The 5th-century poet Telestes doubted that virginal Athena could have been motivated by such vanity, but in the 2nd century AD, on the Acropolis of Athens itself, the voyager Pausanias saw " a statue of Athena striking Marsyas the Silenos for taking up the flutes that the goddess wished to be cast away for good.

Moreover, breast development sometimes is abnormal, manifested either as overdevelopment ( e. g. virginal breast hypertrophy ) or as underdevelopment ( e. g. tuberous breast deformity ) in girls and women ; and manifested in boys and men as gynecomastia ( woman's breasts ), the consequence of a biochemical imbalance between the normal levels of the estrogen and testosterone hormones of the male body.

The truth of this is debatable ; while the couple were both certainly childless, it is supposed that later hagiographers mistakenly construed the fact to imply a virginal marriage-this may also be seen in the case of Edward the Confessor.

" She disguises herself in virginal white robes and a veil ( much like Philia's ) to try to catch Senex being unfaithful.

The size and the shape of the breasts are influenced by normal-life hormonal changes ( thelarche, menstruation, pregnancy, menopause ) and medical conditions ( e. g. virginal breast hypertrophy ).

Does not bear inspection .” As this review states, the virginal maiden character is above inspection because her personality is flawless.

A bird that had been associated with Hera on an archaic level, where most of the Aegean goddesses were associated with " their " bird, was the cuckoo, which appears in mythic fragments concerning the first wooing of a virginal Hera by Zeus.

The virginal is a smaller and simpler rectangular form of the harpsichord having only one string per note ; the strings run parallel to the keyboard, which is on the long side of the case.

The ottavino could be removed and placed on top of the virginal, making in effect a double manual instrument.

Among the most famous composers who wrote for the harpsichord were the members of English virginal school of the late Renaissance, notably William Byrd ( ca.

* O ' Brien, Grant ( 1990 ) Ruckers, a harpsichord and virginal building tradition, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-36565-1.

** Octave virginal, Augsburg, ca.

The doctrine of the immaculate conception ( Mary being conceived free from original sin ) is not to be confused with her virginal conception of her son Jesus.

The Catholic Church teaches that Mary was not the product of a virginal conception herself and was the daughter of a human father and mother, traditionally known by the names of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne.

The feast of the Annunciation ( which commemorates the virginal conception and the Incarnation of Jesus ) is celebrated on 25 March, nine months before Christmas Day.

The same year she appeared in the Academy-Award winning Belle Epoque as the virginal Luz.

According to Silius Italicus, she was the virginal daughter of Bebryx, a king in Mediterranean Gaul by whom the hero Hercules was given hospitality during his quest to steal the cattle of Geryon during his famous Labors.

The theme is similar to the classic Music Lesson genre, and features a bass viol, virginal, and cittern ( in the woman's hand, out of frame in this detail ; see: Image: VerkoljeJan CoupleDutch1674. jpg | full image ).

Broken consorts combined a mixture of different instruments — a small band, essentially — usually comprising a gathering of social amateurs and typically including such instruments as a bass viol, a lute or orpharion ( a wire-strung lute, metal-fretted, flat-backed, and festoon-shaped ), a cittern, a treble viol ( or violin, as time progressed ), sometimes an early keyboard instrument ( virginal, spinet, or harpsichord ), and whatever other instruments or players ( or singers ) might be available at the moment.

Although his pupils included Peter Philips and Thomas Tomkins, both of whom were active as keyboard composers, the native virginal school to which he had contributed so much went into sharp decline with a number of deaths in the 1620s and never recovered.

* Brigitte Helm as both the virginal Maria and her robot double.

In these cultures, a woman may be punished, perhaps violently, if the community leaders deem that she was not virginal at the time of consummation of her marriage.

Reid found her first taste of real mainstream success when she portrayed the role of the virginal Vickie in the wildly successful American Pie ( 1999 ), which grossed over $ 100 million in US.

** Double virginal by Hans Ruckers, Antwerp, 1581

So, according to varying myths, he forced Auge to become a virginal priestess of Athena Alea, in which condition she was violated by Heracles.

The story may be the poet's invention, as seems to be the threatened rape of the virginal and venerable Vesta by the phallic god Priapus narrated later in Book 6 ( June ).

The virginal conception of Jesus by Mary is at times confused with the Roman Catholic Church teaching of her " Immaculate Conception ", namely Mary's conception by her mother and father in the normal way, but free from original sin.

Edmund Wilson's story " Galahad ," published in 1927, presents a humorous story about the attempted seduction of a virginal High School student by a debutante.

It states that Jesus was born to Mary ( Arabic: Maryam ) as the result of virginal conception, a miraculous event which occurred by the decree of God ( Arabic: Allah ).

Consequently, just as the glorious resurrection of Jesus was an essential part and the final sign of this victory, so that struggle which was common to the Blessed Virgin and her divine Son should be brought to a close by the glorification of her virginal body, for the same Apostle says: " When this mortal thing hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

She played a virginal princess kidnapped and raped by mercenaries in Flesh & Blood ( 1985 ), an innocent waitress pursued by the psychotic title character in The Hitcher ( 1986 ) ( both films pitting her opposite Rutger Hauer ), and a young woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown in Heart of Midnight ( 1989 ).

There is also the largest collection of 16th-century Elizabethan virginal manuscript music written by some of the most notable composers of the time.

Double virginal by Hans Ruckers, Antwerp, 1581.

These predate the earliest extant Mother and Child virginal by 30 years ( the 1581 Hans Ruckers ), and the earliest known double manual harpsichords by about 60 years.

Out of the some dozen so-called English " virginal books " ( see below ), only one actually bears the word in its original title: the other collections were attributed the name by music scholars in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries.

* Double virginal by Hans Ruckers, 1581

* Double virginal by Ludovicus Growelus, ca.

* Muselar virginal by Jan Ruckers, 1622

Marian's role was not entirely virginal in the early days ; in 1592, Thomas Nashe described the Marian of the later May Games as being played by a male actor named Martin, and there are hints in the play of Robin Hood and the Friar that the female character in these plays had become a lewd parody.

Bhattacharya further comments on the sequence of her requests: the bodily fragrance to make the sexual act pleasant for both, the veil of mist to keep the act a secret, virginal status for her future and fame for her child-securing his fame and, after practical aspects are sorted out, " eternally feminine " boons of lifelong youth and fragrance.

These melodramatic tableaux include a nun in " extremely sorrowful prayer " experiencing " saintly transports of virginal purity "; a mother feeling both pain and joy while leaning over a child's crib ; a bare-shouldered coquette looking at once offended, haughty and mocking ; and three scenes from Lady Macbeth expressing the " aggressive and wicked passions of hatred, of jealousy, of cruel instincts ," modulated to varying degrees of contrary feelings of filial piety.