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  2. Hygieia - Wikipedia

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    Hygieia is a goddess of health (Greek: ὑγίεια – hugieia [2]), cleanliness and hygiene. Her name is the source for the word "hygiene". Hygieia is related to the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius, who is the son of the Olympian god Apollo. Hygieia is most commonly referred to as a daughter of Asclepius [3] and his wife Epione.

  3. List of Classical Greek phrases - Wikipedia

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    The word rhei (ρέι, cf. rheology) is the Greek word for "to stream"; according to Plato's Cratylus, it is related to the etymology of Rhea. πάντοτε ζητεῖν τὴν ἀλήθειαν pántote zeteῖn tḕn alḗtheian "ever seeking the truth" — Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers [24] — a characteristic of ...

  4. Category : Words and phrases derived from Greek mythology

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    Pages in category "Words and phrases derived from Greek mythology" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. Hylas - Wikipedia

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    "Hylas" is a poem by Madison Cawein, including the lines "Hylas, the Argonaut, the lad Beloved of Herakles, was I" [12] Hylas is the name of one of the two characters in George Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. He represents the materialist position against which Berkeley (through Philonous) argues.

  6. Category:Ancient Greek poems - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek epic poems (3 C, 27 P) S. Works by Sappho (13 P) Ancient Greek songs (4 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Ancient Greek poems"

  7. Ekphrasis - Wikipedia

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    The word ekphrasis, or ecphrasis, comes from the Greek for the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise, [1] often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic. It is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art , either real or imagined.

  8. List of ancient Greek poets - Wikipedia

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    Oppian or Oppianus (in Greek, Οππιανος) was the name of the authors of two (or three) didactic poems in Greek hexameters, formerly identified as one poet, but now generally regarded as two: Oppian of Corycus (or Anabarzus) in Cilicia, who flourished in the reign of Marcus Aurelius; Oppian of Apamea (or Pella) in Syria. His extant poem ...

  9. List of Greek place names - Wikipedia

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    Places of concern to Greek culture, religion or tradition, including: Greek mythology; Greek Jews, including Romaniotes and exiled Sephardim; Greco-Buddhism; Christianity until the Great Schism, and afterwards the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Rite, etc. Greek Muslims, and those outside Greece who are Greek-speaking or ethnic Greek

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