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Her name in Greek (" tender goddess ") is clearly an epithet, signifying the presence of an earlier nurturing goddess, whom the Hellenes, whose myths we know, knew to be located in Crete, where Minoans may have called her a version of " Dikte ".
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Her name was Sabella, and the strip of seaweed around her neck was an emerald necklace the King gave her as a token of his undying love.
Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek ( Androméda ) or ( Andromédē ): " ruler of men ", from ( anēr, andrós ) " man ", and medon, " ruler ".
Her name was clearly spelled Boudicca in the best manuscripts of Tacitus, but also Βουδουικα, Βουνδουικα, and Βοδουικα in the ( later and probably secondary ) epitome of Cassius Dio.
His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.
In November 2011 there was an Australian tour by various artists involved with the " She Will Her Way " and " He Will Have His Way " projects, under the name " They Will Have Their Way.
Her nickname appears as a store name in the story " Christmas in Duckburg ", featured on page 1 of Walt Disney ’ s Christmas Parade # 9, published in 1958.
Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.
Her character as mother-goddess is identified in the second element of her name meter () derived from Proto-Indo-European * méh₂tēr ( mother ).
Speaking of his wife, Desdemona, Othello the Moor says, " Her name that was as fresh / As Dian's visage, is now begrim'd and black / As mine own face.
and those followers who " chant the name of the Lord " are cleared as outlined thus: " Her account is cleared by the Righteous Judge of Dharma, when she chants the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.
Her name may have to do with the fact that Hylas was the son of Theiodamas, the king of the Dryopes.
Her name was Patrice Amati del Grande, and she became his companion after he separated from his wife.
Her name is an anagram of Grundy ( from Mrs. Grundy, a character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough ).
Her and Greek
Her Latin origins and culture however led to creeping resentment from her Greek subjects ( who felt insulted enough by the late Manuel's Western tastes, let alone being ruled by his Western wife ), building up to an explosion of rioting that almost became a full civil war.
Her classical education left its mark ; Christopher Stray has observed that " George Eliot's novels draw heavily on Greek literature ( only one of her books can be printed correctly without the use of a Greek typeface ), and her themes are often influenced by Greek tragedy ".
* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.
Her mother's maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant ; her mother's other ancestry is Scottish, Irish, and a small amount of Greek.
Her Roman name was Julia Aurelia Zenobia and in Greek, she is known as Zēnobía () or Septimia Zenobia, having added Septimia after marrying Septimius Odaenathus.
Her mythological birthplace was the Sparta of the Age of Heroes, which features prominently in the canon of Greek myth: in later ancient Greek memory, the Mycenaean Bronze Age became the age of the Greek heroes.
Her mother Cleopatra Selene II was a daughter of Ptolemaic Greek queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt from her marriage to Roman Triumvir Mark Antony.
Her name comes from the Greek word αδαμας ( adamas ), meaning " untameable " and θεά, the Greek word for goddess.
Her early Greek images are small votive representations of her monumental rock-cut images in the Phrygian highlands ; she stands alone within a naiskos, which represents her temple or its doorway, and is crowned with a polos ( a high, cylindrical hat ), with a long, flowing chiton that cover her shoulders and back.
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