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Her Roman equivalent is Diana.
Boudica's story is the subject of several novels, including books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Roxanne Gregory, Pauline Gedge, Manda Scott, Alan Gold, Diana L. Paxson, David Wishart, George Shipway, Simon Scarrow and J. F. Broxholme ( a pseudonym of Duncan Kyle ).
It is more rustic than the castle, and was often the home of Charles and Diana when they visited.
In The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy, Diana Slampyak claims that Jen is a medieval hero in exile.
The second paragraph is largely derived and paraphrased from the words that Aradia, the messianic daughter of Diana, speaks to her followers in Charles Godfrey Leland's 1899 book Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, London: David Nutt ; various reprints.
Titian's Diana and Callisto ( 1559 ) portrays the moment when Callisto's pregnancy is discovered ( National Gallery of Scotland ).
She is the niece of Diana Barrymore and the grandniece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and Helene Costello, the great-great-granddaughter of John Drew and actress Louisa Lane Drew, and the great grandniece of Broadway idol John Drew, Jr. and silent film actor / writer / director Sidney Drew.
Diana was worshiped in ancient Roman religion and is revered in Roman Neopaganism and Stregheria.
Diana ( pronounced with long ' ī ' and ' ā ') is an adjectival form developed from an ancient * divios, corresponding to later ' divus ', ' dius ', as in Dius Fidius, Dea Dia and in the neuter form dium meaning the sky.
The persona of Diana is complex and contains a number of archaic features.
The celestial character of Diana is reflected in her connection with light, inaccessibility, virginity, and her preference for dwelling on high mountains and in sacred woods.
Her function as bestower of authority to rule is also attested in the story related by Livy in which a Sabine man who sacrifices a heifer to Diana wins for his country the seat of the Roman empire.
It is noteworthy that the list includes Luna and Diana Lucina as separate entities.
As far as Nemi's Diana is concerned there are two different versions, by Strabo and Servius Honoratus.
If she is accompanied by a deer, as in the Diana of Versailles ( illustration, above right ) this is because Diana was the patroness of hunting.
Worship of Diana is mentioned in the Bible.
In Acts of the Apostles, Ephesian metal smiths who felt threatened by Saint Paul ’ s preaching of Christianity, jealously rioted in her defense, shouting “ Great is Diana of the Ephesians !” ( Acts 19: 28, New English Bible ).
After the city secretary ( γραμματεύς ) quieted the crowd, he said, “ Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper ( guardian ) of the temple of the great Diana and of her image that fell from heaven?
Its location is remarkable as the Aventine is situated outside the pomerium, i. e. original territory of the city, in order to comply with the tradition that Diana was a goddess common to all Latins and not exclusively of the Romans.
* At Tibur ( Tivoli ), where she is referred to as Diana Opifera Nemorensis.

Diana and referred
Holcomb was referred to as " Diana Hall " by the editor of the Aerosmith autobiography Walk This Way in an attempt to conceal her identity, but other sources have confirmed her identity.
After the Iliad, Aphrodite herself was sometimes referred to as Dionaea and even Dione. The Roman goddess Diana has a similar etymology and was worshipped in a vaguely similar way but is not otherwise connected with Dione.
Instead Wonder Woman was simply referred to as " Diana of Themyscira " when not in costume.
However, Diana, Princess of Wales, was so consistently referred to as " Princess Diana " that by frequent usage ( at least in her case ) it has come to be accepted occasionally by official sources such as the Royal website and also in the media.
* the Roman Temple of Évora ( also referred to as Templo de Diana in Portuguese ), in Portugal
This is similar to the Golden Age version of the character, who often referred to Diana as the " angel " who rescued him from the plane crash.
Because the book contained much unknown information about Ross ' alleged diva-ish behavior onstage and off, some people jokingly referred to the book as " Diana Dearest " ( this name was inspired by Christina Crawford's memoir Mommie Dearest ).
In this particular issue the character of Wonder Girl is referred to as if she is an entity entirely different from Diana, a character unto herself.
# The Queen decided, in deference to public opinion regarding the late Diana, Princess of Wales, that Camilla would not be entitled Princess of Wales and would only be referred to as Duchess of Cornwall.

