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54 relations: Actor (mythology), Adrastus, Aeschylus, Amphiaraus, Amphiareion of Oropos, Amphora, Anna Swanwick, Antigone, Antigone (Sophocles play), Argos, Arthur Way, Capaneus, Catalogue of Ships, Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, David Grene, Dionysia, Dramaturgy, E. D. A. Morshead, Edwyn Bevan, Epigoni, Erra (god), Eteocles, Eteoclus, Etruscan civilization, Getty Villa, Greek underworld, Herbert Weir Smyth, Hippomedon, Hyperbius, Iliad, Ismene, Lille Stesichorus, Lost work, Mecisteus, Megareus of Thebes, Melanippus, Mytheme, Oedipus, Parthenopeus, Philip Vellacott, Polynices, Polyphontes, Prometheus, Pyrgi, Satyr play, Sophocles, Stesichorus, Tell Halaf, Thebes, Greece, Trojan War, ..., Tydeus, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Villa Giulia, Walter Burkert. Expand index (4 more) »
Actor (mythology)
Actor (Ancient Greek: Ἄκτωρ; gen.: Ἄκτoρος Aktoros) is a very common name in Greek mythology.
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Adrastus
Adrastus (Ancient Greek: Ἄδραστος Adrastos) or Adrestus (Ionic Ἄδρηστος, Adrēstos), traditionally translated as 'inescapable', was a legendary king of Argos during the war of the Seven Against Thebes.
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Aeschylus
Aeschylus (Αἰσχύλος Aiskhulos;; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian.
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Amphiaraus
In Greek mythology, Amphiaraus (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιάραος Amphiaraos, "doubly cursed" or "twice Ares-like") was the king of Argos along with Adrastus and Iphis.
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Amphiareion of Oropos
The Amphiareion of Oropos (Άμφιαρείον Ωρωπού), situated in the hills 6 km southeast of the fortified port of Oropos, was a sanctuary dedicated in the late 5th century BCE to the hero Amphiaraos, where pilgrims went to seek oracular responses and healing.
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Amphora
An amphora (Greek: ἀμφορεύς, amphoréus; English plural: amphorae or amphoras) is a type of container of a characteristic shape and size, descending from at least as early as the Neolithic Period.
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Anna Swanwick
Anna Swanwick (22 June 1813 – 2 November 1899) was an English author and feminist.
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Antigone
In Greek mythology, Antigone (Ἀντιγόνη) is the daughter of Oedipus and his mother Jocasta.
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Antigone (Sophocles play)
Antigone (Ἀντιγόνη) is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC.
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Argos
Argos (Modern Greek: Άργος; Ancient Greek: Ἄργος) is a city in Argolis, the Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
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Arthur Way
Arthur Sanders Way (13 February 1847 – 25 September 1930), was a classical scholar, translator and headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne, Australia.
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Capaneus
In Greek mythology, Capaneus (Καπανεύς, Kapaneús) was a son of Hipponous and either Astynome (daughter of Talaus) or Laodice (daughter of Iphis), and husband of Evadne, with whom he fathered Sthenelus.
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Catalogue of Ships
The Catalogue of Ships (νεῶν κατάλογος, neōn katálogos) is an epic catalogue in Book 2 of Homer's Iliad (2.494-759), which lists the contingents of the Achaean army that sailed to Troy.
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Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum
Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum is an international project with the goal to publish all existing Etruscan bronze mirrors.
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David Grene
David Grene (13 April 1913 – 10 September 2002) was a professor of classics at the University of Chicago from 1937 until his death.
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Dionysia
The Dionysia was a large festival in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus, the central events of which were the theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies and, from 487 BC, comedies.
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Dramaturgy
The word Dramaturgy, is from the greek δραματουργέιν 'to write a drama'.
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E. D. A. Morshead
Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (1849 – 24 October 1912) was an English classicist and teacher.
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Edwyn Bevan
Edwyn Robert Bevan OBE, FBA (15 February 1870 in London – 18 October 1943 in London) was a versatile British philosopher and historian of the Hellenistic world.
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Epigoni
In Greek mythology, Epigoni (from Ἐπίγονοι, meaning "offspring") are the sons of the Argive heroes who had fought and been killed in the first Theban war, the subject of the Thebaid, in which Polynices and six allies (the Seven Against Thebes) attacked Thebes because Polynices' brother, Eteocles, refused to give up the throne as promised.
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Erra (god)
Erra (sometimes called Irra) is an Akkadian plague god known from an 'epos' of the eighth century BCE.
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Eteocles
In Greek mythology, Eteocles (Ἐτεοκλῆς) was a king of Thebes, the son of Oedipus and either Jocasta or Euryganeia.
