Encyclopedia - Agamemnon: Encyclopedia - Agamemnon
Agamémnon (Greek: Αγαμέμνων) ("very resolute"), one of the most distinguished heroes of Greek mythology, was the son of King At...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agamemnon: Encyclopedia Ii - Agamemnon - The Trojan War
Agamemnon gathered together the Greek forces to sail for Troy. Preparing to depart from Aulis, a port in Boeotia, Agamemnon's army incurr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agamemnon: Encyclopedia Ii - Agamemnon - Other Stories
Another account makes him the son of Pleisthenes (the son or father of Atreus), who is said to have been Aerope's first husband. The fort...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia Ii - The Oresteia - Agamemnon
The Oresteia - Introduction. Agamemnon details the return of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War to his death. Waiting at hom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia - The Oresteia
The Oresteia is a trilogy of tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, written by Aeschylus. It is the only surviving ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artemis: Encyclopedia - Artemis
In Greek mythology Artemis (World Book «AHR tuh mihs») (Greek Άρτεμις) is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chryseis: Encyclopedia - Chryseis
In Greek mythology, Chryseis (Greek: Χρύσηίς, Khrysēís) was a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses. Her real name was Astynome;...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chrysothemis: Encyclopedia - Chrysothemis
In Greek mythology, Chrysothemis was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Unlike her sister, Electra, Chrysothemis did not protest o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electra: Encyclopedia - Electra
In Greek mythology, several persons were named Electra (also spelled Elektra): Daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, mother of Dardanus, Iasio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chryses: Encyclopedia - Chryses
In Greek mythology, Chryses (Greek: Χρύσης, Khrýsēs) was a priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy. He and Briseus (fat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atreidae: Encyclopedia - Atreidae
In Greek mythology, the Atreidae, or Atreidai, refer to Agamemnon and Menelaus, sons of Atreus— in English, the Atreides. The term is a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antiphus: Encyclopedia - Antiphus
In Greek mythology, one of these people: In the Iliad, Antiphus, or Ántiphos, a Trojan ally, the son of Talaemenes and a nymph. During ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calchis: Encyclopedia - Calchis
In Greek mythology, Calchis was an oracle who told Agamemnon that he had angered Artemis and needed to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achaeans: Encyclopedia - Achaeans
The Achaeans (also Akhaians, Greek Αχαιοί) is the collective name given to the Greek forces in Homer's Iliad. An alternative name, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clytemnestra: Encyclopedia - Clytemnestra
Clytemnestra (Greek: Κλυταιμνήστρα Klytaimnéstra, "praiseworthy wooing") was the wife of Agamemnon, king of the Ancient Gre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Briseis: Encyclopedia - Briseis
In Greek mythology, Brisēis (Greek Βρισηίς) was a Trojan widow (from Lyrnessus) who was abducted during the Trojan War by Achille...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calchas: Encyclopedia - Calchas
In Greek mythology, Kalkhas Thestórides, or Calchas ("brazen") for short, was a powerful prophet. He told the Greeks that Achilles was n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anius: Encyclopedia - Anius
In Greek mythology, Anius was the son of Apollo and Rhoeo. Anius was born on the island of Delos, which was sacred to his father Apollo, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menelaus: Encyclopedia - Menelaus
This article is about Menelaus the king of Sparta. For the mathematician and astronomer, see Menelaus of Alexandria. Menelaus (also tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Woollgar Verrall: Encyclopedia - Arthur Woollgar Verrall
Arthur Woolgar Verrall was a classics scholar associated with Trinity College, Cambridge, and the first occupant of the King Edward VII C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atreus: Encyclopedia - Atreus
In Greek mythology, King Atreus (Greek: Ατρεύς, Atreús) ("fearless") of Mycenae was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia and father of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anax: Encyclopedia - Anax
Anax is an ancient Greek word for "high king". It was one of two Greek titles traditionally translated this way, the other being basileus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegisthus: Encyclopedia - Aegisthus
In Greek mythology, Aegisthus ("goat strength", also transliterated as Aegisthos or Aigísthos) was the son of Thyestes and his daughter,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cassandra: Encyclopedia - Cassandra
In Greek mythology, Cassandra ("she who entangles men") (also known as Alexandra) was a daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen Hecu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Age Of Bronze Comics: Encyclopedia - Age Of Bronze Comics
Age of Bronze is a comics series by writer/artist Eric Shanower retelling the legend of the Trojan War. It began in 1998 and is published...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aerope: Encyclopedia - Aerope
In Greek mythology, Aerope was the wife of King Atreus of Mycenae. She had an affair with his brother, Thyestes. Atreus promised Artemis ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adrastus: Encyclopedia - Adrastus
In Greek mythology, Adrastus, or Adrastos ("he who stands his ground", son of Talaus) was one of the three kings at Argos, along with Iph...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tyndareus: Encyclopedia - Tyndareus
