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The subjects of the Silvae vary widely. Five poems are devoted to flattery of the emperor and his favourites; but of these enough has already been said. Six are lamentations for deaths, or consolations to survivors. Statius seems to have felt a special pride in this class of his productions; and certainly, notwithstanding the excessive and conventional employment of pretty mythological pictures, with other affectations, he sounds notes of pat ...

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Statius, Statius - Silvae, Statius - Epic poems

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Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano (July 14, 1454 – September 24, 1494) was a Florentine classical scholar and poet, one of the revivers of Humanist Latin. He used his didactic poem Manto, written in the 1480s as an introduction to his lectures on Virgil. Poliziano - Early Life. Known in literary annals as Angelo Poliziano or Politianus from his birthplace, was born at Montepulciano in Tuscany. His father, Benedetto, a jurist of good family and distinguished ability, was murdered by political antagonists f ...

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Asopus or Asôpos is the name of five different rivers in Greece and also in Greek mythology the name of the gods of those rivers. Asopus - The rivers. Boeotian Asopus, a river of Boeotia rising on Mt. Cithaeron and flowing through the district of Plataea into the Euripus. The battle of Plataea was fought on its banks. It marked the bounday between Theban and Plataean territory. According to Pausanias (5.14.3) the Boeotian Asopus can produce the tallest reeds of any river. Phliasian As ...

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• Asopus - The rivers
• Asopus - Mythology
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• Asopus - Mixed Tales
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Mithraism (in Persian: مهرپرستی) was an ancient mystery religion prominent from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD. It was based on worship of the god Mithras and derives from the Persian and Indic god Mithra and other Zoroastrian deities. Mithras was known throughout Europe and Asia by the names Mithra, Mitra, Meitros, Mihr, Mehr, and Meher. The veneration of this God began about 4000 years ago in Persia, where ...

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• Mithraism - The iconography of Mithraism
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• Mithraism - Mithraism In Persia Iran
• Mithraism - Mithraism in early Rome
• Mithraism - Mithraism in the Roman Empire
• Mithraism - The demise of Mithraism
• Mithraism - Connections
• Mithraism - Parallels to Christianity
• Mithraism - Mithraic studies
• Mithraism - Places to see

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Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 0s BC - 0s - 10s - 20s - 30s - 40s - 50s - 60s - 70s - 80s - 90s - 100s Years: 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 96 - Events. September 18 - Nerva succeeds Roman emperor Domitian after the latter's assassination End of period covered by Tacitus in his Histories. The Book of Revelation is written (traditional date) 96 - Births. Including:

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Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. Our surviving sources of mythology are literary reworkings of this oral tradition, supplemented by interpretations of iconic imagery, sometimes modern ones, sometimes ancient ones, as myth was a means for later Greeks themselves to throw light on cult practices and traditions that were no longer explicable. The historian must sometimes deduce from hints in imagery, such as in ...

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• Greek mythology - Did the Greeks believe their myths?
• Greek mythology - Hellenistic rationalism
• Greek mythology - Syncretizing trends
• Greek mythology - Belles and Beaus of Greek Mythology
• Greek mythology - Modern interpreters
• Greek mythology - Greek cosmology
• Greek mythology - Related subjects
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In Greek mythology, Capaneus was a son of Hipponous and husband of Evadne, with whom he fathered Sthenelus. According to the legend, Capaneus had immense strength and body size and was outstanding warrior. He was also notorious for his arrogance. He stood just at the wall of Thebes at the siege of Thebes and shouted that Zeus himself could not stop him from invading it. Zeus struck and killed Capaneus with a thunderbolt, and Evadne threw herself on her husband's funeral pyre and died. His story may be found in Ae ...

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Dedication (Lat. dedicatio, from dedicare, to proclaim, to announce), properly the setting apart of anything by solemn proclamation. It is thus in Latin the term particularly applied to the consecration of altars, temples and other sacred buildings, and also to the inscription prefixed to a book, &c., and addressed to some particular person. This latter practice, which formerly had the purpose of gaining the patronage and support of the person so addressed, is now only a mark of affection or regard. In law, the word ...

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Lucifer is a Latin word made up of two words, lux (light; genitive lucis) and ferre (to bear, to bring), meaning light-bearer. Lucifer appears in Greek mythology as heosphoros, the "Dawn-bringer"; it is used by poets to represent the Morning Star at moments when "Venus" would introduce distracting imagery of the goddess. "Lucifer" is Jerome's direct translation in his Vulgate (4th century) of the Septuagint's Greek translation, as heosphoros, "morning star" or "Day Star," literal ...

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• Lucifer - Lucifer in Roman poetry
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In Greek mythology, Ganymede (Greek: Γανυμήδης, Ganumêdês) was a divine hero whose homeland was the Troad. As a beautiful Trojan prince, son of eponymous Tros himself, Ganymede became Zeus's lover and cupbearer to the gods. For the etymology of his name Robert Graves (The Greek Myths) offers ganuesthai + medea, "rejoicing in virility." Ganymede - Story. Ganymede was kidnapped by Zeus from Mount Ida in Phrygia, the setting for more than one myth-element bearing on the e ...

