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Wollongong (/ ˈ w ʊ l ə n ɡ ɒ ŋ / WUUL-ən-gong; Dharawal: Woolyungah) is a city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.The name is believed to originate from the Dharawal language, meaning either 'five islands/clouds', 'ground near water' or 'sound of the sea'. [3]
Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: John Murray, printed by Spottiswoode and Co. Online version at the Perseus.tufts library. Vergil, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
An arctic continent on the Gerardus Mercator map of 1595.. In Greek mythology, the Hyperboreans (Ancient Greek: ὑπερβόρε(ι)οι, romanized: hyperbóre(i)oi, pronounced [hyperbóre(ː)oi̯]; Latin: Hyperborei) were a mythical people who lived in the far northern part of the known world.
Achlys / ˈ æ k l ɪ s / (Ancient Greek: Ἀχλύς "mist"), [1] in the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles, is one of the figures depicted on Heracles' shield, perhaps representing the personification of sorrow. In Homer, achlys is the mist which fogs or blinds mortal eyes (often in death). Her Roman counterpart Caligo was said to have been the ...
In Greek mythology, Epimelides (Ancient Greek: Ἐπιμηλιάδες, Ἐπιμηλίδες) are nymphs who protect herds. [1] The homonymic names for an epimelias (Ἐπιμηλιάς) relates them to both fruit trees and flock animals giving them their dual role. Their hair is white, much like apple blossoms or undyed wool.
The death of Dirce is depicted in a marble statue known as the Farnese Bull, which is now in the collections of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. The colossal piece, a first-century-AD Roman copy of a second-century-BC Hellenistic Greek original, was first excavated in the 16th century in the Baths of Caracalla .
Little is known about Euhemerus's life, and his birthplace is disputed. Classical writers such as Diodorus Siculus, [1] Plutarch, [2] and Polybius, [3] maintained that Euhemerus was a Messenian, but did not specify whether he came from the Peloponnesian or the Sicilian Messene, which was an ancient Greek colony.