Artapanus of Alexandria explicitly identified Moses not only with Thoth / Hermes, but also with the Greek figure Musaeus ( whom he calls " the teacher of Orpheus "), and ascribed to him the division of Egypt into 36 districts, each with its own liturgy.

He probably would have remained a well-respected but minor jazz figure had he not written an original number to fill out his covers of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Luis Bonfá tunes on his 1962 album, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, inspired by the French / Brazilian film Black Orpheus, which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

* Orpheus was a mythological figure described as a chief among poets and musicians, king of the Thracian tribe of Cicones.

Such paths figure prominently in mythology ( examples including Orpheus ' trip into the Underworld and Rip van Winkle's apparent stroll into a fae celebration ).

Orpheus was a legendary figure in Greek mythology, chief among poets and musicians.

The parade is named after Orpheus, a figure from Greek mythology, as an illustration of the power of music.

For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

It is a Whig history of the `` Tory reaction '' which preceded the Reform Bill of 1832, and it uses the figure of Grey to give some unity to the narrative.

For the figure of Vincent Berger Malraux has obviously drawn on his studies of T. E. Lawrence ( though Berger fights on the side of the Turks instead of against them ), and like both Lawrence and Malraux himself he is a fervent admirer of Nietzsche.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

The national average is more than $4 and that figure is considered by experts in the mental health field to be too low.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

Some government scientists say privately that the figure probably is closer to 80 megatons, and that the full 50-megaton bomb that Khrushchev mentioned may still be detonated.

Based on this figure and considering depreciation costs of vehicles, pool personnel have determined that travel in excess of 10,000 miles annually is more economical by state car than by payment of allowances for use of personally-owned vehicles.

The ideal girl -- possessed of talent, poise, intelligence, personality and beauty of face and figure -- is chosen each year to represent Rhode Island.

The shelter illustrated in figure 12 is based on such a room built in a new home in the Washington, D.C. area in the Spring of 1959.

Next to it is a copper section, with cooking utensils and a figure of the chief cook in an elaborate, floor-length robe.

The figure five is important in insurance.

This result is plotted along with the 8.6-mm observations of Gibson ( 1958 ) in figure 1, A.

Another anode holder used in the experiments is shown in figure 3.

The best way to determine the correct figure ( in captives ) is by direct observation of pairs isolated from birth, a method that produced surprising results: maturing of a male Indian python in less than two years, his mate in less than three ; ;

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

This expectation is what really `` sold '' point and figure.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

Or, he might remind Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonishingly low: after all, the medieval guild system was dedicated to the proposition that 100 per cent of the workers ought to turn out only the average amount ; ;

After all, the henpecked husband with his shrewish wife is a comic figure of long standing, in literature and on the stage, as Dr. Schillinger points out.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

During the past four hundred years, Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American myth and folklore, symbolizing different things to different groups of people.

His adventurous life, his forcible character, the position of his state as a barrier between the Indian and the Russian empires, and the skill with which he held the balance in dealing with them, combined to make him a prominent figure in contemporary Asian politics and will mark his reign as an epoch in the history of Afghanistan.

Assassination is the murder of a prominent person or political figure by a surprise attack, usually for payment or political reasons.

When Attlee died, his estate was sworn for probate purposes at a value of £ 7, 295, a relatively modest sum for so prominent a figure.

In this line of interpretation, Cernach is taken as an epithet with a wide semantic field — " angular ; victorious ; bearing a prominent growth " — and Conall is seen as " the same figure " as the ancient Cernunnos.

" A prominent figure in the sceptical philosophical tradition and a strong empiricist, he argued against the existence of innate ideas, concluding instead that humans have knowledge only of things they directly experience.

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich ( 25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975 ) was a Soviet Russian composer and pianist and a prominent figure of 20th century music.

Bassist Domenico Dragonetti was a prominent musical figure and an acquaintance of Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Heterosexual feminist leader Helene Stöcker became a prominent figure in the movement.

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

René Thom was another prominent figure in its early history.

Liebknecht, a founder and leader of the German Social-Democratic Party, gave a speech in German, and Longuet, a prominent figure in the French working-class movement, made a short statement in French.

Another prominent figure in German air power construction this time was Helmuth Wilberg.

Mabon ap Modron is a prominent figure from Welsh literature and mythology, the son of Modron and a member of Arthur's war band.

Hamid Karzai, a prominent figure from the Popalzai clan, became the president of Afghanistan and Zahir Shah's relatives and supporters were provided with key posts in the transitional government.

Njörðr has been the subject of an amount of scholarly discourse and theory, often connecting him with the figure of the much earlier attested Germanic goddess Nerthus, the hero Hadingus, and theorizing on his formerly more prominent place in Norse paganism due to the appearance of his name in numerous place names.

Most ore deposits are named according to either their location ( for example, the Witswatersrand, South Africa ), or after a discoverer ( e. g. the kambalda nickel shoots are named after drillers ), or after some whimsy, a historical figure, a prominent person, something from mythology ( phoenix, kraken, serepentleopard, etc.

Another important figure in the Prague School was Roman Jakobson, who was one of the most prominent linguists of the 20th century.

) The film shows what Patterson and Gimlin claimed was a large, hairy bipedal apelike figure with short black hair covering most of its body, including the figure's prominent breasts.

Cleon was a major political figure of the time and through the actions of the characters about which he writes Aristophanes is able to freely criticize the actions of this prominent politician in public and through his comedy.

As such, Saladin is a prominent figure in Kurdish, Arab, and Muslim culture.

The Khan of Sibir in the vicinity of modern Tobolsk was known as a prominent figure who endorsed Kubrat as Khagan in Avaria in 630.

The refusal of prominent baseball figure Cap Anson to play the Toledo team, in an exhibition game with his Chicago White Stockings, accelerated the drawing of the color line.