In Greek mythology, Tyndareus (or Tyndareos) was a Spartan king, son of Oebalus (or Perieres) and Gorgophone (or Bateia), husband of Leda...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kypria: Encyclopedia - Kypria
The Kypria (Greek: Κύπρια; Latin: Cypria) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Trojan War cycle, that is,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mask Of Agamemnon: Encyclopedia Ii - Mask Of Agamemnon - Description
The mask is one of five discovered in the shaft graves at Mycenae, three in Grave IV and two in Grave V. In addition, the faces and hands...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oresteia Opera: Encyclopedia Ii - Oresteia Opera - Characters And Setting
Oresteia opera - Part I. Agamemnon. Agamemnon, king of Argos: bass Clytemnestra, his wife: alto Aegisthus, his first cousin: baritone ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia Ii - The Oresteia - The Libation Bearers
The Oresteia - Introduction. The Libation Bearers (also known as Choephoroe) is the second play of the Oresteia. It deals with the reun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artemis: Encyclopedia Ii - Artemis - Worship
She was the virgin moon goddess of the hunt, wild animals, healing, wilderness, chastity, and childbirth. She was worshipped as a fertili...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia Ii - The Oresteia - The Eumenides
The Oresteia - Introduction. The Eumenides is the final play of the Oresteia, in which Orestes and the Furies go before a jury of Athen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia Ii - The Oresteia - Analysis
That the play ends on a happy note may surprise modern readers, to whom the word tragedy denotes a drama ending in misfortune. The word d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electra Euripides: Encyclopedia Ii - Electra Euripides - The Set-up
Years before, near the start of the Trojan War, the Greek general Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia in order to appease the go...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artemis: Encyclopedia Ii - Artemis - Other Stories
Artemis - Callisto. Artemis killed any of her companions who lost their virginity, such as Maera and Callisto. One of Artemis' companio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transatlantic Telegraph Cable: Encyclopedia Ii - Transatlantic Telegraph Cable - Transatlantic
Field then directed the efforts to the trans-oceanic section with Charles Tilston Bright as chief engineer. A special survey was made alo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iphigeneia At Aulis: Encyclopedia Ii - Iphigeneia At Aulis - The Plot
At the start of the play, Agamemnon is having second thoughts about whether he can go through with the sacrifice of his daughter, and he ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transatlantic Telegraph Cable: Encyclopedia Ii - Transatlantic Telegraph Cable - Origins Of The Idea
After William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone had introduced their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across the Atlant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transatlantic Telegraph Cable: Encyclopedia Ii - Transatlantic Telegraph Cable - First Contact
On August 16, Queen Victoria sent a telegram of congratulation to President Buchanan through the line, and expressed a hope that it would...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artemis: Encyclopedia Ii - Artemis - Men
Artemis - Actaeon. She was once bathing nude in the woods when the Theban prince and hunter Actaeon stumbled across her. He stopped and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transatlantic Telegraph Cable: Encyclopedia Ii - Transatlantic Telegraph Cable - Disappointment In Great Ideas
However in September, after several days of progressive deterioration of the insulation, the cable failed. The reaction at this news was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iphigeneia At Aulis: Encyclopedia Ii - Iphigeneia At Aulis - Characters And Setting
Characters include: Agamemnon Menelaus Clytemnestra Iphigeneia Achilles an attendant (an old man) a chorus of women The play is set at ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transatlantic Telegraph Cable: Encyclopedia Ii - Transatlantic Telegraph Cable - The Great Eastern
The new cable was laid by the ship Great Eastern. Her immense hull was fitted with three iron tanks for the reception of 2,300 nautical m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iliad: Encyclopedia Ii - Iliad - The Iliad In Subsequent Arts And Literature
Subjects from the Trojan War were a favourite among ancient Greek dramatists. Aeschylus' trilogy Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Menelaus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Menelaus
Menelaus (Greek) King of Sparta, son of Atreus, younger brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen of Troy. {SD 2:796}   (See also:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iphigeneia In Tauris: Encyclopedia Ii - Iphigeneia In Tauris - Background
Years before, the young princess Iphigeneia narrowly averted death by sacrifice at the hands of her father, Agamemnon (see plot of Iphige...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iliad: Encyclopedia Ii - Iliad - The Story Of The Iliad
The Iliad narrates several weeks of action during the tenth and final year of the Trojan War, concentrating on the wrath of Achilles. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of The Saintes: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of The Saintes - The Rival Fleets
Battle of the Saintes - Britain Rodney. Marlborough 74 Arrogant 74 Alcide 74 Nonsuch 64 Conqueror 74 (George Balfour) Princessa 70 (3rd...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Trojan Women: Encyclopedia Ii - The Trojan Women - Characters And Setting
Characters include: Hecabe, alternately called Hecuba, former queen of Troy Cassandra, one of her daughters, a cursed prophetess Androma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iphigénie En Tauride: Encyclopedia Ii - Iphigénie En Tauride - Plot Synopsis
