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According to Varro and Ovid, the festival commemorated the flight of the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, in 510 BC.
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According to Augustine, Varro drew on the pontiff Mucius Scaevola's tripartite theology:
According to Varro they used to distinguish five kinds of territory: ager Romanus, ager Gabinus, ager peregrinus, ager hosticus, ager incertus: these distinctions clearly point to the times of the prehistory of Latium and testify the archaic quality of the art of augury.
* According to the Roman scholar and writer Marcus Terentius Varro, the foundation of a library at Pergamum around this time by Eumenes II of Pergamum, combined with an embargo on papyrus by Ptolemy V, leads to the invention of parchment.
According to Marcus Terrentius Varro, the gens Salentini descended from Idomeneus, who had sailed from Crete to Illyria, and then together with Illyrians and Locrians from Illyria to Salento, see Grecìa Salentina.
According to the Roman grammarian Censorinus the first period, the ádelon ( obscure ), was calculated by Varro as follows:
According to the testimony of Vitruvius and Varro, Andronicus of Cyrrhus designed the structure.
According to Varro, it was so-called because it was held on the fifth ( quinqu -) day after the Ides, in the same way as the Tusculans called a festival on the sixth day after the Ides Sexatrus or one on the seventh Septimatrus.
According to Varro, the two goddesses jointly received the porca praecidanea, a pig sacrificed in advance of the harvest.
According to some authors ( Varro, Diodorus Siculus ) the speakers of Sicel entered Sicily from the Italian mainland, and the language is quite likely of Indo-European origin.
According to Varro, an antiquarian of the 1st century BC, the Games were introduced after a series of portents led to a consultation of the Sibylline Books by the quindecimviri.
According and Ovid
According to Strabo, he was born in Naryx in Locris, where Ovid calls him Narycius Heroes.
According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.
According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.
According to Ovid, the fisherman-turned-sea-god Glaucus fell in love with the beautiful Scylla, but she was repulsed by his fishy tail and fled onto the land where he could not follow.
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.
According to Ovid, the goddess was so envious of the magnificent tapestry and the mortal weaver's success, and perhaps offended by the girl's choice of subjects ( the loves and transgressions of the gods ), that she destroyed the tapestry and loom and slashed the girl's face.
According to Ovid, Vesta is indeed the Earth itself, the sacred sphere ( orbs ) that makes life possible as we know it: " Vesta is the Earth itself, both have the perennial fire, the Earth and the sacred Fire show their see.
According to Ovid, one day, Zeus noticed the maiden and lusted after her.
The Siren, by John William Waterhouse ( circa 1900 ), depicted as a fish-chimera. According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses V, 551 ), the Sirens were the companions of young Persephone and were given wings by Demeter to search for Persephone when she was abducted.
According to Ovid:
Sometimes he hung garlands on her doorpost wet with his tears, and lay with his soft flank on the hard threshold, complaining at the pitiless bolts barring the way .” According to Ovid, the statue was preserved at Salamis in Cyprus, in the temple of Venus Prospiciens.
According to the Roman poet Ovid, who wrote about transformations in his Metamorphoses, Iphis ( or Iphys ) was the daughter of Telethusa and Ligdus in Crete.
According to Ovid, Astraea abandoned the earth during the Iron Age.
According to Ovid, it was Themis rather than Zeus who told Deucalion to throw the bones of " his Mother " over his shoulder to create a new race of humankind after the Deluge.
According to Ovid, in the formative years of growth after the deluge, mother earth accidentally produced a gigantic Python that terrorized the humans.
According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses ), a Roman poet writing in 8 AD, who was noted for accuracy regarding the Greek myths, Medusa alone had serpents in her hair, and he explained that this was due to Athena ( Roman Minerva ) cursing her.
According to the Roman poets Virgil ( Aeneid, book v. 864 ) and Ovid, the Sirenum scopuli were three small rocky islands where the Sirens of Greek mythology lived and lured sailors to their deaths.
According to Ovid, Cinyras ' daughter Myrrha, impelled by an unnatural lust for her own father ( in retribution for her mother Cenchreis ' hybris ), slept with him, became pregnant, and asked the gods to change her into something other than human ; she became a tree from whose bark myrrh drips.
According to Ovid, Myrrha was the daughter of King Cinyras and Queen Cenchreis of Cyprus.
