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Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787. Ossian (/ ˈ ɒ ʃ ən, ˈ ɒ s i ən /; Irish Gaelic/Scottish Gaelic: Oisean) is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), [1] and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian.
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples ob-, o-, oc-, of-, og-, op-, os-[1]against: Latin: ob: obduracy, obdurate, obduration ...
As Ager collected and added more information about languages and various writing systems, the project evolved into an encyclopedia. [ 3 ] It provides reference materials for some 300 written scripts used in different languages, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] over 1,000 constructed, adapted and fictional scripts, and materials for learning languages.
Ossan is a community/status group of Muslims in Kerala, south India. The Ossan men were the traditional circumcisers [ 1 ] among the Muslims of the central Malabar Coast (northern Kerala). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Ossan women were experts in pre- and post-delivery care of pregnant women ( midwifery ).
Philemon (and occasionally Baucis) is a central protagonist in Carl Jung's revelatory text, the Red Book. Referenced by Ezra Pound in the poem "The Tree" and in "Canto XC". The Overstory by Richard Powers makes several references to the story and to the idea of gods' traveling incognito.
This article contains information about Illyrian vocabulary. No Illyrian texts survive, so sources for identifying Illyrian words have been identified by Hans Krahe [1] as being of four kinds: inscriptions, glosses of Illyrian words in classical texts, names—including proper names (mostly inscribed on tombstones), toponyms and river names—and Illyrian loanwords in other languages.
Laocoön and His Sons sculpture shows them being attacked by sea serpents. As related in the Aeneid, after a nine-year war on the beaches of Troy between the Danaans (Greeks from the mainland) and the Trojans, the Greek seer Calchas induces the leaders of the Greek army to win the war by means of subterfuge: build a huge wooden horse and sail away from Troy as if in defeat—leaving the horse ...
The "Hymn to Liberty", [a] also known as the "Hymn to Freedom", [b] is a Greek poem written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 and set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros in 1828. It officially became the national anthem of Greece in 1864 and Cyprus in 1966. Consisting of 158 stanzas in total, it is the longest national anthem in the world by length of ...