Some heroes of Greek legend are allowed to visit the underworld.

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.

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.

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.

Some believe the name came from an island off the Greek coast, where it is believed that the mythical Icarus was buried, which resembled Failaka.

Osawa intended to make Kid Icarus an action game with role-playing elements, and wrote a story rooted in Greek mythology, which he had always been fond of.

Icarus is a character in Greek mythology.

* Icarus, a Greek airline that preceded Olympic Airlines

In Greek mythology, there were two people named Icarius or Ikários () ( and another named Icarus ).

In Greek mythology, Icarus ( the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English ;, Íkaros, Etruscan: Vikare ) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus.

Icarus ' flight was often alluded to by Greek poets in passing, but the story was told briefly in Pseudo-Apollodorus.

It derived its name from Icarus, the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who fell into the sea nearby.

Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Icarus, after the Icarus of Greek mythology.

The airline was called Icarus but after just a few months went bankrupt due to financial problems and limited Greek interest in air transport.

It is named after Icarus of Greek mythology, who flew too close to the Sun.

Called the " Mythological issue ", its designs, by M. Biskinis, depicted figures from ancient Greek mythology like Daedalus and Icarus, Helios and Athena.

Both sides locate alien artifacts, and the Americans also find a factory ; the long-dead alien race that created the bio-metal is identified as the Cthonians, who inhabited the planet Icarus ( now the asteroid belt ) and visited Earth on several occasions, influencing Greek mythology.

Humanity's desire to fly likely dates to the first time man observed birds, an observation illustrated in the legendary stories of Daedalus and Icarus in Greek mythology, and the Vimanas in Indian mythology.

At some point following Alexander the Great's initial advance through the region in 331 BC or in the period 324 / 3 BC when he returned to Mesopotamia, the ancient Greeks colonized the island, which they named Ikaros after the Greek island in the Aegean Sea and the mythical hero Icarus, apparently in the belief that the island had a similar shape of its Aegean counterpart.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

Amyntas III ( Greek: Ἀμύντας Γ ΄, died 370 BC ), son of Arrhidaeus and father of Philip II, was king of Macedon in 393 BC, and again from 392 to 370 BC.

In Greek mythology, the constellation is sometimes identified as Amalthea, the goat that suckled the infant Zeus after his mother Rhea saved him from being devoured by his father Cronos ( in Greek mythology ).

A 2nd century CE Greek known as Heraclitus the paradoxographer --- not to be confused with the 5th century BCE Greek philosopher Heraclitus --- claimed Euhemeristically that Cerberus had two pups which were never away from their father, as such Cerberus was in fact a normal ( however very large ) dog but artists incorporating the two pups into their work made it appear as if his two children were in fact extra heads.

Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of restaurateurs Cliffie ( née Cardullias ) and Chris Sarandon, Sr. His mother is of Greek descent and his father, whose surname was originally " Sarondonethes ", was a Greek immigrant.

b. between A. D. 200 and 214, d. between 284 and 298 at age 84 ), sometimes called " the father of algebra ", was an Alexandrian Greek mathematician and the author of a series of books called Arithmetica.

According to Jesuit scholar Joseph Fitzmyer, the book, " overwhelms the reader by the density and sublimity of the topic with which it deals, the gospel of the justification and salvation of Jew and Greek alike by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, revealing the uprightness and love of God the father.

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

The piece was an extravaganza in which the classical Greek gods, grown elderly, are temporarily replaced by a troupe of 19th-century actors and actresses, one of whom is the eponymous Thespis, the Greek father of the drama.

Unlike their father, Hesiod was averse to sea travel but he once crossed the narrow strait between the Greek mainland and Euboea to participate in funeral celebrations for one Athamas of Chalcis, where he won a tripod in a singing competition.

Hannibal ’ s vision of military affairs, derived partly from the teaching of his Greek tutors and experience gained alongside his father, stretched over most of the Hellenistic World of his time.

His father presumably gave him the same education that he himself had received, including Greek language.

His grandfather, Bacchius, had a Greek name, while his father, Priscus bore a Latin name, which has led to speculations that his ancestors may have settled in Neapolis soon after its establishment or that they may have descended from a Roman ' diplomatic ' community that had been sent there.

Sanskrit pati, lord, Greek Pater, father, master.

Disgruntled with his opportunities in Etruria ( he had been prohibited from obtaining political office in Tarquinii because of the ethnicity of his father, Demaratus the Corinthian, who came from the Greek city of Corinth ), he migrated to Rome with his wife Tanaquil, at her suggestion.