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In Greek legend, for instance, it was Poseidon ( god of the sea ) who raised the storms which blew Odysseus ' craft off course on his return journey, and Japanese tradition holds that a god-sent wind saved them from Mongol invasion.
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Some heroes of Greek legend are allowed to visit the underworld.
In a Greek legend, Icarus and his father Daedalus built wings of feathers and wax and flew out of a prison.
The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.
The legend was a popular motif in art during Greek and Roman antiquity and served as an antithetical cautionary tale.
Although historically inaccurate, the legend of the Greek messenger Pheidippides running to Athens with news of the victory became the inspiration for this athletic event, introduced at the 1896 Athens Olympics, and originally run between Marathon and Athens.
The epithet is connected with dolphins ( Greek δελφίς ,- ῖνος ) in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo ( line 400 ), recounting the legend of how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carrying Cretan priests on his back.
The Principia Discordia states that her parents may be as described in Greek legend, or that she may be the daughter of Void.
The most notable examples are found in the work of Greek historians of the 6th century BC: their intention was to connect notable families of their own day to a distant and heroic past, and in doing so they did not distinguish between myth, legend, and facts.
Massalia ( modern Marseille ) silver coin with Greek legend, a testimony to Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, 5th – 1st century BCE.
The Greek legend of " Barlaam and Ioasaph " is sometimes attributed to the 7th century John of Damascus, but actually it was transcribed by the Georgian monk Euthymius in the 11th century.
277 mentions the legend that it was Carmenta, the Cimmerian Sibyl, who altered fifteen letters of the Greek alphabet to become the Latin alphabet, which her son Evander introduced into Latium, supposedly 60 years before the Trojan War, but there is no historically sound basis to this tale ).
Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren finished his career with a short film named Narcissus, re-telling the Greek legend through ballet.
According to legend, it was draped around the Greek goddess Aphrodite when she rose from the sea, born of Ouranos's semen.
The date of the 3rd century BCE, given in the legend, is confirmed ( for the Torah translation ) by a number of factors, including the Greek being representative of early Koine, citations beginning as early as the 2nd century BCE, and early manuscripts datable to the 2nd century.
This yomi is very close to the Greek Hades however later myths include notions of resurrection and even elysium-like descriptions such as with the legend of Okuninushi and Susanoo.
Massalia ( modern Marseille ) silver coin with Greek legend, 5th-1st century B. C.
* Cherríe Moraga, The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea ( combines classical Greek myth Medea with Mexicana / o legend of La Llorona and Aztec myth of lunar deity Coyolxauhqui )
It seems that the first Macedonian state emerged in the 8th or early 7th century BC under the Argead Dynasty, who, according to legend, migrated to the region from the Greek city of Argos in Peloponnesus ( thus the name Argead ).
Many stories from antiquity involve flight, such as the Greek legend of Icarus and Daedalus, and the Pushpaka Vimana in ancient Indian epics.
There is nothing to fill the gap until history begins with the classical Greek historian, Herodotus, who mentions them extensively, except legend.
The name of the athletic long-distance endurance race, the " marathon ", comes from the legend of a Greek runner, who was sent from the town of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been miraculously defeated in the Battle of Marathon.
# Finally ( 4. 13 ), a legend which Herodotus attributed to the Greek bard Aristeas, who claimed to have got himself into such a Bachanalian fury that he ran all the way northeast across Scythia and further.
A legend regarding a link with the name of the ancient Greek colony persists, so there might be some truth in the oral tradition.
Another tradition indicates Taras as the founder of the city ; the symbol of the Greek city ( as well as of the modern city ) depicts the legend of Taras being saved from a shipwreck by riding a dolphin that was sent to him by Poseidon.
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Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.
The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.
Hegel's profound admiration for the insights of the Greek tragedians indicates a broad channel of classical influence upon nineteenth-century philosophy.
Greek boys and girls also go for rock-and-roll, and the stations most tuned to are those carrying United States overseas programs.
The word `` tragedy '' encloses for us in a single span both the Greek and the Elizabethan example.
Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.
Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption.
`` The great Greek tragedies are concerned with man against Fate, not man against man for the prize of a woman's body.
( Hymen, in fact, is the Greek word for membrane.
The Greek evidently fell for her, `` Monsieur X '' recounted, and to clinch what he thought was an affair in the making he gave her 100,000 francs ( about $300 ) and led her to the roulette tables.
Scientists assume that cholesterol ( from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and sterios, meaning solid ) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight.
After Thomas Aquinas wrote his theology, working from Moerbeke's translations, the demand for Aristotle's writings grew and the Greek manuscripts returned to the West, stimulating a revival of Aristotelianism in Europe that continued into the Renaissance.
The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.
Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War in retribution for Agamemnon's insult to Chryses, a priest of Apollo whose daughter Chryseis had been captured.
The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.
The muscular frames and limbs combined with slim waists indicate the Greek desire for health, and the physical capacity which was necessary in the hard Greek environment.
The adoption of a standard recognizable type for a long time, is probably because nature gives preference in survival of a type which has long be adopted by the climatic conditions, and also due to the general Greek belief that nature expresses itself in ideal forms that can be imagined and represented.
The Greek sculptors tried to clarify it by looking for mathematical proportions, just as they sought some reality behind appearances.
The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.
The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).
The earliest archaeological evidence for the use of the Greek abacus dates to the 5th century BC.
The Greek abacus was a table of wood or marble, pre-set with small counters in wood or metal for mathematical calculations.
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