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Athenaïs (mythology)
Athenais is an Ancient Greek feminine given name which refers to the Greek goddess Athena. Athénaïs is a more recent French variant. Notable people with these names include: * Athenais (seer), 4th-century BC prophetess who told Alexander the Great of his allegedly divine descent * Athenais Philostorgos I (), Queen of Cappadocia * Athenais Philostorgos II (), princess from the Kingdom of Pontus and through marriage a Roman client queen of Cappadocia * Athenais of Media Atropatene (), princess from the Kingdom of Commagene and wife of Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene * Athenais (daughter of Herodes Atticus) (141–161), noblewoman who lived in the Roman Empire * Athenais (great-granddaughter of Herodes Atticus), Roman noblewoman who lived between the second half of the 2nd century and first half of the 3rd century * Aelia Eudocia (c. 401–460), birth name Athenais, wife of Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II * Athénaïs Michelet (1826–1899), French natural history writer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek Dark Ages, Dark Ages (), the Archaic Greece, Archaic or Homeric Greek, Homeric period (), and the Classical Greece, Classical period (). Ancient Greek was the language of Homer and of fifth-century Athens, fifth-century Athenian historians, playwrights, and Ancient Greek philosophy, philosophers. It has contributed many words to English vocabulary and has been a standard subject of study in educational institutions of the Western world since the Renaissance. This article primarily contains information about the Homeric Greek, Epic and Classical periods of the language, which are the best-attested periods and considered most typical of Ancient Greek. From the Hellenistic period (), Ancient Greek was followed by Koine Greek, which is regar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athena
Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretism, syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens, from which she most likely received her name. The Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens is dedicated to her. Her major symbols include Owl of Athena, owls, olive trees, snakes, and the Gorgoneion. In art, she is generally depicted wearing a helmet and holding a spear. From her origin as an Aegean tutelary deity, palace goddess, Athena was closely associated with the city. She was known as ''Polias'' and ''Poliouchos'' (both derived from ''polis'', meaning "city-state"), and her temples were usually located atop the fortified acropolis in the central part of the city. The Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis is dedicated to her, along with numero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athenais (seer)
Athenais () was a prophetess from Erythrae in Ionia, Asia Minor. She lived at the time of Alexander the Great. According to Strabo, Athenais was one of the oracles which claimed divine descent for Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon (; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip ....Strabo, 17.1.43 References Seers of Alexander the Great 4th-century BC Greek women 4th-century BC clergy Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Female religious leaders {{AncientGreece-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athenais Philostorgos I
Athenais Philostorgos I, her surname can be spelt as Philostorgus (, meaning ''Athenais the loving one'', flourished 1st century BC) was a Queen of Cappadocia. Athenais was a Greek noblewoman of obscure origins. She was the wife of the Cappadocian Persian nobleman and King Ariobarzanes I Philoromaios and through her marriage became a Queen of Cappadocia. Ariobarzanes I reigned as King of Cappadocia from 95 to 63/62 BC. It appears when Ariobarzanes I reigned as King he married Athenais as his Queen. Little is known on how she reigned as Queen and her relationship with her family. Athenais bore Ariobarzanes I two children: a son Ariobarzanes II Philopator who later succeeded his father as King and a daughter, Isias Philostorgos who later married the King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene. Athenais is also known through a surviving honorific inscription dedicated to her son in Athens, Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athenais Philostorgos II
Athenais Philostorgos II (Greek: ''η Άθηναἷς Φιλόστοργος Β''), also known as Athenais Philostorgus II or Athenais of Pontus, was a princess of the Kingdom of Pontus, and queen of Cappadocia by marriage to King Ariobarzanes II Philopator. Her name in Greek translates to "Athenais the loving one". Life The child of King Mithridates VI of Pontus from his second marriage to the Anatolian Greek Macedonian noblewoman and Pontian Queen Monime, she was a princess of Persian and Greek Macedonian ancestry. Born and raised in the Kingdom of Pontos, her parents gave her a traditional ancient Greek name. Athenais married the Cappadocian Prince and later King Ariobarzanes II Philopator, who was of Persian and Greek descent. Queen consort Ariobarzanes II succeeded his father as King in 63 BC-62 BC, when his father Ariobarzanes I Philoromaios abdicated his throne. When Ariobarzanes II became king, Athenais became Cappadocian queen, inheriting the honorific ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artavasdes I Of Media Atropatene
Artavasdes is the Hellenized form of the Iranian name . Variant renderings in Greek include (), (), and (); in Armenian (); and in Latin or . Artavasdes' name is the Latin attestation of an Old Iranian name *Ṛtavazdah-, identical to the Avestan Ašavazdah, presumably meaning "powerful/persevering through truth" People with this name include: Persian satraps * Artabazos I of Phrygia (flourished 5th century BC) * Artabazos II of Phrygia (flourished 4th century BC) Kings and emperors Media Atropatene * Artabazanes (flourished 3rd century BC), King of Media Atropatene * Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene (flourished 1st century BC), King of Media Atropatene and Sophene * Artavasdes I, King of Media Atropatene and Armenia from AD 4 to 6, also known as Artavasdes III of Armenia Armenia * Artavasdes I (died 115 BC), King of Armenia * Artavasdes II (died 31 BC), King of Armenia 53 BC to 34 BC * Artavasdes III, King of Armenia and Media Atropatene from AD 4 to 6, also kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athenais (daughter Of Herodes Atticus)