Act I begins in the entrance hall of the temple of Diana as a great storm rages. Iphigenia, sister of Orestes, is the high priestess of D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Time Bandits: Encyclopedia Ii - Time Bandits - Themes
Kevin is played by Craig Warnock, who has since gone on to play keyboards for New Wave of New Wave/ Britpop band These Animal Men and lat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Babylon 5 Articles: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Babylon 5 Articles - Alphabetic Index
List of Babylon 5 articles - A. Abbai - minor alien race. Acts of Sacrifice - second season episode. Agamemnon - Omega class destroyer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sms Goeben: Encyclopedia Ii - Sms Goeben - Imbros
Following the Dardanelles Campaign, Britain had maintained a flotilla in the Aegean, waiting for Goeben and Breslau to make a sortie. On ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Trojan Women: Encyclopedia Ii - The Trojan Women - Plot
Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diomedes: Encyclopedia Ii - Diomedes - Trojan War
According to Homer, Diomedes enters the war with a fleet of 80 ships, only second to Agamemnon's contribution of 100. According to some i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Patroclus: Encyclopedia Ii - Patroclus - Trojan War Activities
When Achilles refused to fight because of his feud with Agamemnon, Patroclus donned his armor, led the Myrmidons and killed many Trojans,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mycenae: Encyclopedia Ii - Mycenae - Literature And History
The memory of the power of Mycenae lingered in the minds of the Greeks through the subsequent centuries, commonly known as the Dark Age. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Satyricon: Encyclopedia Ii - Satyricon - Synopsis
The fragment opens with the appearance of the hero, Encolpius, who seems to be an itinerant lecturer travelling with a companion named As...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edward Berry: Encyclopedia Ii - Edward Berry - Service In The French Revolutionary Wars
As a reward for his gallantry in boarding a French ship, Berry was promoted to Lieutenant on 20 January 1794 and in May 1796 was appointe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nostoi: Encyclopedia Ii - Nostoi - Content
The Nostoi relates the return home of the Greek heroes after the end of the Trojan War. In current critical editions only five and a half...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odysseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Odysseus - During The Trojan War
Odysseus was one of the main Achaean characters in the Trojan War. The others were godlike Achilles, Agamemnon lord of men, Menelaus, Nes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - Prehistoric Period
Tradition relates that Sparta was founded by Lacedaemon, son of Zeus and Taygete, who called the city after his wife, the daughter of Eur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Cape Finisterre 1805: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Cape Finisterre 1805 - Battle
News of the returning French fleet reached Vice Admiral Robert Calder on 19 July. He was ordered to lift his blockade [1] of the ports of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. John's College U. S.: Encyclopedia Ii - St. John's College U. S. - Curriculum Details
St. John's College U. S. - The Great Books. The same set of Great Books is the basis of the curriculum at both campuses of St. John's C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kypria: Encyclopedia Ii - Kypria - Content
In current critical editions only about fifty lines survive of the Kypria's original text. We are almost entirely dependent on a summary ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Electra, Elektra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Electra, Elektra
Electra Elektra (Greek) One of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas and mother by Zeus of Dardanus, ancestor of the royal house of Troy. Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Origins
The Greeks are believed to have migrated southward into the Balkan peninsula in several waves beginning in the late 3rd millennium BC, th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Telemachy: Encyclopedia Ii - Telemachy - Ithaka
In Ithaka, meanwhile, suitors beset Odysseus' wife Penelope. They are rapidly consuming the absent King's wealth as they entertain themse...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electra Euripides: Encyclopedia Ii - Electra Euripides - Characters And Setting
Characters include: Electra Orestes Clytemnestra Pylades (silent) Castor Polydeuces (silent) a peasant, Electra's husband servants a cho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Starfleet Ship Classes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Starfleet Ship Classes - Apollo Class
It is believed by some fans that the Apollo class is a reduced-size counterpart to the Ambassador class, similar to the relationship of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iphigeneia In Tauris: Encyclopedia Ii - Iphigeneia In Tauris - Characters And Setting
Characters: Iphigeneia Orestes Pylades Thoas, king of Tauris Athena a herdsman a servant a chorus of female Greek slaves Setting: Tauri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thyestes: Encyclopedia Ii - Thyestes - Thyestes In Theatre
In the 1st century Seneca the Younger wrote a tragedy called Thyestes. In 2004 Jan van Vlijmen (1935-2004) completed his opera Thyeste. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troy Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Troy Film - Deviations From Homer's Version Of The Myth
It would be difficult to give a fair assessment as to the historical accuracy of the film; there is very little if any "historical" accur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mycenae: Encyclopedia Ii - Mycenae - Excavation
