In Nonnus Dionysiaca, Aura was Greek goddess of breezes and cool air, daughter of Lelantos and Periboia.

Other obvious examples are Nonnus ' Dionysiaca, Tulsidas ' Sri Ramacharit Manas.

** Dionysiaca by Nonnus

In Nonnus ' Dionysiaca, 2. 356, when Typhon prepares to battle with Zeus:

* Phoenix, ally of Dionysus in the Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis

Continuity of the site made sacred by the presence of Cecrops is inherent in the reference in Nonnus ' Dionysiaca to " Erechtheion lamp as " the lamp of Cecrops ".

The parentage of Pan is unclear ; in some myths he is the son of Zeus, though generally he is the son of Hermes or Dionysus, with whom his mother is said to be a nymph, sometimes Dryope or, in Nonnus, Dionysiaca ( 14. 92 ), Penelope of Mantineia in Arcadia.

Pan could be multiplied into a swarm of Pans, and even be given individual names, as in Nonnus ' Dionysiaca, where the god Pan had twelve sons that helped Dionysus in his war against the Indians.

In Nonnus ' Dionysiaca ( 11. 113 ), at Hera's instigation Atë persuades the boy Ampelus whom Dionysus passionately loves to impress Dionysus by riding on a bull from which Ampelus subsequently falls and breaks his neck.

Nonnus ( Dionysiaca 18. 23 – 264 ) gives the most elaborated description of her.

Nonnus in his Dionysiaca mentions a set of four Horae: Eiar, Theros, Cheimon and Phthinoporon, the Greek words for spring, summer, winter and autumn respectively.

Hesiod, Theogony ; Nonnus, Dionysiaca ).

The Dionysiaca of Nonnus, learned and accurate in spite of its late date, elaborates and gives all nine names of the Kuretes.

Nonnus in his Dionysiaca has Hera say ( 8. 158f ):

According to a passage in Nonnus ' Dionysiaca ( ii. 108 ) she was changed into a pine tree by the gods in order to escape him.

The River Asterion in Argos is mentioned in the Dionysiaca ( 47. 493 ) of Nonnus, who couples the reference with a rite in which young men dedicate locks of their hair.

* A nymph of a spring who incessantly mingles her waters with those of the river god Cydnus, who in one passage of Nonnus ' Dionysiaca is said to be her father, and in another her consort.

Their son is Pothos ( Nonnus, Dionysiaca ).

W. H. D. Rouse in 1940 wrote an ironic end note to Book 40 of his edition of Nonnus ' Dionysiaca about a very syncretistic hymn sung by Dionysus to Tyrian Heracles, that is, to Ba ‘ al Melqart whom Dionysus identifies with Belus on the Euphrates ( who should be Marduk!

Nonnus ' principal work is the Dionysiaca, an epic in 48 books, the longest surviving poem from antiquity at 20, 426 lines, composed in Homeric dialect and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return to the west.

* Online text: Nonnus, Dionysiaca bks 1-14 translated by W. H. D. Rouse

When in Nonnus ' fourth-or fifth-century CE Dionysiaca the vast monster Typhon boasts that he will bathe in " starry Eridanus ", it is hyperbole, for the constellation Eridanus, represented as a river, was one of the 48 constellations listed by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy ; it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.

Nonnus in his Dionysiaca ( 18. 5f ) brings in King Staphylus of Assyria and his son Botrys who entertain Dionysus, characters unknown elsewhere.

The river was regarded as a god by the ancient Greeks, as were most mountains and streams ; the poet Nonnus in the Dionysiaca ( section 26, line 350 ) makes the Hydaspes a titan-descended god, the son of the sea-god Thaumas and the cloud-goddess Elektra.

Ossetic bættən " bind ", bast " bound ") and Iranian * arna-" offspring ", equating it with the δουλόσποροι " slave Sporoi " mentioned by Nonnus and Cosmas, where Sporoi is the people Procopius mentions as the ancestors of the Slavs.

Still another variant of the narrative is found in Callimachus and the 5th century AD Greek writer Nonnus.

Nonnus does not present the conception as virginal ; rather, the editor's notes say that Zeus swallowed Zagreus ' heart, and visited the mortal woman Semele, whom he seduced and made pregnant.

In an etiology told by Nonnus, the vine is personified as a beautiful satyr youth, who was loved by Dionysus, and whose death was foreseen by the god.

Cyrene was a fierce huntress, called by Nonnus a " deer-chasing second Artemis, the girl lionkiller.

Further classical references to the Cercopes can be found in Diodorus Siculus 4. 31. 7 ; Nonnus, in Mythographi Graeci, ed.

Ophion is mentioned again by Nonnus ( 12. 43 ):

The gods ( Zeus, Poseidon or Apollo ) eventually killed them because they began to use magic for malignant purposes ; particularly, they produced a mixture of Stygian water and sulfur, which killed animals and plants ( according to Nonnus, they did so as a revenge for being driven out of Rhodes by the Heliadae ).

Ovid in his Ibis mentions that Makelo, like the other Telchines, was killed with a thunderbolt ; according to Callimachus and Nonnus, however, Makelo was the only one to be spared.

The primary models for Nonnus are Homer and the Cyclic poets ; Homeric language, metrics, episodes, and descriptive canons are central to the Dionysiaca.

Nonnus does not seem to arrange his poem in a linear chronology ; rather, episodes are arranged by a loose chronological order and by topic, much as Ovid's Metamorphoses.

* Bowersock, Glen W., " Dionysus as an Epic Hero ," Studies in the Dionysiaca of Nonnos, ed.

In Nonnos ' Dionysiaca, Faunus / Phaunos accompanied Dionysus when the god campaigned in India.

In Dionysiaca 7. 110 he classifies Zeus's affair with Semele as one in a set of twelve, the other eleven women on whom he begot children being Io, Europa, the nymph Pluto, Danaë, Aigina, Antiope, Leda, Dia, Alcmene, Laodameia, mother of Sarpedon, and Olympias.

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One especially bad detonation shook Lifeboat No. 3 which trembled violently in the davits.

On the parade ground the net may be similar to that shown in Figure 3.

In the extreme and oversimplified example suggested in Figure 3, the organization is more easily understood and more predictable in behavior.

The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..

Of types of message listed in Table 1, commands and statements are the only ones sent through the vertical network shown in Figure 3.

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