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The Boxer at Rest, also known as the Terme Boxer, Seated Boxer, Defeated Boxer, or Boxer of the Quirinal, is a bronze sculpture, a Hellenistic Greek original, [1] of a sitting nude boxer at rest, still wearing his himantes (Ancient Greek: ἱμάντες, romanized: himántes, plural of ἱμάς, himás, 'a leathern strap or thong' [2]), a type of leather hand-wrap.
Apollonius duels and defeats Darrow, but Sevro rescues Darrow and Cassius. They flee Venus with Aurae, who asks Sevro to lead the Rim's Daughters of Athena. Lysander is celebrated as Mercury's ruler, but Atalantia orders him to Earth and captures his mentor, Gilrastes.
"Apollonius's Boxer at Rest". Smarthistory at Khan Academy. Sean Hemingway, "The Boxer: an ancient masterpiece comes to the Met", also calls it "The Boxer at Rest", for example in fig. 1. If you have access, search for it on ArtStor too, and you'll find him called the "Seated Boxer" or (once) "Pugilist in Repose".
Apollonius now gathered together Gentiles and a large force from Samaria to fight against Israel. When Judas learned of it, he went out to meet him, and he defeated and killed him. Many were wounded and fell, and the rest fled. Then they seized their spoils; and Judas took the sword of Apollonius, and used it in battle for the rest of his life.
12,000 years after their last clash with mankind, the Shadow Angels return to attack the human cities and kidnap its inhabitants. Looking for the reincarnation of Apollonius, a Shadow Angel who turned against his own kind to protect the humans, Silvia de Alisia has an encounter with Apollo, a reckless and animalistic orphan who somehow manages to unlock the true potential of mankind's greatest ...
Apollonius was born into a respected and wealthy aristocratic Greek household. [6] [7] His primary biographer, Philostratus the Elder (c. 170 – c. 247), places him c. 3 BC – c. AD 97, however, the Roman historian Cassius Dio (c. AD 155 – c. 235) writes that Apollonius was in his 40s or 50s in the 90s AD, from which the scholar Maria Dzielska gives a birth year of about AD 40.
Apollonius piously refuses to describe the sacred rites of the Cabiri (1.919–21). Cyzicus Peninsula (Bear Mountain) Next port of call after passing through the Hellespont at night. Apollonius refers to the Hellespont as "Athamas' daughter" (1.927), an allusion to its well-known mythical association with Helle and the Golden Fleece.
Apollonius was a pupil of the sophists Adrianus and Chrestus. He distinguished himself by his forensic eloquence, and taught rhetoric at Athens at the same time with Heracleides . He was an opponent of Heracleides, and with the assistance of his associates he succeeded in expelling him from the chair of rhetoric in Athens.