The program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the sun by NASA manager Abe Silverstein, who later said that " I was naming the spacecraft like I'd name my baby.

Frank Gaebelein observes that " Greek mercenaries and slaves served in the Babylonian and Assyrian periods, some of whom were undoubtedly versed in Greek music and musical instruments.

The word music comes from the Greek mousikê ( tekhnê ) by way of the Latin musica.

Early epic poetry was also accompanied by music, and pitch changes associated with the accented Greek must have highlighted the melody, though the exact mechanism is still a topic of discussion.

The result was Pas de Dieux, based on Greek mythology, combined with the music of George Gershwin's Concerto in F. It was a major success, and led to his being honoured with the Chevalier of the Legion d ' Honneur by the French Government.

Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies.

Greek musical literacy created a flowering of music development.

Greek music theory included the Greek musical modes, that eventually became the basis for Western religious and classical music.

Later, influences from the Roman Empire, Eastern Europe, and the Byzantine Empire changed Greek music.

The music from Mythodea by Greek composer Vangelis was used as the theme music for the mission.

The music notation is the line of occasional symbols above the main, uninterrupted line of Greek lettering.

* MAD TV ( Greece ), a Greek music channel

( Other Greek mourning customs include not playing music, not entertaining guests, and using no festive decorations, e. g. on Christmas, during the customary year-long mourning period ).

She studied French, Spanish, music, dance, and perhaps Greek.

A. E. Housman refers to the ' Greek Lad ', Narcissus, in his poem Look not in my Eyes from A Shropshire Lad set to music by several English composers including George Butterworth.

Category: Ancient Greek music theorists

The word psalms is derived from the Greek Ψαλμοί ( Psalmoi ), perhaps originally meaning " music of the lyre " or " songs sung to a harp " and then to any piece of music.

It is found in many forms of music: Greek folk music, Italian folk music, classical music, Persian music, gospel music, pop music and rock music.

Greek history and culture were enduringly fertilized, and plagued, by the interplay of these conjoined yet opposed factors.

In Greek culture each of the nine Muses oversaw a different field of human creation:

Category: Greek culture

Anacharsis the son of Gnurus, a Scythian chief, was half Greek and from a mixed Hellenistic culture, apparently in the region of the Cimmerian Bosporus.

In early manhood ( c. 464 – 461 BC ) he went to Athens, which was rapidly becoming the centre of Greek culture.

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.

Category: Ancient Greek culture

Category: Greek culture

During the middle of the first millennium BC, Greek culture experienced a gradual change in the perception of female breasts.

Though Western culture contained several polytheistic religions during its early years under the Greek and Roman empires, as the centralized Roman power waned, the dominance of the Catholic Church was the only consistent force in Europe.

Ptolemy's catalogue is informed by Eudoxus of Cnidus, a Greek astronomer of the 4th century BC who introduced earlier Babylonian astronomy to the Hellenistic culture.

A distinctive Neolithic culture amalgamating Anatolian and mainland Greek elements arose in the western Aegean before 4000 BCE, based on emmer wheat and wild-type barley, sheep and goats, pigs, and tuna that were apparently speared from small boats ( Rutter ).

The cause of tensions in the east was complicated, involving the spread of Greek culture, Roman law and the rights of Jews.

He then embarks on a discussion of the origins of Greek culture and technology, arguing that most of the important figures in the Greek world were foreigners, and ( erroneously ) that Jewish culture was the most significant influence on Greece.

Other hybrid creatures appear in Greek mythology, always with some liminal connection that links Hellenic culture with archaic or non-Hellenic cultures:

In ancient times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city states in Sicily, southern Italy, northern Libya, eastern Spain, the south of France, and the Black Sea coasts.

The artisans and blacksmiths of Iberia in what is now southern Spain and southwestern France produced various iron daggers and swords of high quality from the 5th to the 3rd century BC, in ornamentation and patterns influenced by Greek, Punic ( Carthaginian ), and Phoenician culture.

An epic ( from the Ancient Greek adjective ( epikos ), from ( epos ) " word, story, poem ") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

While Greek culture placed a greater emphasis on prowess and power, Paris chose to award the apple to Aphrodite, thereby dooming his city, which was destroyed in the war that ensued.

