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As a quintessentially Greek god, Apollo had no direct Roman equivalent, although later Roman poets often referred to him as Phoebus.
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Similarly, Peter Finch starred in quintessentially Australian roles ( such as Digger or stockman ) through a series of popular films and had a successful and diverse screen career in Britain and the United States.
Though it is generally perceived as a quintessentially British work, the eleventh edition had substantial American influences, not only in the increased amount of American and Canadian content, but also in the efforts made to make it more popular.
The article alleged that the quintessentially English town had been taken over by a sinister Eastern European drug and crimes ring nicknamed the ' Baltic Mafia ' who were terrifying local residents.
Although the two Princesses had borne German titles, they were both quintessentially English.
I have gone for the era that was before the carbide and the Davy or the battery lamps because this era had a more quintessentially Cornish feel.
Like C. P. Snow, he was a quintessentially British establishment figure who had been a civil servant in India, and his books vigorously put forth his perhaps idiosyncratic points of view.
( The upstart southern kingdom had portrayed itself " as a quintessentially Mon kingdom, ordained by prophecy, wherein Mon language and cultural symbols would enjoy pride of place, and the Burman north would become a tributary ".
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The Vale consists of quintessentially unspoilt English countryside with rolling farmland centred around the picturesque Roman town of Newent, and also produces fine English wine.
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He refers to British director Christopher Nolan ’ s The Dark Knight and Inception as British rather than as American films, and yet " when a movie which looks quintessentially ‘ British ’, such as The King's Speech, achieves equivalent success, everyone suddenly starts writing articles about the state of our national cinema as if it somehow exists in isolation.
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Candombe, a style of drumming descended from African slaves in the area, is quintessentially Uruguayan ( although it is played to a lesser extent in Argentina ).
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Eschewing stencils in favor of hand-drawn characters, Kawara skillfully renders the script, initially a sans-serif, elongated version of Gill Sans, later a quintessentially modernist Futura.
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Theocritus's Idylls include strophic songs and musical laments, and, as in Homer, his shepherds often play the syrinx, or Pan flute, considered a quintessentially pastoral instrument.
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A historic, rambling, and quintessentially New England building, the White Turkey Inn was situated on several bucolic acres with towering trees and ponds at the intersection of U. S. Route 7 / Federal Road and what is now referred to as Candlewood Lake Road.
referred to Here Come the Warm Jets as " Arguably one of the greatest solo debuts of the 1970s ... Songs such as “ Baby's On Fire ,” “ Driving Me Backwards ,” and “ Needles In The Camel's Eye ” capture the lush and sleazy underpinning narratives of the British Invasion in arrangements that sound quintessentially timeless ".
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He could never attempt Hendrix's stage show, and this realization refocused him on his own quintessentially American roots-style guitar picking.
Picasso is reported to have taken credit for the modern camouflage experiments which seemed to him a quintessentially Cubist technique.
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" It ends in death, and sets the stage for an album populated by rogues, con men, outcasts, gamblers, gunfighters and desperados, many of them with nothing to lose, some of them out of their minds, all of them quintessentially American.
Beadwork is a quintessentially Native American art form, but ironically uses beads imported from Europe and Asia.
I do think that character was quintessentially one thing.
" Land and Freedom " contains a quintessentially Loach sequence of a 12 minute political discussion amongst villagers trying to decide whether or not a village's smallholdings should be collectivized.
His recently revived, Speed the Plow, is quintessentially Aristotelian: it observes the unities, with exception of Act Ii's change in place, and builds its plot through a causal stream of discoveries and reversals.
The narrative is one which documents the quintessentially evil essence of the apostate's former organization chronicled through the apostate's personal experience of capture and ultimate escape / rescue.
The Late Bronze Age state of Ugarit ( modern Ras Shamra in Syria ) is considered quintessentially Canaanite archaeologically, even though its Ugaritic language does not belong to the Canaanite group proper.
With the exception of Antipope Constantine, he was the only pope to take such a " quintessentially " Eastern name of an emperor.
Not until the middle of the 19th century did Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major ( 1842 ) firmly establish music for piano and string quartet as a significant, and quintessentially Romantic, chamber music genre.
Encompassing many different materials, techniques and methods from many different schools, hojojutsu is a quintessentially Japanese art that is a unique product of Japanese history and culture.
The show's most famous character was Mr. Canoehead, a quintessentially Canadian superhero: on a canoeing trip in Algonquin Park, he was hit by lightning while portaging his aluminum canoe, which became permanently welded to his head.
Unlike the film, the novel is narrated by Barry himself, who functions as a quintessentially unreliable narrator, perpetually boasting and not realizing the bad light in which he casts himself.
Australian tastes can be eclectic when it comes to imported comedy from other English speaking countries, with American series like M * A * S * H, Seinfeld, and The Simpsons acquiring devoted followings in Australia-but so too such quintessentially British comedies as Fawlty Towers, The Goodies, Blackadder and The Office.
Fiona MacCarthy in a review of Burne-Jones's legacy notes that he was " a painter who, while quintessentially Victorian, leads us forward to the psychological and sexual introspection of the early twentieth century.
Many African-American intellectuals have commented on and analyzed the paradox that white Americans long regarded many elements of African-American culture quintessentially " American ," while at the same time treating African Americans as second-class citizens.
Many quintessentially " Russian " works were composed in orientalist style, such as Balakirev's Islamey, Borodin's Prince Igor and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.
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Apollo, like other Greek deities, had a number of epithets applied to him, reflecting the variety of roles, duties, and aspects ascribed to the god.
However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.
The improvement of the old Anatolian god, and his elevation to an intellectual sphere, may be considered an achievement of the Greek people.
Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.
However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.
The animistic idea as the representation of the imaginative reality, is sanctified in the Homeric poems and in Greek myths, in stories of the god Hephaestus ( Phaistos ) and the mythic Daedalus ( the builder of the labyrinth ) that made images which moved of their own accord.
The Greek god Hades is known in Greek mythology as the king of the underworld, a place where souls live after death.
The Greek god Hermes, the messenger of the gods, would take the dead soul of a person to the underworld ( sometimes called Hades or the House of Hades ).
The Greek name for amber was ( elektron ), " formed by the sun ", and it was connected to the sun god ( Helios ), one of whose titles was Elector or the Awakener.
In a great majority of instances the name Abrasax is associated with a singular composite figure, having a Chimera-like appearance somewhat resembling a basilisk or the Greek primordial god Chronos ( not to be confused with the Greek titan Cronus ).
The program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the sun by NASA manager Abe Silverstein, who later said that " I was naming the spacecraft like I'd name my baby.
Ares (, Μodern Greek: Άρης ) was the Greek god of war.
His value as a war god is even placed in doubt: during the Trojan War, Ares was on the losing side, while Athena, often depicted in Greek art as holding Nike ( Victory ) in her hand, favored the triumphant Greeks.
There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).
Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:
Ares was also worshipped by the Baharna of Tylos, however it is not known in the form of which Arabian god or if he was worshipped in his Greek form.
In 1804, the German chemist Friedrich Sertürner isolated from opium a " soporific principle " (), which he called " morphium " in honor of Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams ; in German and some other Central-European languages, this is still the name of the drug.
In Greek mythology, Aegina was a daughter of the river god Asopus and the nymph Metope.
Anubis ( or ; ) is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.
In later times, during the Ptolemaic period, Anubis was merged with the Greek god Hermes, becoming Hermanubis.
Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).
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