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The Greek word for chariot, ἅρμα, hárma, is also used nowadays to denote a tank, properly called άρμα μάχης, árma mákhēs, literally a "combat chariot". The Charioteer of Delphi was dedicated to the god Apollo in 474 BC by the tyrant of Gela in commemoration of a Pythian racing victory at Delphi .
The imagery surrounding a chariot-driving solar deity is likely Indo-European in origin. [13] [14] [15] Greek solar imagery begins with the gods Helios and Eos, who are brother and sister, and who become in the day-and-night-cycle the day (hemera) and the evening (hespera), as Eos accompanies Helios in his journey across the skies. At night, he ...
The Charioteer of Delphi, also known as Heniokhos (Greek: Ἡνίοχος, the rein-holder), is a statue surviving from Ancient Greece, and an example of ancient bronze sculpture. The life-size (1.8m) [1] statue of a chariot driver was found in 1896 at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. [2] It is now in the Delphi Archaeological Museum.
In his Dialogues of the Gods, the satirical writer Lucian of Samosata mentions that Clymene along with Phaethon pressured Helios to lend his chariot to the boy, [29] and that sometimes Helios lingers with Clymene, forgetting to drive his chariot. [30] A passage from Greek anthology also mentions Helios visiting Clymene in her room. [31]
The noun merkavah "thing to ride in, cart" is derived from the consonantal root רכב r-k-b with the general meaning "to ride". The word "chariot" is found 44 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible—most of them referring to normal chariots on earth, [5] and although the concept of the Merkabah is associated with Ezekiel's vision (), the word is not explicitly written in Ezekiel 1.
Logeion is an open-access database of Latin and Ancient Greek dictionaries. [1] Developed by Josh Goldenberg and Matt Shanahan in 2011, it is hosted by the University of Chicago . Apart from simultaneous search capabilities across different dictionaries and reference works, Logeion offers access to frequency and collocation data from the ...
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon is a dictionary of the Ancient Greek language published by Cambridge University Press in April 2021. First conceived in 1997 by the classicist John Chadwick, the lexicon was compiled by a team of researchers based in the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge consisting of the Hellenist James Diggle (Editor-in-Chief), Bruce Fraser, Patrick James, Oliver Simkin, Anne ...
Page from a 14th-century MS that Gaisford used for his 1848 edition. Etymologicum Magnum (Ancient Greek: Ἐτυμολογικὸν Μέγα, transl. Ἐtymologikὸn Méga) (standard abbreviation EM, or Etym. M. in older literature) is the traditional title of a Greek lexical encyclopedia compiled at Constantinople by an unknown lexicographer around 1150 AD.