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Arnaeus, or Irus, as he is referred to for his connection as a messenger to the deity Iris, [2] is a character in Homer's Odyssey. He is a beggar in Ithaca who is willing to run messages for the Suitors of Penelope. He encounters Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, in Book 18 of the Odyssey.
1943 edition. Iceland's Bell (Icelandic: Íslandsklukkan) is a historical novel by Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author Halldór Kiljan Laxness.It was published in three parts: Iceland's Bell (1943), The Bright Jewel or The Fair Maiden (1944) and Fire in Copenhagen (1946).
In Book 18, the beggar Irus was threatened with being handed over to Echetus, who would then have had Irus' nose, ears and testes cut off and thrown to his dogs. The story also described how Echetus had a daughter, Metope , who had an intrigue with a lover; as a punishment Echetus mutilated the lover and blinded Metope by piercing her eyes with ...
Similar to his own consistent indebtedness to Homer, [5] [6] Virgil is most likely drawing similarities and contrasts to Achilles' shield as described in book 18 of the Iliad. Achilles' shield similarly depicts a set of sweeping images in concentric circles radiating outwards from a central scene of two cities: one at war, the other at peace.
The Romans called this sort of adaptation of comedy by Livius and his immediate successors fabulae palliatae, or comoedia palliata, named from the pallium, or short cloak, worn by the actors. [18] Of Andronicus' palliata we have 6 fragments of 1 verse each and 1 title, Gladiolus , ( Little Saber ).
The three references found in Book 18 and Book 20 of the Antiquities do not appear in any other versions of Josephus' The Jewish War except for a Slavonic version of the Testimonium Flavianum (at times called Testimonium Slavonium) which surfaced in the west at the beginning of the 20th century, after its discovery in Russia at the end of the 19th century.
Barber Shop Chronicles is a play set in black barber shops in six cities on one day, against the backdrop of a football match between Chelsea and Barcelona.The play explores the African diaspora in the UK, [11] masculinity, homosexuality and religion.
Jean-Henri Fabre refers to Argiope spiders as Epeira in his 1928 book The Life of the Spider (La Vie des araignées), within the family "Epeirae". James Henry Emerton also uses the genus Epeira in his 1902 book The Common Spiders of the United States , but refers to spiders mostly now considered Araneus .