According to scholia on the Odyssey, Arcesius ' parents were Zeus and Euryodeia ; Ovid also writes of Arcesius as a son of Zeus.
According to Ovid, born a remarkably handsome boy, he was transformed into an androgynous being by union with the water nymph Salmacis.
According to Ovid, Mestra married the thief Autolycus, though other sources named his wife differently.
According to Quintilian ( 10. 1. 58 ) he was the chief of the elegiac poets ; his elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans ( see Neoterics ), and imitated by Ovid, Catullus, and especially Sextus Propertius.
According to Ovid he was the author of erotic poems.
According to Ovid, Morpheus concentrated on the human elements of dreams, his brothers Phobetor and Phantasos being responsible for animals and inanimate objects, respectively.
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According to Nora Chadwick, in Celtic Ireland " Beltine ( or Beltaine ) was celebrated on 1 May, a spring-time festival of optimism.
According to a very different account by an ancient grammarian, Herodotus refused to begin reading his work at the festival of Olympia until some clouds offered him a bit of shade, by which time however the assembly had dispersed-thus the proverbial expression " Herodotus and his shade " to describe any man who misses his opportunity through delay.
According to ancient Greek sources, a hecatomb ( a sacrifice of 100 cows ) was carried out for the festival and the people received the meat in the Kerameikos, possibly in the Dipylon courtyard ; excavators have found heaps of bones in front of the city wall.
" According to Hone, more than four people had died at this festival and many more were injured.
According to Hiram Araújo da Costa, over the centuries, the festival of dances of slaves in Bahia were called samba.
According to the prophet Zechariah, in the messianic era Sukkot will become a universal festival and all nations will make pilgrimages annually to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast there.
According to Duris of Samos, Lysander was the first Greek to whom the cities erected altars and sacrificed to him as to a god and the Samians voted that their festival of Hera should be called Lysandreia.
According to Samuel Noah Kramer in The Sacred Marriage Rite, in late Sumerian history kings established their legitimacy by taking part in the ceremony in the temple for one night, on the tenth day of the New Year festival Akitu.
According to 10KLF. com the festival could not grow to financial success.
According to Bill Mankin, “ It seems fitting … that one of the most enduring labels for the entire generation of that era was derived from a rock festival: the ‘ Woodstock Generation ’.”
According to various critics, Dylan's performance was one of the greater moments of the festival, and represented the beginning of another one of the new phases in his lengthy career.
" According to Fuse senior vice president of programming and development Sal LoCurto, " A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus was developed to compliment the wide variety of music programming on Fuse – including live concerts, festival coverage and in-depth interview series with the biggest names in music.
According to Dave Haslam, the festival demonstrated that " the city had become synonymous with ... larger-than-life characters playing cutting edge music ...
According to Herodotus, the Spartans, who were at that time celebrating the festival of Hyacinthus, delayed making a decision until they were persuaded by a guest, Chileos of Tegea, who pointed out the danger to all of Greece if the Athenians surrendered.
According to Lynch, Francis Bouygues ( then head of CIBY ) was not well liked in France and this only added to the film's demise at the festival.
According to Saint Gregory of Nyssa, the feast of Nativity in the Eastern Church is not a festival of creation, but of re-creation and renewal.
According to Freyle, the king or chief priest of the Muisca was said to be ritually covered with gold dust at a religious festival held in Lake Guatavita, near present-day Bogotá Colombia.
According to this legend, with heavy anti-semitic overtones, the festival began in the Middle Ages.
According to Herodotus, the Spartans, who were at that time celebrating the festival of Hyacinthus, delayed making a decision until they were persuaded by a guest, Chileos of Tegea, who pointed out the danger to all of Greece if the Athenians surrendered.
According to the contemporary sources of Christian missionaries of the early Middle Ages, particularly of Saxo Grammaticus who gave a detailed account of Svetovid's great temple on the island of Rügen, the pagan Slavs held a great festival each summer in honor of Svetovid.
( According to one of the history sketches in the book ' Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ' by John Berendt, Savannah, Georgia had been approached about serving as the festival location, but city leaders declined.
According to one historian, " Comus was aggressively English in its celebration of what New Orleans had always considered a French festival.
According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the festival comes on the 15th of March annually and lasts three days.
According to the modern festival, which is combined with the Mousehole village illuminations, the entire catch was baked into a huge stargazy pie, encompassing seven types of fish and saving the village from starvation.
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