Marcia Annia Claudia Alcia Athenais Gavidia Latiaria,Pomeroy, ''The murder of Regilla: a case of domestic violence in antiquity'' () otherwise most commonly known as Athenais ()Graindor, ''Un milliardaire antique'' p. 29 (c. 143-161) was a Roman noblewoman of Greeks, Greek Athenian and Italia (Roman Empire), Italian Roman descent who lived in the Roman Empire. Ancestry and Family Athenais was born to a distinguished and very rich family of consular rank. She was the second daughter of the Athenian Roman Senate, Roman Senator, Sophism, Sophist Herodes Atticus and the Roman highly aristocratic, influential noblewoman Aspasia Annia Regilla. The paternal grandparents of Athenais were the Roman Senator Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes (suffect consul 132), Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes and the wealthy heiress Vibullia Alcia Agrippina, while her maternal grandparents were the Roman Senator, Consul Appius Annius Trebonius Gallus (consul 139), Appius Annius Trebonius Gallus and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athenais (great-granddaughter Of Herodes Atticus)
Athenais ()Graindor, ''Un milliardaire antique'' p. 29 was a Roman noblewoman of Greek Athenian and Italian Roman descent. Athenais lived between the second half of the 2nd century and first half of the 3rd century in the Roman Empire. Athenais was the daughter of the Athenian Aristocrat Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus and his wife, whose name is unknown. Her paternal half uncle was Lucius Vibullius Claudius Herodes. Her paternal grandparents was the Aristocrat Lucius Vibullius Rufus and noblewoman Athenais. Athenais was named in honor of her late paternal grandmother. Her paternal grandparents were paternal second cousins. Through her paternal grandmother, Athenais was a great granddaughter of the Sophist Herodes Atticus and Roman aristocratic noblewoman Aspasia Annia Regilla and through her paternal grandfather she was a great granddaughter of Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus who served as an Archon of Athens in 143–144. Herodes Atticus and Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus were first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aelia Eudocia
Aelia Eudocia Augusta (; ; 460 AD), also called Saint Eudocia, was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to Emperor Theodosius II (). Daughter of an Athenian philosopher, she was also a poet, whose works include ''Homerocentones'', or Homeric retellings of Biblical stories. After an estrangement with Theodosius, she permanently settled in Jerusalem, where she supported the local population. Early life Aelia Eudocia was born with the name Athenaïs in Athens. The 6th century chronicler John Malalas describes her as Greek. Her exact year of birth is not known, but it is often given as 400 or 401 on the assumption that she was born around the same time of Emperor Theodosius II (401 AD). She was said to be of pagan background, and according to her contemporary Socrates Scholasticus, she was baptized shortly before her marriage to Theodosius. Her father, an Athenian sophist named Leontius, taught rhetoric at the Academy of Athens, where people from all over the Mediterranean came t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athénaïs Michelet
Athénaïs Michelet (1826–1899), née Mialaret, was a French natural history writer and memoirist. She wrote independently and in collaboration with her husband, Jules Michelet. Marriage and literary collaboration While tutoring the children of the Princess Cantacuzène in Vienna, Athénaïs first encountered Jules Michelet through his literary work. She had written to him after reading ''Du prêtre, de la femme et de la famille''. They began a correspondence that ensued for years and they became engaged before meeting. They married in 1849, ten years after the death of his first wife. Their mutual literary interests remained the basis of their relationship even after their marriage. She and her husband entered into a shared literary life, collaborating on ''L'Oiseau'' (1856), ''L'Insecte'' (1857), ''La Mer'' (1861), and ''La Montagne'' (1868). Although these books were published only under Jules Michelet's name, he explicitly credited Athénaïs, not only for turning his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise De Montespan
Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly known as Madame de Montespan (), was a French noblewoman and the most celebrated royal mistress of King Louis XIV. During their romantic relationship, which lasted from the late 1660s to the late 1670s, she was sometimes referred to by contemporaries as the "true Queen of France" due to the pervasiveness of her influence at court.Lisa Hilton, ''Athénaïs: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress – the Real Queen of France'', Little, Brown 2002, 4. She was a great-grandmother to Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, who was the husband to Maria Luisa of Savoy, also known as the Princesse de Lamballe. Born into the House of Rochechouart, one of the oldest noble families of France, Françoise-Athénaïs married the Marquis of Montespan in 1663. She then became a maid of honour to Princess Henrietta, Duchess of Orléans, and later a lady-in-waiting to Queen Maria Theres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminine Given Names
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or Gentile name, ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