Diana and Night
In 1977, a film version of A Little Night Music was released, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.
" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).
Following Scarface, she accepted the roles of Isabeau d ' Anjou in Richard Donner's fantasy film Ladyhawke ( 1985 ) opposite Rutger Hauer and Matthew Broderick, Diana in John Landis ' comedy Into the Night ( 1985 ) opposite Jeff Goldblum, Faith Healy in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty ( 1986 ) opposite Michael Caine, and Brenda Landers in a segment of the 1950s sci-fi parody Amazon Women on the Moon ( 1987 ), all of which, despite achieving only modest commercial success, helped to establish her as an actress.
Subsequent conductors at the Last Night have generally continued this tradition, although one exception was in 1997 when Sir Andrew Davis more seriously addressed the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, Mother Teresa, and Sir Georg Solti in his 1997 Last Night speech.
* Armando Iannucci's Friday Night Armistice ( 1996 – 98 ) featured " the bus of Dianas ", a bus full of Princess Diana look-alikes which was dispatched to " care " at the sites of various minor tragedies.
In 1991, he joined Diana Muldaur and Ally Walker in the NBC Monday Night Movie Perry Mason and the Case of the Fatal Fashion, as a young prosecutor.
* " Difficult Writings: AIDS and the Activist Aesthetic in Reinaldo Arenas ' Before Night Falls ," By: Diana Davidson, Atenea, 2003 Dec ; 23 ( 2 ): 53-71.
** Diana Dors as Mary Hilton, recites the poem " Loveliest of trees the cherry now " before being hanged, in the 1956 British film Yield To The Night
In the television version of Trading Places, Clarence Beeks drugs a security guard and steals the crop report while Sunset Boulevard is showing ; in Into the Night in Hamid's apartment, the movie Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is playing while Ed is looking for Diana and later, when Mr. Morris fighting with Mr. Williams.
The cover features a design made earlier by Morrissey but previously unused, and stars singer and actress Diana Dors in a still from the 1956 film Yield to the Night.
**" The Secrets That You Keep ", " Living Doll ", " One Night ", " Tallahassee Lassie ", " Let's Have A Party ", " Tobacco Road ", " Oh Boy ", " I Love How You Love Me ", " Hula Love ", " Diana " ( Produced by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman )
**" Crazy ", " Hypnosis ", " Dyna-mite ", " Tiger Feet ", " The Cat Crept In ", " Rocket ", " Hippy Hippy Shake ", " The Secrets That You Keep ", " Oh Boy ", " Moonshine Sally ", " One Night ", " Blue Moon ", " End Of The World ", " Tallahassee Lassie ", " Let's Have A Party ", " Living Doll ", " Diana ", " In The Mood ", " Hula Love ", " Lonely This Christmas "
She appeared in Ryan's Hope in 1977 and 1980, and was part of the cast of Saturday Night Live in the 1981 – 1982 season, acting as Weekend Update co-anchor with Brian Doyle-Murray and at times impersonating Mary Travers, Cheryl Tiegs, Barbara Mandrell, Diana, Princess of Wales and Rona Barrett.
She was cast alongside Diana Rigg and Elizabeth Taylor in the 1977 film version of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music and appeared in Roman Polanski's Tess in 1979.
Winner of the Sulman Prize in 1986 with Black Sun-Morning and Night and the Archibald Prize in 1996 with Self Portrait-as Diana of Erskineville, she has entered the Archibald Prize at least 6 times and been hung at least 3 times.
Diana Dougherty ( née Stewart, born 18 January 1979 ) is an English television presenter, best known as the presenter of Golf Night on Sky Sports.

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