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First woman may refer to: Eve, the first woman in Abrahamic religions Aclima, Luluwa or Calmana, in Abrahamic traditions, the first woman born; Lilith, the first independent woman created and demonic figure in Judaic mythology, supposedly the primordial she-demon and alternatively first wife of Adam; Lucy, an early female australopithecine that ...
The Pandora myth first appeared in lines 560–612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony (c. 8th–7th centuries BCE), without ever giving the woman a name. After humans received the stolen gift of fire from Prometheus, an angry Zeus decides to give humanity a punishing gift to compensate for the boon they had been given.
Lucy Goodison (born 1945) is a British writer who has combined work as an archaeologist of the prehistoric Aegean, with involvement in the practice and teaching of body psychotherapy and engagement with issues of social justice. [1]
Lucy and the Diamonds, antagonists in the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band based around the song; Lucy Carrigan, a main character in the film Across the Universe based loosely around the song; Lucy the Diamond Fairy, a character in the Rainbow Magic book franchise named after the song; Lucy Adams, a character in the TV series Not ...
Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 1850 – 15 April 1928) was a British classical scholar and linguist.With Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, Harrison is one of the founders of modern studies in Ancient Greek religion and mythology.
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BCE) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
A papyrus fragment containing the beginning of the Atlantid Electra's family from book 3 or 4 (Cat. fr. 177 = P.Oxy. XI 1359 fr. 2, second century CE, Oxyrhynchus). The Catalogue of Women (Ancient Greek: Γυναικῶν Κατάλογος, romanized: Gunaikôn Katálogos)—also known as the Ehoiai (Ancient Greek: Ἠοῖαι, romanized: Ēoîai, Ancient: [ɛː.ôi̯.ai̯]) [a] —is a ...
Lucy · Sun · Earth · 52246 Donaldjohanson · 3548 Eurybates · 21900 Orus · 617 Patroclus Eurybates is planned to be visited by the Lucy spacecraft which launched in 2021. [ 22 ] The flyby is scheduled for 12 August 2027, and will approach the asteroid to a distance of 1,000 km (620 mi) at a relative velocity of 5.8 km/s (13,000 mph) and a ...