A portion of this pool remains unexcavated, as the land above it is owned by a nearby Greek Orthodox church and is occupied by an orchard known as the King's Garden ( compare ).

The term the Agony of Jesus is more specifically applied to the Agony in the Garden ( Greek agon ) Jesus ' action praying before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane ; similarly to passion, agony has been extended to denote a frame of mind.

" The Greek word used here for paradise, ' paradeisos ' ( παραδεισος ), was derived from an ancient Persian word meaning " enclosed garden "), and was used in the Septuagint to describe the Garden of Eden.

Savalas, the second of five children, was born as Aristotelis Savalas in Garden City, NY, to Greek American parents Christina ( née Kapsalis ), a New York City artist who was a native of Sparti, and Nick Savalas, a Greek restaurant owner.

The campus also houses a Greek Theater used for concerts and performances, the Shakespeare Garden, completed in 1931, and a greenhouse, built in 1911 and a popular site for visitors.

The Sibylline oracles are therefore a pastiche of Greek and Roman pagan mythology, employing motifs of Homer and Hesiod ; Judeo-Christian legends such as the Garden of Eden, Noah and the Tower of Babel ; Gnostic and early Christian homilies and eschatological writings ; thinly veiled references to historical figures such as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra, as well as many allusions to the events of the later Roman Empire, often portraying Rome in a negative light.

Although starting out in life humbly enough ( he was working as a shoemaker in Covent Garden around 1680 ), Partridge managed to teach himself enough Latin, Greek, Hebrew and astrology to enroll at Leyden University, Holland.

The cast lived at the Belfort Mansion, a, two-story 19th Century Greek revival mansion at 2618 St. Charles Avenue in the Garden District of New Orleans.

* Scene: In A Greek Garden

The Melody of Oblivion is a series rife with cultural references ranging from Zen archery and Bushido to the Bible's Book of Revelation, stories of Greek Mythology, and images from Borge's " The Garden of Forking Paths " can be seen in the series.

During the 1980s, José José sold out Madison Square Garden, The Dunes and performed several seasons at the Las Vegas Hilton, Greek Theatre, and the Tropicana Casino and Resort Atlantic City among others.

* 2003-2004: Board Member of the Greek Agricultural Research Institute ( 2001-2004 ), Vice-Chairman of the Greek Market Garden Society

Symphony No. 7 in G minor (" Athonite ") lasts for one hour, and is in three movements: I " Pilgrimage ", II " Ek Batheon " ( the Greek, Έκ βαθέον, meaning " from the depths ", or in Latin, " de Profundis ") and III FINALE " The Garden of the Panaghia ", referring to the Greek Orthodox monastic idea that the peninsula Mount Athos ( Άγιον Όρος, Agion Oros ) forms a garden for the all-holy one, the Theotokos, or Mother-of-God.

* PDF: " Kêpopoiïa: Garden-Making and Garden Culture in the Greek Geoponica ," in Byzantine Garden Culture, ed.

Notable works by Mark Morris include Gloria ( 1981 ), set to Vivaldi ; Championship Wrestling ( 1985 ), based on an essay by Roland Barthes ; L ' Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato ( 1988 ); Dido and Æneas ( 1989 ); The Hard Nut ( 1991 ), his version of The Nutcracker set in the 1970s ; The Office ( 1995 ); Greek to Me ( 2000 ); a dance version of the Virgil Thomson – Gertrude Stein opera Four Saints in Three Acts ( 2001 ); the ballet A Garden ( 2001 ); Grand Duo ( 1993 ); V ( 2002 ) and All Fours ( 2004 ).

The Italian Garden features a Fountain of Apollo, a wrought iron eagle statue purchased from the Paris Exposition of 1900, life-size statues of Greek gods and goddesses, floral urns mounted on marble pedestals, and two semi-circular pergolas with Tuscan columns, marble benches and statuary.

In the Central Garden, which seems a Greek theater, are celebrated the commencement ceremonies ; and the bust of Francisco Marroquin presides the garden.

* The Hesperides of Greek mythology

In Greek mythology Ladon coiled around the tree in the garden of the Hesperides protecting the entheogenic golden apples.

In Greek mythology, the Hesperides () are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean.

According to the Sicilian Greek poet Stesichorus, in his poem the " Song of Geryon ", and the Greek geographer Strabo, in his book Geographika ( volume III ), the Hesperides are in Tartessos, a location placed in the south of the Iberian peninsula.

Ordinarily the Hesperides number three, like the other Greek triads ( the Three Graces and the Moirai ).

* Hesperia, one of the Hesperides in Greek mythology

Erebus features little in Greek mythological tradition and literature, but is said to have fathered several other deities by Nyx ; depending on the source of the mythology, this union includes Aether, Hemera, the Hesperides, Hypnos, the Moirai, Geras, Styx, and Thanatos.

In Greek mythology, Geryon (; genitive: Γηρυόνος ) son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe and grandson of Medusa, was a fearsome giant who dwelt on the island Erytheia of the mythic Hesperides in the far west of the Mediterranean.

In Greek mythology, Hesperius (" evening ") was ( according to one account ) the mother of the Hesperides by Atlas.

Some ancient Greek writers located at Lixus the mythological garden of the Hesperides, the keepers of the golden apples.

Some ancient Greek writers located at Lixus the mythological garden of the Hesperides, the keepers of the golden apples.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

My other nugget of art and architectural knowledge -- besides remembering that it was Ghiberti who designed the doors of the baptistery in Florence -- is the three styles of Greek columns.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Milton was required to absorb and display an intensive and accurate knowledge of Latin grammar, logic-rhetoric, ethics, physics or natural philosophy, metaphysics, and Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

Greek civilization was swirling toward its great revolution, in which the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook were suddenly to break forth.

It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.

Milman Parry rigorously defended the observation that the extant Homeric poems are largely formulaic, and was led to postulate that they could be shown entirely formulaic if the complete corpus of Greek epic survived ; ;

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.

The study of Greek was the distinctive mark of boys destined to go to college, and Lucy Upton too expected to go to college and take the full classical course offered to men.

-- Greece and West Germany have ratified an agreement under which Germany will pay $28,700,000 to Greek victims of Nazi persecution, it was announced today.

The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; ;

In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

Marie-Louise von Franz tells us the double approach of Western alchemy was set from the start, when Greek philosophy was mixed with Egyptian and Mesopotamian technology.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

In Greek mythology Artemis was the leader ( ηγεμόνη: hegemone ) of the nymphs, who had similar functions with the Nordic Elves.