The first excavations at Mycenae were carried out by the Greek archaeologist Pittakis in 1841. He found and restored the Lion Gate. In 18...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argos: Encyclopedia Ii - Argos - Subdivisions
Argos - Communities and subdivisions. The two large communities of Argos and Kryovrysi cover about three-thirds of the entire municipal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electra Sophocles: Encyclopedia Ii - Electra Sophocles - Storyline
Orestes arrives with his friend Pylades and a paedagogus (an old attendant of Orestes). Their plan is to have the paedagogus announce tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pelops: Encyclopedia Ii - Pelops - Apocrypha
Pelops soon controlled the entire Peloponnesos (which means "Pelops's island") and then took Oenomaus's kingdom in Pisa. During the Troja...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trojan War: Encyclopedia Ii - Trojan War - Background
Trojan War - Peleus and Thetis the apple and the judgment. See also Judgement of Paris. According to Greek mythology, Zeus became kin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aeschylus: Encyclopedia Ii - Aeschylus - Works
Aeschylus' work has a strong moral and religious emphasis, concentrating on man's position in the cosmos in relation to the gods, divine ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orestes Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Orestes Mythology - Greek Literature
Orestes mythology - Homer. According to the Homeric story Orestes was absent from Mycenae when his father returned from the Trojan War ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Telamonian Aias: Encyclopedia Ii - Telamonian Aias - Trojan War
During the Iliad, Ajax is notable for his strength and courage, which he displays in abundance, particularly in two fights with Hector. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mycenae: Encyclopedia Ii - Mycenae - Name
The reconstructed Mycenaean Greek name of the place is Mukanai (long a), which has the form of a plural, like Athanai. The change of a to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trojan War: Encyclopedia Ii - Trojan War - The Aftermath
The ghost of Achilles appeared to the survivors of the war, demanding Polyxena, the Trojan princess, be sacrificed before anybody could l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Sheridan Babylon 5: Encyclopedia Ii - John Sheridan Babylon 5 - Early Life And Career
Sheridan, born on Earth, was the son of an Earth Alliance diplomat. Having enlisted in EarthForce, Sheridan rose to the rank of lieutenan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Euboea: Encyclopedia Ii - Euboea - Economics
The mining areas include magnesite in Mantoudi and Limni, lignite in Aliveri and iron and nickel from Diprhys. Marble is mined 3 km north...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Euboea: Encyclopedia Ii - Euboea - Communications
Euboea - Television. Space - Chalkida ... See also:Euboea, Euboea - Geography, Euboea - History, Euboea - Historic population, Eubo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diomedes: Encyclopedia Ii - Diomedes - Death
There are simply no records on Diomedes' death. In the post-Homeric myths, Athena granted Diomedes the immortality that was once meant fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iphigeneia: Encyclopedia Ii - Iphigeneia - Cymon And Iphigenia
The episode of Iphigenia and Cymon that inspired painters as Benjamin West (1773), John Everett Millais (1848) and Frederic Leighton (188...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argos: Encyclopedia Ii - Argos - History
Argos - Ancient Argos. The name of the city originates from the ancient Greek root arg- (PIE *arg-), which signified something bright (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iliad: Encyclopedia Ii - Iliad - Major Characters
As an epic, the Iliad contains a sometimes confusingly great number of characters. The latter half of the Iliad's second book (often call...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troilus And Cressida: Encyclopedia Ii - Troilus And Cressida - Synopsis
The play is set during the Trojan War, and essentially has two plots. In one Troilus, a Trojan prince, woos Cressida, has sex with her, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troilus And Cressida: Encyclopedia Ii - Troilus And Cressida - Sources
The story of Troilus and Cressida is a medieval fable that has no basis in Greek mythology; Shakespeare drew on a number of sources for t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michael Garibaldi: Encyclopedia Ii - Michael Garibaldi - Personality
For much of the television series, Garibaldi is the Security Chief onboard the space station Babylon 5. Although friendly with the other ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Patroclus: Encyclopedia Ii - Patroclus - Life Before The Trojan War
In his youth, Patroclus killed his friend, Clysonymus, during an argument. His father had to escape into exile with Patroclus to escape p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of The Saintes: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of The Saintes - Origins
On April 7, 1782 the Comte de Grasse set out from Martinique, with 35 ships of the line, including two-fity gun ships, and a large convoy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of The Saintes: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of The Saintes - Aftermath
The battle ended French and Spanish hopes of capturing Jamaica from the British. Rodney was created a peer with £2000 a year settled on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agamemnon: Encyclopedia Ii - Agamemnon - Early Life
Agamemnon's father Atreus was murdered by Aegisthus, who took possession of the throne of Mycenae and ruled jointly with his father Thyes...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap Viii - A
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages VIII - A . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word....   » Read the article