In Homer, her saffron-coloured robe is embroidered or woven with flowers ; rosy-fingered and with golden arms, she is pictured on Attic vases as a beautiful woman, crowned with a tiara or diadem and with the large white-feathered wings of a bird.

However, in the account of Attic vase-painters, Hephaestus was present at the birth of Athena and wields the axe with which he split Zeus ' head to free her.

On an Attic red-figured bell krater of ca 440 BC in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Persephone is rising as if up stairs from a cleft in the earth, while Hermes stands aside ; Hecate, holding two torches, looks back as she leads her to the enthroned Demeter.

Sappho reading to her companions on an Attic vase of c. 435 BC

Part of the reason for her disappearance from the standard canon was the predominance of Attic and Homeric Greek as the languages required to be studied.

Penelope is recognizable in Greek and Roman works, from Attic vase-paintings — the Penelope Painter is recognized by his representations of her — to Roman sculpture copying or improvising upon classical Greek models, by her seated pose, by her reflective gesture of leaning her cheek on her hand, and by her protectively crossed knees, reflecting her long chastity in Odysseus ' absence, an unusual pose in any other figure.

Furious Maenad, carrying a thyrsus and a panther, with a snake rolled up over her head. Tondo of an Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek Attic white-ground Kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix 490-480 BC from Vulci. Staatliche Antikensammlungen Munich Germany.

Attic authors later than Homer, including the dramatists knew a nightingale myth in which Procne was married to Tereus, who betrayed her by violating her sister Philomela, whose tongue he cut out so that she could not tell.

The Attic tradition, reproduced in Euripides ( Ion ), regarded the Gorgon as a monster, produced by Gaia to aid her children, the Titans, against the new Olympian deities.

She reprised her London stage role in the southern gothic Toys in the Attic ( 1963 ), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as the elder spinster sister in a film which also starred Dean Martin and Geraldine Page.

Sappho reading to her companions on an Attic vase of c. 435 BC.

1997's Happy Town featured Sobule's most elaborate pop productions to date and contains songs about an eclectic range of topics including reactionary Christianity (" Soldiers of Christ "), the negative impact of anti-depressant medication on the libido (" Happy Town ") and what is either the only track ever recorded that uses Anne Frank's enforced Nazi-era hibernation as the metaphor for a love song or the only song about Anne Frank that couches her life and death in the terms of a tussle over loyalty between two lovers (" Attic ").

) Stapleton played in other Williams ' productions, including Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton and Orpheus Descending ( and its film adaptation, The Fugitive Kind, co-starring her friend Marlon Brando ), as well as Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic.

Karen Poole ( born Karen Ann Poole, 8 January 1971, Chadwell Heath, London, England ) is an English songwriter and singer, who gained initial fame with her younger sister, Shelly Poole, as the duo / band, Alisha's Attic.

With her sister Karen, she formed the duo band, Alisha's Attic, in 1989.

The text was written in a form of artificial Attic Greek, and it is one of only a few examples of a woman writing about the political and military history of her own country, and it is also a valuable source as to ascertain the Byzantine perception of the Crusaders.

It is possible that Da () ( which became Attic De ()), is the Doric form of Ge (), " earth "; the old name of the chthonic earth-goddess and Demeter is " Mother-Earth ".

The local name was stamped on the coinage of the unified Epirote commonwealth: ΑΠΕΙΡΟΤΑΝ ( Āpeirōtān, Attic Greek equivalent: Ēpeirōtōn, i. e. " of the Epirotes ", see image right ).

His only known work, the Attic Nights (), takes its name from having been begun during the long nights of a winter which he spent in Attica.

Notably, the subject of the Attic calyx-krater from Orvieto conserved in the Musée du Louvre has provided the name for the so-called " Niobid Painter ".

Perhaps the pel-element in their name was originally connected with " black " or " muddy " root elements in names like Peleus or Pelops and peliganes ( Epirotian, Macedonian senators ), Attic polios, Doric peleios grey, old, PIE * pel -, " gray ".

The month Anthesterion is named after the festival, not vice versa, and since the month's name is not restricted to the Attic calendar, but was known also in Ionia, it was considered by the Ancients that the festival predates the Ionian colonisation, making it the oldest datable part of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

The letters are included in the second edition of House of Leaves, in Appendix II, under the name E-The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute Letters, although the companion piece includes eleven additional letters not found in House of Leaves.

( 2 ) At this point one of the women present, Thais by name and Attic by origin, said that for Alexander it would be the finest of all his feats in Asia if he joined them in a triumphal procession, set fire to the palaces, and permitted women's hands in a minute to extinguish the famed accomplishments of the Persians.

* the Berlin Painter ( active c. 490s-c. 460s BCE ), the conventional name given to an Attic Greek vase-painter

Demetrius was the last among the Attic orators worthy of the name, after which the activity went into a decline.

The genus name Cecropis is taken from that of an Athenian tribe, who were themselves named for the half-dragon mythical Attic king Cecrops I.

The band was originally known as " Noelle ", and released an album called " This Summer " under that name, which was later re-recorded under the name From the Attic

The name comes from the Attic theater, in which a tetralogy was a group of three tragedies followed by a satyr play, all by one author, to be played in one sitting at the Dionysia as part of a competition.

