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The Telegony ( Τηλεγόνεια ), an epic now lost, relates the later history of the last of these.
Many Roman writers seem to have composed epigrams, including Domitius Marsus, whose collection Cicuta ( now lost ) was named after the poisonous plant Cicuta for its biting wit, and Lucan, more famous for his epic Pharsalia.
It is unclear if part of the epic poem has been lost, or if it was never finished.
She draws comparisons with Thetis ' role in another work of the epic Cycle concerning Troy, the lost Aethiopis, which presents a strikingly similar relationship — that of the divine Dawn, Eos, with her slain son Memnon ; she supplements the parallels with images from the repertory of archaic vase-painters, where Eros and Thetis flank the symmetrically opposed heroes with a theme that may have been derived from traditional epic songs.
Though the early literary presentations of Medea are lost, Apollonius of Rhodes, in a redefinition of epic formulas, and Euripides, in a dramatic version for a specifically Athenian audience, each employed the figure of Medea ; Seneca offered yet another tragic Medea, of witchcraft and potions, and Ovid rendered her portrait three times for a sophisticated and sceptical audience in Imperial Rome.
When the Battle of Attu was lost, attempts were made to make the more than two thousand Japanese deaths an inspirational epic for the fighting spirit of the nation.
A single early appearance of Zagreus is in a quoted line from the lost epic Alkmeonis, written in the sixth century BC if not earlier: " Mistress Earth and Zagreus who art above all other gods.
Proclus, who summarized the lost epic, the Aethiopis of Arctinos of Miletus, of which only five lines survive in a quotation, gave the events of Penthesilea's life.
A lost epic, Titanomachia, attributed to the blind Thracian bard Thamyris, himself a legendary figure, was mentioned in passing in an essay On Music that was once attributed to Plutarch.
The epic poem Alcmeonis as well as the Alcmaeon of Sophocles, and those of Agathon and Achaeus, have all been lost.
Some very early Greek sources in the Epic Cycle affirmed that Artemis rescued Iphigenia from the human sacrifice her father was about to perform, for instance in the lost epic Cypria, which survives in a summary by Proclus: " Artemis, however, snatched her away and transported her to the Tauroi, making her immortal, and put a stag in place of the girl upon the altar.
Several prose and poetic works, now lost, were attributed to Epimenides, including a theogony, an epic poem on the Argonautic expedition, prose works on purifications and sacrifices, a cosmogony, oracles, a work on the laws of Crete, and a treatise on Minos and Rhadymanthus.
The recall of Philoctetes is told in the lost epic Little Iliad, where his retrieval was accomplished by Odysseus and Diomedes.
A lost epic attributed to Thamyris, Titanomachy, was mentioned in passing in the essay " On Music " that was once believed to be authored by Plutarch.
However, a quotation from another lost epic in the Trojan cycle, the Aethiopis, gives his father's name as Agrius.
In Iceland, the tales of the Völsung cycle were expanded with native Scandinavian folklore, including that of Helgi Hundingsbane, which originally appears to have been part of a separate tradition, that of the Ylfings, and form the material of the epic poems in the Elder Edda and of Völsunga saga, which preserves material from lost poems.
Ludovico Ariosto, in his epic Orlando Furioso ( 1513 ), jestingly sent his hero to a Moon where everything lost on Earth eventually turns up ; but it was not until Galileo discovered ( 1609 – 1610 ) that the Moon had surface features, and that the other planets could, at least, be resolved into disks, that the concept that the planets were real physical bodies came to be taken seriously.
The rendering of Blind Willie McTell's " Statesboro Blues " was a straight-ahead opener, the powerful " Whipping Post " ( with its famous 11 / 4 bass opening ) became the standard for an epic jam that never lost interest, while the ethereal-to-furious " In Memory of Elizabeth Reed " invited comparisons to John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
He is to be distinguished from Antimachus of Teos, a much earlier poet to whom the lost Cyclic epic Epigoni was apparently ascribed ( though the attribution may result from confusion ).
Among his lost works, Heteroeumena was a mythological epic, used by Ovid in the Metamorphoses and epitomized by Antoninus Liberalis ; Georgica, of which considerable fragments survive, was perhaps imitated by Virgil.
