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The kerykes / ˈ k ɛ r ɪ ˌ k iː z / or ceryces / ˈ s ɛ r ɪ ˌ s iː z / (Ancient Greek: Κήρυκες, pl. of Κῆρυξ, Keryx) [1] of Bronze Age Pylos 1200 BC, home to the aged Homeric hero Nestor and the Neleides, [2] are listed in the Linear B tablets as 𐀏𐀬𐀐 ka-ru-ke serving the 𐀨𐀷𐀒𐀪 ra-wa-ko-ri, the commander of armed forces. [3]
In Homer’s time, ceryx was a profession of trusted attendants or retainers of a chieftain. The role of ceryces / ˈ s ɛ r ɪ ˌ s iː z / expanded, however, to include acting as inviolable messengers between states, even in time of war, proclaiming meetings of the council, popular assembly, or court of law, reciting there the formulas of prayer, and summoning persons to attend.
The right-hand animal has a shorter tail, and its legs end in cloven hoofs. Historically, this artwork was believed to have belonged to Powhatan, who was the paramount chief of Tsenacommacah, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607 ...
In the 96th Olympiad (396 BC), beside the athletic and artistic competitions, [1] the Herald and Trumpet contest was added, which was already a formal element of the Olympic ritual performed by the kerykes (heralds) and salpinktai (trumpeters).
Vica Kerekes was born to ethnic Hungarian parents. After studying at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, she moved to Budapest in 2001, where she met her future husband, artist Csaba Vigh. [1]
Publius Herennius Dexippus (Greek: Δέξιππος; c. 210–273 AD), Greek historian, statesman and general, was an hereditary priest of the Eleusinian family of the Kerykes, and held the offices of archon basileus and eponymous in Athens. [1]
Andocides was the son of Leogoras, and was born in Athens around 440 BC. [2] He belonged to the ancient Eupatrid family of the Kerykes, who traced their lineage up to Odysseus and the god Hermes.
Kerekes was born and grew up in the Bedford Township area of Michigan, and attended Bedford High School. Kerekes formed the band Citizen in 2009 and played their first show on January 28, 2010, at Frankie's Inner City in Toledo, Ohio where they opened for Set Your Goals.