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Alethea is an English-language female first name derived from the Ancient Greek feminine noun ἀλήθεια, alḗtheia, 'truth'. Aletheia was the personification of truth in Greek philosophy . Alethea was not in use as a name prior to the 1500s, and likely originated when English Puritans started using it as a virtue name .
A painting that reveals (aletheia) a whole world.Heidegger mentions this particular work of Van Gogh's (Pair of Shoes, 1895) in The Origin of the Work of Art.In the early to mid 20th-century, Martin Heidegger brought renewed attention to the concept of aletheia, by relating it to the notion of disclosure, or the way in which things appear as entities in the world.
Althaea was the daughter of King Thestius [3] and Eurythemis, and was sister to Leda, Hypermnestra, Iphiclus, Euippus. [4] She was also the wife of Oeneus, king of Calydon, and mother of sons, Meleager, Toxeus, Thyreus (Pheres or Phereus), Clymenus, Agelaus (), Periphas and daughters, Deianeira, Gorge, Melanippe and Eurymede (the latter two were included in the Meleagrids). [5]
Alèthe is a variant of the Greek name "Alethea," meaning "truth" or "reality". Alèthe was the daughter of the first Count Bernard I de Montbard (1040–1103) in Burgundy. [ 1 ] She spent her childhood at the Château de Montbard and was the sister of André de Montbard , one of the nine founders of the Order of the Knights Templar and fifth ...
Alethea Howard, 14th Baroness Talbot, 17th Baroness Strange of Blackmere, 13th Baroness Furnivall, Countess of Arundel (1585 – 3 June [O.S. 24 May] 1654), née Lady Alethea Talbot (pronounced "Al-EE-thia" [1]), was a famous patron and art collector, and one of England's first published female scientists.
Aletheia (ἀλήθεια) is truth or disclosure in philosophy.. Aletheia may also refer to: . 259 Aletheia, a large asteroid; Aletheia, 2013 album by Hope for the Dying ...
Althea (Old English: Alþea) is an English female given name. It is a variation of the Greek name Althaea (Αλθαια), which may be related to Greek ἀλθος althos ("healing"). Richard Lovelace used the name in a poem (" To Althea, from Prison ") that John Milton later alluded to in his own poem " Lycidas ".
Hayter was the daughter of Sir William Goodenough Hayter, a legal adviser to the Egyptian government, and his wife, Alethea Slessor, daughter of a Hampshire rector.Her brother, another Sir William Goodenough Hayter, went on to become British ambassador to the Soviet Union and Warden of New College, Oxford, while her sister Priscilla Napier was a biographer.