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Galen's Greek name Γαληνός (Galēnós) comes from the adjective γαληνός (galēnós) 'calm'. [28] Galen's Latin name (Aelius or Claudius) implies he had Roman citizenship. [29] Galen describes his early life in On the affections of the mind. He was born in September 129 AD. [6]
Galen Erso, in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; Galen Kord, in the Transformers universe; Galen Marek, aka Starkiller, a Dark Jedi in the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed project; Galen Tyrol, in the re-imagined TV series Battlestar Galactica; Galen, a character in Crusade; Galen, Dr. Zaius' assistant in the Planet of the Apes TV series
(Greek mythology) Girdle of Hippolyta, a girdle that was a symbol of Hippolyta's power over the Amazons, and given to her by Ares. Heracles' 9th Labor was to retrieve it. (Greek mythology) Tyet, the ancient Egyptian symbol of the goddess Isis. It seems to be called "the Knot of Isis" because it resembles a knot used to secure the garments that ...
J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 The Hobbit and 1954–55 The Lord of the Rings novels inspired George Lucas's creation of Star Wars in 1977. An early draft for the 1977 Star Wars film is said to have included an exchange of dialogue between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker taken directly from the conversation between Gandalf and Bilbo in Chapter 1 of The Hobbit, where Gandalf/Kenobi says "Good morning!"
Galen calls him ἄριστος ἰατρός, [1] and Pliny says [2] he was "e primis medentium," and relates [3] his cure of Considia, the daughter of Marcus Servilius. He wrote quite a few pharmaceutical works in Greek iambic verse, of which there only remain the titles and some extracts preserved by Galen .
Antipater (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίπατρος) was a Greek physician and contemporary of Galen at Rome in the 2nd century AD. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Galen gave an account of Antipater's death and the morbid symptoms that preceded it.
Clothing in ancient Greece refers to clothing starting from the Aegean bronze age (3000 BCE) to the Hellenistic period (31 BCE). [1] Clothing in ancient Greece included a wide variety of styles but primarily consisted of the chiton , peplos , himation , and chlamys . [ 2 ]
They were soon joined by local attorney Brett Powers, and together they comprise the original three "Overlords" of the Krewe. Chewbacchus marched for the first time during Mardi Gras 2011 near the Uptown parade route on "Bacchus" Sunday as a satiric mashup of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, and Chewbacca, the Wookiee from Star Wars. [5]