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Leucothoe Uschakovi
In Greek mythology, Leucothoe (Ancient Greek: Λευκοθόη) may refer to the following figures: * Leucothoe, the Nereids, Nereid of the sea's brine and one of the fifty marine-nymph daughters of the Old Man of the Sea Nereus and the Oceanids, Oceanid Doris (Oceanid), Doris. *Leucothea or Leucothoe, name of Ino (Greek mythology), Ino after becoming a sea-deity. * Leucothoe (daughter of Orchamus), Leucothoe, a daughter of Orchamus loved by Helios.Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' 4.190 ff. Other uses * Leucothoe (plant), ''Leucothoe'' (plant), a genus in the family Ericaceae * Leucothoe (crustacean), ''Leucothoe'' (crustacean), a genus of amphipod crustaceans * ''Leucothoé'', an early work by the Irish playwright Isaac Bickerstaffe * Leucothoe (poem), a poem by Giovanni Pascoli Notes References * Gaius Julius Hyginus, ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic StudiesOnline version at the Topos Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories concern the ancient Greek religion's view of the Cosmogony, origin and Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, nature of the world; the lives and activities of List of Greek deities, deities, Greek hero cult, heroes, and List of Greek mythological creatures, mythological creatures; and the origins and significance of the ancient Greeks' cult (religious practice), cult and ritual practices. Modern scholars study the myths to shed light on the religious and political institutions of ancient Greece, and to better understand the nature of mythmaking itself. The Greek myths were initially propagated in an oral tradition, oral-poetic tradition most likely by Minoan civilization, Minoan and Mycenaean Greece, Mycenaean singers starting in the 18th century&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Propertius
Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium (now Assisi) and died shortly after 15 BC. Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of '' Elegies'' ('). He was a friend of the poets Gallus and Virgil and, with them, had as his patron Maecenas and, through Maecenas, the emperor Augustus. Although Propertius was not as renowned in his own time as other Latin elegists, he is today regarded by scholars as a major poet. Life Very little information exists about Propertius outside of his own writing. His praenomen "Sextus" is mentioned by Aelius Donatus, a few manuscripts list him as "Sextus Propertius", but the rest of his name is unknown. From numerous references in his poetry it is clear he was born and raised in Umbria, of a well-to-do family at or near Asisium (Assisi). His birthplace is generally regarded as modern Assisi, where tourists can view the excavated remains of a house thought to have belonged at l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loeb Classical Library
The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; , ) is a monographic series of books originally published by Heinemann and since 1934 by Harvard University Press. It has bilingual editions of ancient Greek and Latin literature, with the original Greek or Latin text on the left-hand page and a fairly literal translation on the facing page. History Under the inspiration drawn from the book series specializing in publishing classical texts exclusively in the original languages, such as the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849 or the Oxford Classical Texts book series, founded in 1894, the Loeb Classical Library was conceived and initially funded by the Jewish-German-American banker and philanthropist James Loeb (1867–1933). The first volumes were edited by Thomas Ethelbert Page, W. H. D. Rouse, and Edward Capps, and published by William Heinemann, Ltd. (London) in 1912, already in their distinctive green (for Greek text) and red (for Latin) hardco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaius Julius Hyginus
Gaius Julius Hyginus (; 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Augustus, and reputed author of the '' Fabulae'' and the '' De astronomia'', although this is disputed. Life and works Hyginus may have originated either from Spain, or from the Egyptian city of Alexandria. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' ''De Grammaticis'', 20. Suetonius remarks that Hyginus fell into great poverty in his old age and was supported by the historian Clodius Licinus. Hyginus was a voluminous author: his works included topographical and biographical treatises, commentaries on Helvius Cinna and the poems of Virgil, and disquisitions on agriculture and bee-keeping. All these are lost. Attributed works Two Latin works which have survived under the name of Hyginus are a mythological handbook, known as the ''Genealogiae'' or the '' Fabulae'', and an astronomical work, entitled '' D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo Caressing The Nymph Leucothea - Antoine Boizot
Apollo is one of the Twelve Olympians, Olympian deities in Ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek and Ancient Roman religion, Roman religion and Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. He is considered to be the most beautiful god and is represented as the ideal of the ''kouros'' (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth). Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as ''Apulu''. As the patron deity of Delphi (''Apollo Pythios''), Apollo is an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Pythia, Delphic Oracle and also the deity of ritual purification. His oracles were often consulted for guidance in various matters. He was in general seen as the god who affords help and wards off e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Pascoli
Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli (; 31 December 1855 – 6 April 1912) was an Italian poet, classical scholar and an emblematic figure of Italian literature in the late nineteenth century. Alongside Gabriele D'Annunzio, he was one of the greatest Italian decadent poets. The first publication of "Il Fanciullino" in 1897 reveals an intimate and introspective understanding of poetic sentiment. It emphasizes the importance of the particular and the everyday, while also evoking a childlike, almost primal dimension. According to Pascoli, only the poet can articulate the 'childishness' inherent in everyone. This notion enables him to assume the somewhat anachronistic role of a poet-vate and to reaffirm poetry's moral (particularly its consolatory) and civic value. Although he did not actively participate in any literary movement of the time nor show any particular inclination towards contemporary European poetry (unlike Gabriele D'Annunzio), he manifested predominantly spiritualist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leucothoe (poem)
