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Tyche was uniquely venerated at Itanos in Crete, as Tyche Protogeneia, linked with the Athenian Protogeneia ("firstborn"), daughter of Erechtheus, whose self-sacrifice saved the city. [13] In Alexandria the Tychaeon, the Greek temple of Tyche, was described by Libanius as one of the most magnificent of the entire Hellenistic world. [14]
Protogeneia (/ ˌ p r ɒ t ə. dʒ ə ˈ n aɪ ə /; Ancient Greek: Πρωτογένεια means "the firstborn"), in Greek mythology, may refer to: Protogeneia, a Phthian princess as the daughter of King Deucalion of Thessaly and Pyrrha , mythological progenitors of the Hellenes . [ 1 ]
An artist's rendering of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt (inset). Tyche / ˈ t aɪ k i / was a hypothetical gas giant located in the Solar System's Oort cloud, first proposed in 1999 by astrophysicists John Matese, Patrick Whitman and Daniel Whitmire of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
A series of connected deaths across the country are tied to a group called the "Zizians," experts say. Firings of key bird flu response personnel leave the response to the disease in a precarious ...
It was the largest city in North America in the 12th century. [19] 1150–1350: Ancestral Pueblo people are in their Pueblo III Period; 1200: Construction begins on the Grand Village of the Natchez near Natchez, Mississippi. This ceremonial center for the Natchez people is occupied and built upon until the early 17th century. [20]
China's President Xi Jinping affirmed his "no limits" partnership in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, China's state media reported, on the third anniversary of Russia ...
Renovations of this three-bedroom, two-bathroom home are currently being featured on Season 46 of the iconic show, which has been showcasing home improvement projects across the nation since 1978 ...