400 résultats pour "greek"

• Cronus (Kronus) Greek A Titan, the son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth).

• Nessus Greek The Centaur who caused the death of the hero Heracles.

• Iris Greek Messenger of the gods, especially of Zeus, and a devoted attendant of Hera.

• Niobe Greek The daughter of Tantalus; wife of Amphion, king of Thebes.

• Laertes Greek King of Ithaca husband of Anticlea, father of the hero Odysseus.

• satyrs Greek One of a class of woodland and mountain spirits attendant on Dionysus.

• Hydra (Water Creature) Greek A many-headed serpent, the offspring of Echidna and Typhon.

• Laomedon Greek First king of Troy; father of Priam, Hesione, and others.

• Hecatoncheires (Hecato nchires) Greek The hundred-handed giants, offspring of Gaia and Uranus.

• Oenomaus Greek King of Pisa in Elis, in northeast Peloponnesus; father of Hippodameia.

• Mycenae Greek An ancient city of Greece situated in Argos, in the northern Peloponnesus.

• ?stanbul - geography.

  İstanbul hosts a number of annual cultural events. The İstanbul Cultural Festival, held in the summer, offers music and dance performances in more than 50 venuesthroughout the city, including outdoors at Rumelihisar ı. The city also hosts a summer jazz festival. Turkey is one of the world’s largest producers of motion pictures, anda highly regarded international film festival takes place in İstanbul during the early months of the year. V RECREATION With increasing modernization, recreation is...

• Seriphos (Serifo s) Greek An island in the Western Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea.

• Anatomy.

  The body defends itself against foreign proteins and infectious microorganisms by means of a complex dual system that depends on recognizing a portion of the surfacepattern of the invader. The two parts of the system are termed cellular immunity, in which lymphocytes are the effective agent, and humoral immunity, based on theaction of antibody molecules. When particular lymphocytes recognize a foreign molecular pattern (termed an antigen), they release antibodies in great numbers; other lymphocy...

• Fire - chemistry.

  were usually natural caves. Eventually people learned to dip branches in pitch to form torches. They created crude lamps by filling a hollowed out piece of stone withmoss soaked in oil or tallow (a substance derived from animal fat). By cooking with fire, prehistoric people made the meat of the animals they killed more palatable and digestible. They learned to preserve meat by smoking it over a fire,vastly decreasing the danger of periodic starvation. Cooking also enabled them to add some for...

• Graea (Gray Women) Greek Daughters of Phorcys and Ceto; sisters of the Gorgons.

• Rhadamanthus (Rhadamanthys) Greek Son of Europa and the god Zeus; brother of Minos and Sarpedon.

• Minotaur Greek A mythical monster, halfhuman, half-bull, the offspring of Pasiphaë and a bull.

• Pan Greek An ancient deity from the mountainous region of Arcadia, in Greece.

• Rhea (Earth) Greek A Titan, the mother of the great ruling gods of Olympus.

• Polydectes Greek King of the island of Seriphos, protector of Danae and her son, Perseus.

• Psyche (Soul) Greek A mortal woman so beautiful that the goddess Aphrodite was jealous of her and ordered Eros to punish her.

• Gigantes (Giants) Greek The offspring of Gaia and the blood of the wounded Uranus.

• Orestes Greek The only son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; brother of Electra, Iphigenia, and Chrysothemis.

• Harmonia (Peace) Greek Daughter of Aphrodite and Ares; wife of Cadmus, king of Thebes.

• Leda Greek The daughter of King Thestius of Aetolia; wife of Tyndareus, king of Sparta.

• Io Greek The beautiful daughter of the river god Inachus, and a priestess of Hera.

• The break up of Yugoslavia in 1991 and Macedonia's unilateral declaration of independence brought a fierce reaction from the Greeks.

• Pygmalion Greek Son of Belus, a sculptor from Cyprus who despised women but adored the goddess Aphrodite.

• Hemera (Day, Daylight) Greek The daughter of Nyx (Night) and Erebus (Darkness); sister of Ether (Air).

• Melanion Greek A prince of Arcadia who won the hand of the renowned virgin huntress Atalanta.

• Phineus Greek Brother of Cepheus, the king of Ethiopia; uncle of Andromeda, whom he wished to marry.

• Minthe (Menthe) Greek A naiad, or river nymph of the Cocytus, a river that flowed to the underworld.

• Ladon Greek The dragon who guarded the garden where the apples of the Hesperides were kept.

• Nyx (Nox; Night) Greek The goddess of night, daughter of Chaos and sister of Erebus (Darkness).

• Omphal os (Navel) Greek The stone swallowed by Cronus, one of the Titans, thinking that it was his son Zeus.

• Ixion Greek King of the Lapiths in Thessaly, the largest ancient region of north-central Greece.

• Merope Greek Daughter of Atlas and Pleione; wife of Sisyphus; one of the "Seven Sisters" called the Pleiades.

• Gorgons (Grim Ones) Greek Three female monsters (the Euryae); daughters of Ceto and Phorcys; sisters of the Graea.

• Pythian Games Greek A sacred rite enacted in ancient Greece to honor the ancient serpentmonster, Python, slain by the god Apollo.

• Ino Greek Daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia; sister of Agave, Antonoë, and Semele; wife of Athamas.

• Omphale Greek The queen of Lydia who took the hero Heracles as her slave after he had desecrated the temple of Apollo.

• Pasiphaë Greek Daughter of Helios (the Sun); wife of Minos, king of Crete; mother with Minos of Ariadne, Androgeus, and Phaedra.

• Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) Greek The horn of the goat-Nymph, Amalthea, who had tended the infant Zeus.

• Telamon (Telemon) Greek Son of King Aecus of Aegina; brother of Peleus; father, with Hesione, of Teucer, the great archer.

• Penelope Greek The daughter of Icarius and Periboea; the wife of the hero Odysseus; mother of Telemachus.

• Daphne (Laurel) Greek A Dryad or tree Nymph, daughter of the river god Ladon, or of Peneus, and Gaia.

• nymphs (young maidens) Greek Minor female spirits who were supposed to inhabit various places in the natural world.

• Pelias Greek Son of Tyro, a half brother of Aeson, from whom Pelias stole the throne of Iolcus, in Thessaly.

• Leto Greek A Titan; daughter of Coeus and Phoebe; mother, by Zeus, of the twin deities, Artemis and Apollo.