The same has been said of Ancient Greek society, a culture where, in Bruno Snell's words, if " honour is destroyed the moral existence of the loser collapses.

A semantically similar etymology exists for nectar, the beverage of the gods ( Greek: νέκταρ, néktar ) presumed to be a compound of the PIE roots * nek -, " death ", and -* tar, " overcoming ".

Below is the conjugation of the verb to be in the present tense ( of the infinitive, if it exists, and indicative moods ), in English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Latvian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Polish, Slovenian, Hindi, Persian, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Albanian, Armenian, Irish, Ancient Attic Greek and Modern Greek.

His list could easily be increased, for the Greek Orthodox see still exists ; it was raised in 1904 to the rank of a metropolis without suffragans, after the manner of most Greek metropolitan sees.

A monopoly ( from Greek monos μόνος ( alone or single ) + polein πωλεῖν ( to sell )) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity ( this contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or service, and with oligopoly which consists of a few entities dominating an industry ).

Evidence also exists that certain Macedonian Slavs, particularly those in the northern regions, considered themselves as Serbs el come caca and the Greek Idea predominated in southern Macedonia where it was supported by substantial part of the Slavic population.

The term panentheism ( from Greek πᾶν ( pân ) " all "; ἐν ( en ) " in "; and θεός ( theós ) " God "; " all-in-God ") was formally coined in Germany in the 19th century in an attempt to offer a philosophical synthesis between traditional theism and pantheism, stating that God is substantially omnipresent in the physical universe but also exists " apart from " or " beyond " it as its Creator and Sustainer.

Monotheism ( from Greek ) is the belief in theology that only one deity exists.

Somewhere in the shades of the centuries between the fall of the Mycenaean civilization and the end of the Greek Dark Ages, the original Mycenean religion persisted and adapted until it finally emerged in the stories of human devotion, apostasy, and divine capriciousness that exists in the two great epic poems of Homer.

This type of trilemma argument ( God is omnipotent, God is good, but Evil exists ) was one favoured by the ancient Greek skeptics, and this argument may have been wrongly attributed to Epicurus by Lactantius, who, from his Christian perspective, regarded Epicurus as an atheist.

It exists in only 24 fragments, but he apparently attempted to write a biography of the Greek nation from earliest times to the reign of Philip II.

The original Greek acts of the council are lost, but an old Latin version exists, possibly made for Vigilius, of which there is a critical edition in Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, Tome IV, vol.

Remarkable is that, even though the Etruscans imported, manufactured, and exported amphorae extensively in their wine industry, and even though other Greek vase names were Etruscanized, no Etruscan form of the word exists.

The Greek revival building still exists and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

" This myth is Greek interpretation of mystifying Minoan ritual in an attempt to reconcile their Father Zeus with the Divine Child of Crete ; the ritual itself we may never recover with clarity, but it is not impossible that a connection exists between the Kouretes ' weapons at the cave and the dedicated weapons at Arkalochori ", Emily Vermeule observed.

The original Tourtellotte Memorial High School building, which exists today as administrative offices for the school system, was built in the Greek Revival style.

Its popularity is attested by the number of languages in which it exists, each of these being represented by two or more variant " editions ": Greek ( the original ), Coptic, Armenian and Latin versions.

An important idea in ancient Greek philosophy is that " Nothing comes from nothing ", so that what exists now has always existed, since no new matter can come into existence where there was none before.

During 1964, he wrote the music for the Michael Cacoyiannis film Zorba the Greek, whose main theme, since then, exists as a trademark for Greece.

Today it exists in several traditions, including the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint 47 books ( a Greek translation widely used in the period from the 3rd century BCE to roughly the 5th century CE, and still regarded as authoritative by the Orthodox Christian churches ), the Samaritan Torah, the Westminster containing the modern 39 books, and others.

One bilingual type with Greek and Kharoshthi legends exists: it is naturally associated with the Indian Demetrius II.

Little information exists on the history of the region ; however, at different times it has remained under Persian, Greek, Mongol and Timurid dynasty rule.

These fragments are in agreement with the Greek text, which exists in three different recensions.

The quotation is believed by most modern scholars to be taken from 1 Enoch 1: 9 which exists in Greek, in Ethiopic, as part of the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, and also in Aramaic among the Dead Sea Scrolls.