''Leucothoe'' is a 1883 poem in Latin by Giovanni Pascoli, rediscovered and published in 2012. The work takes the form of a mythological and erotic epyllion of 144 verses. Editorial history Pascoli composed the poem in 1883 when, in financial difficulties, he heard about the Certamen poeticum Hoeufftianum, a prize awarded annually by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. He sent the composition, however, without knowing the rules of the competition, nor did he include his name, so he received no news from the academy and the work was lost in the Dutch archives. In 2012, the philologist Vincenzo Fera tracked down the poem at the Noord-Hollands Archief in Haarlem, finding the original text in its entirety, on three sheets of paper handwritten by the author, and published it in December 2012. Title The name of the protagonist, Leucothoe, does not seem to draw so much from Ovid's Leucothoe as from the myth of the goddess Leucothea. Contents Leucothoe is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leucothoé
''Leucothoé'' is a 1756 dramatic poem by the Irish playwright Isaac Bickerstaff. It was Bickerstaff's first published work. The plot was based on the story of the Greek Goddess Leucothea. ''Leucothoé'' was originally intended to be a pastoral opera but Bickerstaff was unable to secure a composer to set it to music. In May 1756 it was published by Robert Dodsley at the price of 1 shilling and sixpence. In a contemporary review in the ''Monthly Review'', critic Ralph Griffiths generally praised the work, although he criticised the tragic ending, as "the laws of the Opera require a happy ending".Tasch p.29 While well received by the limited critics who reviewed it, the work was largely ignored both by critics and the public. This failure led Bickerstaff to rejoin the military, although he went on to have a string of successes between 1760 and 1772 often in collaboration with the composer Thomas Arne Thomas Augustine Arne (; 12 March 17105 March 1778) was an English composer. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leucothoe (crustacean)
''Leucothoe'' is a genus of Amphipoda, amphipods in the Family (biology), family Leucothoidae. It contains the following species: *''Leucothoe acanthopus'' Schellenberg, 1928 *''Leucothoe acutilobata'' Ledoyer, 1978 *''Leucothoe adelphe'' White & Thomas, 2009 *''Leucothoe affinis'' Stimpson, 1856 *''Leucothoe alata'' J. L. Barnard, 1959 *''Leucothoe alcyone'' Imbach, 1967 *''Leucothoe angusticoxa'' (Ledoyer, 1972) *''Leucothoe ashleyae'' Thomas & Klebba, 2006 *''Leucothoe assimilis'' J. L. Barnard, 1974 *''Leucothoe atosi'' Bellan-Santini, 2007 *''Leucothoe ayrtonia'' Bellan-Santini, 1997 *''Leucothoe barana'' Thomas & Klebba, 2007 *''Leucothoe basilobata'' Serejo, 1998 *''Leucothoe bidens'' Hirayama, 1985 *''Leucothoe boolpooli'' J. L. Barnard, 1974 *''Leucothoe bova'' White & Thomas, 2009 *''Leucothoe brevidigitata'' Miers, 1884 *''Leucothoe brunonis'' Krapp-Schickel & Menioui, 2005 *''Leucothoe campi'' Mateus & Mateus, 1986 *''Leucothoe cheiriserra'' Serejo, 1998 *''Leucothoe c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leucothoe (plant)
''Leucothoe'' is a genus of about 6 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to Asia and the Americas. Many species have the common name doghobble. ''Leucothoe'' species contain grayanotoxins, a group of closely related neurotoxins named after ''Leucothoe grayana'', native to Japan. They are shrubs growing to 1–3 m tall, either deciduous or evergreen depending on species. The leaves are alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 2–15 cm long. The flowers are produced in racemes 3–15 cm long, each flower bell-shaped, 4–20 mm long, white or occasionally pink. ;Selected species *'' Leucothoe axillaris'' (coastal doghobble; southeastern United States) *'' Leucothoe davisiae'' (black laurel; Sierra Nevada, northern California & Oregon) *'' Leucothoe fontanesiana'' (highland doghobble or drooping leucothoe; southeastern United States) *'' Leucothoe grayana'' (Japan) *'' Leucothoe griffithiana'' (eastern Himalaya, southwest China) *'' Leucothoe keiskei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helios
In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, Helios (; ; Homeric Greek: ) is the god who personification, personifies the Sun. His name is also Latinized as Helius, and he is often given the epithets Hyperion ("the one above") and Phaethon ("the shining"). Helios is often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky. He was a guardian of oaths and also the god of sight. Though Helios was a relatively minor deity in Classical Greece, his worship grew more prominent in late antiquity thanks to his identification with several major solar divinities of the Roman period, particularly Apollo and Sol (Roman mythology), Sol. The Roman Emperor Julian (emperor), Julian made Helios the central divinity of his short-lived revival of Religion in ancient Rome, traditional Roman religious practices in the 4th century AD. Helios figures prominently in several works of Greek mythology, poetry, and literature, in which he is often described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orchamus
In Ovid's, ''Metamorphoses'', Orchamus (Ancient Greek: Ορχάμος) was a king of Persia ("in the land of spices"). Family Orchamus was the seventh in line from Belus and the father of Leucothoe who was a lover of Helios the Sun. Mythology Helios disguised himself as Leucothoe's mother, Eurynome, to gain entrance to her chambers. Clytia, a previous lover of Helios, consumed with jealousy, told Orchamus of his daughter's affair. So Orchamus, "fierce and merciless" buried Leucothoe alive. She died before Helios could save her, and he turned her into a frankincense tree. Clytia, scorned by Helios, sat on the ground pining away, neither eating nor drinking, constantly turning her face toward the Sun, until finally she became the heliotrope, whose flowers follow the Sun across the sky every day.Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'4.192–270/ref> Notes References * Gantz, Timothy, ''Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
