast refer to the practice and to the practitioner of a method of mental ascesis that involves the use of the Jesus Prayer assisted by certain psychophysical techniques.
However, Hesychasts who are living as hermits might have a very rare attendance at the Divine Liturgy ( see the life of Saint Seraphim of Sarov ) and might not recite the Divine Office except by means of the Jesus Prayer ( attested practice on Mt Athos ).
On the Hesychast side, the controversy was taken up by St Gregory Palamas, afterwards Archbishop of Thessalonica, who was asked by his fellow monks on Mt Athos to defend hesychasm from the attacks of Barlaam.
* Works by Elder Paisios ( 1924 – 1994 ) of Mount Athos.
In later tradition the number of icons of Mary attributed to Luke would greatly multiply ; the Salus Populi Romani, the Theotokos of Vladimir, the Theotokos Iverskaya of Mount Athos, the Theotokos of Tikhvin, the Theotokos of Smolensk and the Black Madonna of Częstochowa are examples, and another is in the cathedral on St Thomas Mount, which is believed to be one of the seven painted by St. Luke the Evangelist and brought to India by St. Thomas.
Athos were gradually replaced by small, locally produced icons on glass, which were much less expensive and thus accessible to the Transylvanian peasants ..."
The Julian calendar is still used by the Berber people of North Africa, and on Mount Athos.
* New Testament Byzantine Greek Original Side by side with the English ( King James ) and Russian ( Synodal ) translation Commentary by the Greek Fathers – Icons from Mount Athos
* The Monastery of Great Lavra at Mount Athos is founded by Athanasius the Athonite.
The Iviron monastery on Mount Athos, a major center of Christian culture favored by the Georgian crown
Icon by Theophanes the Cretan ( 16th century, Stavronikita monastery, Mount Athos ).
Mystical Supper by Theophanes the Cretan ( 16th century, Stavronikita monastery, Mount Athos ).
Icon of the Crucifixion, 16th century, by Theophanes the Cretan ( Stavronikita Monastery, Mount Athos )
* New Athos, a monastery in Abkhazia, founded by monks from Mount Athos
* Athos ( album ), a 1994 album by German multi-instrumentalist and composer Stephan Micus
On the Hesychast side, the controversy was taken up by Palamas who was asked by his fellow monks on Mt Athos to defend hesychasm from the attacks of Barlaam.

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