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Eteoclus
In Greek mythology, Eteoclus (Ἐτέοκλος) was the son of Iphis.
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Etruscan civilization
The Etruscan civilization is the modern name given to a powerful and wealthy civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany, western Umbria and northern Lazio.
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Getty Villa
The Getty Villa is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Greek underworld
In mythology, the Greek underworld is an otherworld where souls go after death.
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Herbert Weir Smyth
Herbert Weir Smyth (August 8, 1857 – July 16, 1937) was an American classical scholar.
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Hippomedon
Hippomedon (Ἰππομέδων, gen.: Ἰππομέδοντος) may refer to several figures in Greek mythology.
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Hyperbius
In Greek mythology, the name Hyperbius (Ὑπέρβιος, Ὑpérvios) may refer to.
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Iliad
The Iliad (Ἰλιάς, in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer.
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Ismene
Ismene (Ἰσμήνη, Ismēnē) is the name of the daughter and half-sister of Oedipus, daughter and granddaughter of Jocasta, and sister of Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynices.
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Lille Stesichorus
The Lille Stesichorus is a papyrus containing a major fragment of poetry usually attributed to the archaic lyric poet Stesichorus, discovered at Lille University and published in 1976.
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Lost work
A lost work is a document, literary work, or piece of multimedia produced some time in the past of which no surviving copies are known to exist.
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Mecisteus
In Greek mythology, Mecisteus (Μηκιστεύς) was the son of Talaus and Lysimache.
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Megareus of Thebes
Megareus (or Menoeceus) of Thebes was a warrior of Thebes, who figures in the war of the Seven Against Thebes - the struggle between Eteocles and Polynices, the twin sons of Oedipus, for the throne of Thebes.
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Melanippus
In Greek mythology, there were eleven people named Melanippus (Μελάνιππος, Melánippos).
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Mytheme
In structuralism-influenced studies of mythology, a mytheme is a fundamental generic unit of narrative structure (typically involving a relationship between a character, an event, and a theme) from which myths are thought to be constructed — a minimal unit that is always found shared with other, related mythemes and reassembled in various ways ("bundled") or linked in more complicated relationships.
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Oedipus
Oedipus (Οἰδίπους Oidípous meaning "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.
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Parthenopeus
For the hero of mediaeval romance, see Partonopeus de Blois In Greek mythology, Parthenopeus or Parthenopaeus (Παρθενοπαῖος, Parthenopaῖos) was one of the Seven Against Thebes, a native of Arcadia, described as young and outstandingly good-looking, but at the same time arrogant, ruthless and over-confident, although an unproblematic ally for the Argives.
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Philip Vellacott
Philip Humphrey Vellacott (16 January 1907 – 24 August 1997) was an English classical scholar, known for his numerous translations of Greek tragedy.
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Polynices
In Greek mythology, Polynices (Greek: Πολυνείκης, Polyneíkes - "manifold strife") was the son of Oedipus and Jocasta and the younger brother of Eteocles.
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Polyphontes
In Greek mythology, Polyphontes was the son of Autophonus, a warrior who figured in Polynices' war to regain the throne of Thebes from his brother, Eteocles.
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Prometheus
In Greek mythology, Prometheus (Προμηθεύς,, meaning "forethought") is a Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure who is credited with the creation of man from clay, and who defies the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humanity, an act that enabled progress and civilization.
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Pyrgi
Pyrgi was an ancient Etruscan port in Latium, central Italy, to the north-west of Caere.
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Satyr play
Satyr plays were an ancient Greek form of tragicomedy, similar in spirit to the bawdy satire of burlesque.
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Sophocles
Sophocles (Σοφοκλῆς, Sophoklēs,; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41.
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Stesichorus
Stesichorus (Στησίχορος, Stēsikhoros; c. 630 – 555 BC) was the first great lyric poet of the West.
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Tell Halaf
Tell Halaf (تل حلف) is an archaeological site in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria, near the Turkish border, just opposite Ceylanpınar.
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Thebes, Greece
Thebes (Θῆβαι, Thēbai,;. Θήβα, Thíva) is a city in Boeotia, central Greece.
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Trojan War
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.
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Tydeus
In Greek mythology, Tydeus (Τυδεύς Tūdeus) was an Aeolian hero of the generation before the Trojan War.
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Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
Enno Friedrich Wichard Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (22 December 1848 – 25 September 1931) was a German classical philologist.
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Villa Giulia
The Villa Giulia is a villa in Rome, Italy.
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Walter Burkert
Walter Burkert (born 2 February 1931, Neuendettelsau; died 11 March 2015, Zurich) was a German scholar of Greek mythology and cult.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Against_Thebes
