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Persephone opening a cista containing the infant Adonis, on a pinax from Locri Epizephyrii. Adonis was an exceedingly beautiful mortal man with whom Persephone fell in love. [72] [73] [74] After he was born, Aphrodite entrusted him to Persephone to raise. But when Persephone got a glimpse of the beautiful Adonis—finding him as attractive as ...
The album Turbo Ocho by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers features a track titled Persephone [7] as a love song written by Hades to Persephone. The folk opera Hadestown based on the myth of Orpheus, Persephone is a main character. Ani DiFranco portrays Persephone in the 2010 concept album, while in the stage adaptation the role was originated by ...
The feature was originally known as the Hourglass Sea but has been given different names by different cartographers. In 1840, Johann Heinrich von Mädler compiled a map of Mars from his observations and called the feature Atlantic Canale. In Richard Proctor's 1867 map it is called then Kaiser Sea (after Frederik Kaiser of the Leiden Observatory).
The best-known myth involving Pluto or Hades is the abduction of Persephone, also known as Kore ("the Maiden"). The earliest literary versions of the myth are a brief mention in Hesiod's Theogony and the extended narrative of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter; in both these works, the ruler of the underworld is named as Hades ("the Hidden One").
When Hades abducted Persephone, they failed to save the girl. In her rage, Persephone's mother Demeter turned them into winged creatures. White raven: A black one Apollo Clinis' son Lycius, now a raven with a white plumage, informed Apollo that his pregnant lover Coronis had been unfaithful to him. In rage, Apollo turned the white raven into a ...
Schematic diagram of the orbits of the fictional planets Vulcan, Counter-Earth, and Phaëton in relation to the five innermost planets of the Solar System.. Fictional planets of the Solar System have been depicted since the 1700s—often but not always corresponding to hypothetical planets that have at one point or another been seriously proposed by real-world astronomers, though commonly ...
Mars to scale among the Inner Solar System planetary-mass objects beside the Sun, arranged by the order of their orbits outward from the Sun (from left: Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars and Ceres) Mars is approximately half the diameter of Earth, with a surface area only slightly less than the total area of Earth's dry land. [2]
Many places on Mars show rocks arranged in layers. Rock can form layers in a variety of ways. Volcanoes, wind, or water can produce layers. [8] A detailed discussion of layering with many Martian examples can be found in Sedimentary Geology of Mars. [9] Layers can be hardened by the action of groundwater.