In a long-running television advertising campaign for the Canadian A & W chain, his theme was a tuba-driven jingle entitled " Ba-Dum, Ba-Dum " which was released as a single by Attic Records in Canada, credited to " Major Ursus ", a play on the constellation name Ursa Major, which means " great bear ".

The last significant representative of the first generation of painters was Sophilos ( 580 – 570 BC ), who is the first Attic vase painter known by name.

In 1985, before adopting the name " Earache Records ", Pearson released Anglican Scrape Attic, a compilation of early hardcore punk and crossover acts ( Hirax, Lipcream, Concrete Sox, etc .).

* korwa girl ( Attic korê ) ( Pamphylian name Korwalina )

About 580 BC he transplanted the Megarian comedy ( if the rude extempore jests and buffoonery deserve the name ) into the Attic deme of Icaria, the cradle also of Greek tragedy and the oldest seat of the worship of Dionysus.

), as well as from some common nouns proved by evidence ( Πενέσται, name for the conquered population in classical Thessaly ; Πελάσται, name for the farmers bound to the land in Attic ).

A number of examples suggest that voiced velar stops were devoiced, especially word-initially: kánadoi, ' jaws ' (< PIE * genu -); kómbous, ' molars ' (< PIE * gombh -); within words: arkón ( Attic argós ); the Macedonian toponym Akesamenai, from the Pierian name Akesamenos ( if Akesa-is cognate to Greek agassomai, agamai, " to astonish "; cf.

In 1907, along with others, he established the Igiso ( Ἡγησώ, from the Attic Greek name Hēgēso ) magazine, in which he published his works.

Sophilos is the oldest Attic vase painter so far to be known by his true name.

κοδράντης ( kodrantes ), means a quadrans ( about the fourth part of an " as "); in the New Testament a coin equal to one half the Attic chalcus worth about 3 / 8 of a cent.

Berenice or Berenike (, Berenikē ) is the Ancient Macedonian form for Attic Greek Φερενίκη ( Pherenikē ), meaning " bearer of victory ", from φέρω ( pherō ) " to bear " + νίκη ( nikē ) " victory ".

* Attic chōrā ~ Ionic chōrē " place ", " country "

* Homeric boē-tho-os → Attic boēthos " running to a cry ", " helper in battle "

Attic retained Proto-Greek h-( from Proto-Indo-European initial s-or y -), but certain other dialects lost it ( psilosis " stripping ", " de-aspiration ").

* The Attic adjectival ending-eios and corresponding noun ending, both two-syllable with the diphthong ei, stand in place of ēios, with three syllables, in other dialects: politeia, Cretan politēia, " constitution ", both from politewia, where the w drops out.

In Attic-Ionic the stem vowel has changed to long e ( eta ) in the singular, except ( in Attic only ) after e, i, r: gnome, gnomes, gnome ( i ), gnomen, etc., " opinion ", but thea, theas, thea ( i ), thean, etc., " goddess.

In Attic Greek an original genitive singular ending *- osyo after losing the s ( as happens in all the dialects ) lengthens the stem o to the spurious diphthong-ou ( see above under Phonology, Vowels ): logos " the word ", logou from * logosyo, " of the word ".

* Doric hiaros, Artamis ~ Attic hieros " holy ", Artemis

There is confusion also about his place of birth, " Megara ", which Plato for example understood to be Megara Hyblaea in Sicily, while a scholiast on Plato cites Didymus for the rival theory that the poet was born in a Megara in Attica, and ventures the opinion that Theognis might have later migrated to the Sicilian Megara ( a similar theory had assigned an Attic birthplace to the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus ).

Charles Shadwell " in his younger days " had been " strikingly handsome, both in figure and feature ", " with a face like those to be seen on the finer Attic coins "; he had been the unnamed inspiration of an unpublished early paper of Pater's, ' Diaphaneitè ' ( 1864 ), a tribute to youthful beauty and intellect, the manuscript of which Pater gave to Shadwell.

* Koine Greek-also referred to as " the common dialect " or " Alexandrian dialect ", " common Attic " or " Hellenistic Greek "-the universal dialect spoken throughout post-Classical antiquity ( c. 300 BC – 300 AD )

This is a re-recording of " Dream Child " from the 1998 album " The Christmas Attic ", this time with Tim Hockenberry on lead vocals.

The band had a minor hit in " Dream On ", which peaked at No. 59 in 1973, but it wasn't until the back-to-back releases of Toys in the Attic ( 1975 ) and Rocks ( 1976 ) that Aerosmith broke into the mainstream.

The so-called " Memnon pieta ", Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek Attic Red-figure pottery | red-figure cup, ca.

The soundtrack consists of several Aerosmith songs continuously looped, including " Eat The Rich ", " Sweet Emotion ", " Toys in the Attic " and " Walk This Way ".

A brief clip of the Third Doctor taken from Terror of the Autons appears in " The Next Doctor ", another appears in The Sarah Jane Adventures story " The Mad Woman in the Attic " as a flashback, and visions appear in " The Eleventh Hour ", " The Lodger " and The Sarah Jane Adventures story " Death of the Doctor.

The preference for Attic vases led to the development of local South Italian and Etrurian workshops or " schools ", strongly influenced by Attic style, but producing exclusively for local markets.