The lost Irish epic Orgain Sratha Cluada is usually thought to refer to the attack on Alt Clut in 870 by Vikings, but MacQuarrie suggests that it may refer to an attack by Áedán on Rhydderch.
" Whipping Post " became the standard for a long, epic jam that never lost interest ( opening in 11 / 4 time, unusual territory for a rock band ), while the ethereal-to-furious " In Memory of Elizabeth Reed ", with its harmonized melody, Latin feel, and burning drive invited comparisons with John Coltrane ( especially Duane's solo-ending pull-offs, a direct nod to the jazz saxophonist ).
The impetus for the novel, as Fielding claims in the preface, is the establishment of a genre of writing " which I do not remember to have been hitherto attempted in our language ", defined as the " comic epic-poem in prose ": a work of prose fiction, epic in length and variety of incident and character, in the hypothetical spirit of Homer ’ s lost ( and possibly apocryphal ) comic poem Margites.

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Sections of translations of spiritual writings in Dartford's library, such as Suso's Little Book of Eternal Wisdom and Laurent du Bois ' La Somme le Roi, show that the " ghoostli " link to Europe was not lost in the crossing of the Channel.
In the 1960s, black civil rights campaigner Malcolm X ( né Malcolm Little ) took the " X " to represent his unknown African ancestral name that was lost when his ancestors were brought to North America as slaves, and then changed his name again to Malik El-Shabazz when he converted to Islam.
The night of gambling ends with Champ having lost Little Champ, which devastates Dink.
May Robson was nominated Best Actress but lost to Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory, and Robert Riskin lost the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay to Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman for Little Women.
When Boston lost a number of games due to bullpen failures, Little reverted to a traditional closer approach and moved Byung-Hyun Kim from being a starting pitcher to a closer.
Often, as in Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town or Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief, the simplicity of rural living is lost in the city.
In " Stop or My Dog Will Shoot " ( season 18, 2007 ), Santa's Little Helper becomes a local hero after finding a lost Homer, and the Simpsons decide to enroll him in the Animal Police Academy.
In act 4, scene 14, “ an un-Romaned Antony ” laments, “ O, thy vile lady !/ She has robb'd me of my sword ,” ( 22-23 )— critic Arthur L. Little Jr. writes that here “ he seems to echo closely the victim of raptus, of bride theft, who has lost the sword she wishes to turn against herself.
Lyle R. Wheeler, Leland Fuller, and Thomas Little were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Black-and-White Art Direction and Interior Decoration but lost to Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Paul Huldschinsky, and Edwin B. Willis for Gaslight.
This lithograph of Little Turtle is reputedly based upon a lost portrait by Gilbert Stuart, destroyed when the British Burning of Washington | burned Washington, D. C. in 1814.
While Little Turtle and Blue Jacket fielded more than 1, 000 warriors, they lost only 40 .< ref >
In 1994, the Northridge Little League Baseball team won the United States Little League Championship game, but lost the World Series game to the international team from Zulia-Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Other semi-regulars were future Stooge Joe Besser as Stinky, a 40-year-old sissy dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit, and Gordon Jones as Mike the cop, who always lost patience with Lou.
Council Rock Northampton Little League made it to the 2007 Mid-Atlantic Regional Finals, where they lost 4-0 to Salisbury, Maryland.
In the summer of 2010, the combined team of two schools, ( Blue Ridge Middle School, and Greer Middle ) the 11 – 12 year old Little League softball team went to the regional tournament in Warner Robins, Georgia, but lost the first two games and was eliminated.
His most significant and influential works are based Greek and world poetry – Epiphania ( Giorgos Seferis ), Little Kyklades ( Odysseas Elytis ), Axion Esti ( Odysseas Elytis ), Mauthausen ( Iakovos Kambanellis ), Romiossini ( Yannis Ritsos ), and Romancero Gitano ( Federico García Lorca ) – he attempted to give back to Greek music a dignity which in his perception it had lost.
There are, close to the village, three lost settlements and one small hamlet called Little Braunston.
" Equally memorable was a line in the 1940 film My Little Chickadee: " Once, on a trek through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew ... and were forced to live on food and water for several days!
Little is known of Law's wife, as most of her letters have been lost.
He lost to former or future world champions Enrique Pinder, Bobby Chacon, and Danny " Little Red " Lopez.
( By 1984, Fleet Little Pond had lost its ecological interest and The Flash and been filled in.

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