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• Ganymede - Audio file of the myth
• Ganymede - Moon
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Classical Latin is the form of the Latin language used by the ancient Romans in what is usually regarded as "classical" Latin literature. Its use spanned the Golden Age of Latin literature—broadly the 1st century BC and the early 1st century AD—possibly extending to the Silver Age—broadly the 1st and 2nd centuries. What is now called "Classical Latin" was, in fact, a highly stylized and polished written literary language selectively constructed from early Latin, of which far fewer remains. Classical Latin is the product o ...

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Poetry Ennius Comedy Plautus Terence ...

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Latin literature, Latin literature - Early Latin literature, Latin literature - Golden Age, Latin literature - Silver Latin, Latin literature - Latin Literature in the Late Antique period, Latin literature - Medieval and Christian Latin literature

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The scope of Greek mythology is enormous. It extends from the horrific crimes of the early gods and the bloody wars of Troy and Thebes, to the childhood pranks of Hermes and the touching grief of Demeter for Persephone. The legions of gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, monsters, daemons, nymphs, satyrs, and centaurs that one encounters in traversing this vast landscape are beyond count. Greek mythology has an approximate internal chronology. While contradictions in the material make an absolute timeline impossible, it breaks down roug ...

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The Confessio is divided into a prologue and eight books, which are divided thematically. The narrative structure is overlaid on this in three levels: the external matter, the narrative frame, and the individual tales which make up the bulk of the work. Confessio Amantis - External matter. The external matter comprises the prologue, which spills over briefly into the start of Book 1, and an epilogue at the end of Book 8. Unlike the bulk of the Confessio, these have much in common with Gower's ...

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Confessio Amantis, Confessio Amantis - Textual history, Confessio Amantis - Style and language, Confessio Amantis - Structure and argument, Confessio Amantis - External matter, Confessio Amantis - Narrative frame, Confessio Amantis - The tales, Confessio Amantis - Reception, Confessio Amantis - Legacy

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Appian Way - Between Rome and Lake Albano. The road began in the Forum Romanum, passed through the Servian Wall at the porta Capena, went through a cutting in the clivus Martis, and left the city. For this stretch of the road, the builders used the via Latina. The building of the Aurelian wall centuries later required the placing of another gate, the porta Appia. Outside of Rome the new via Appia went through well-to-do suburbs along the via Norba, the ancient track to the Alban hills, where Norba was situ ...

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Demogorgon is first mentioned by a Christian scholiast of ca 350 - 400 CE, who was writing glossary annotations into the margins of Statius, Thebaid. This unidentified scribbler is misidentified with various Christian authors by enthusiastic modern demonologists. Prior to this, there is no pagan mention of any mythic "Demogorgon" anywhere. By the late Middle Ages, nevertheless, the reality of a primal creative pagan "Demogorgon" was so well fixed in the European imagination that "Demogorgon's son Pan" became a bizarre va ...

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The success of his countrymen may have been what motivated Martial to move to Rome, once he had completed his education, in 64, where Seneca the Younger and Lucan were probably his first patrons. Of the details of his life for the first twenty years or so after he came to Rome we do not know much. He published some juvenile poems of which he thought very little in his maturer years, and he laughs at a foolish bookseller who would not allow them to die a natural death (i. 113). Martial had neither youthful passion nor youthful enthusia ...

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Martial, Martial - Epigrams, Martial - Early life, Martial - Life in Rome, Martial - Opinions of his work and character

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Gaius Julius Solinus cites Cato the Elder's lost Origines for the story that the city was founded by Catillus the Arcadian, a son of Amphiaraus, who came there having escaped the slaughter at Thebes. Catillus and his three sons Tiburtus, Coras, and Catillus drove out the Siculi from the Aniene plateau and founded a city they named Tibur in honor of Tiburtus. According to a more historical account, Tibur was instead a colony of Alba Longa. Historical traces of settlement in the ...

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Tivoli Italy, Tivoli Italy - History, Tivoli Italy - Roman Tibur, Tivoli Italy - Medieval Tivoli, Tivoli Italy - Renaissance Tivoli, Tivoli Italy - Modern Tivoli, Tivoli Italy - Economy, Tivoli Italy - Main sights

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Epic poetry - Ancient epics to 600. 20th century BC: The Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumerian mythology) 19th century BC (traditional date): Ramayana (Hindu mythology) 1316 BC (traditional date): Mahabharata (Hindu mythology). 8th century BC: The Iliad by Homer (Greek mythology) The Odyssey by Homer (Greek mythology) Epic Cycle (dates uncertain): Titanomachy Theban Cycle Oe ...

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Epic poetry, Epic poetry - Oral epics or world folk epics, Epic poetry - Epics in literate societies, Epic poetry - Notable epic poems, Epic poetry - Ancient epics to 600, Epic poetry - Medieval Epics 600-1500, Epic poetry - Modern Epics from 1500, Epic poetry - Prose Epics, Epic poetry - Other Epics

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In the hands of the poets the epithalamium was developed into a special literary form, and received considerable cultivation. Sappho, Anacreon, Stesichorus and Pindar are all regarded as masters of the species, but the finest example preserved in Greek literature is the 18th Idyll of Theocritus, which celebrates the marriage of Menelaus and Helen. In Latin, the epithalamium, imitated from Fescennine Greek models, was a base form of literature, when Catullus redeemed it and gave it dignity by model ...

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Epithalamium, Epithalamium - History, Epithalamium - Development as a Literary Form

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