Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Sleep of Endymion by Anne-Louis Girodet (1791), Musée du Louvre, Paris. In Greek mythology, Endymion[a] (/ ɛnˈdɪmiən /; Ancient Greek: Ἐνδυμίων, gen.: Ἐνδυμίωνος) was variously a handsome Aeolian shepherd, hunter, or king who was said to rule and live at Olympia in Elis. [1] He was also venerated and said to reside ...
Selene is the Greek proper name for the Moon, [157] and 580 Selene, a minor planet in the asteroid belt, is also named after this goddess. [158] Scientific study of the Moon, particularly lunar geology, is sometimes referred to as selenology, and its practitioners selenologists, to distinguish from Earth-based study.
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (/ ˌædoʊˈneɪ.ɪs /) is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and best-known works. [1] The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 ...
Endymion, in botany a synonym of the bluebell genus Hyacinthoides. Turanana endymion, the binomial Latin name for the odd-spot blue butterfly. Endymion (crater), on the Moon. HMS Endymion, any of four British warships. USS Endymion (ARL-9) Endymion (yacht) Endymion, an Armstrong Whitworth Ensign aircraft.
Hyperion. The Hyperion Cantos is a series of science fiction novels by Dan Simmons. The title was originally used for the collection of the first pair of books in the series, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, [1][2] and later came to refer to the overall storyline, including Endymion, The Rise of Endymion, and a number of short stories. [3][4 ...
Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818 by Taylor and Hessey of Fleet Street in London. John Keats dedicated this poem to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known as heroic couplets).
Paeon[pronunciation?] or Paion (Ancient Greek: Παίων, gen.: Παίονος), in Greek mythology, was an Elean prince as son of King Endymion, and brother of Epeius, Aetolus, Eurycyda [1] and possibly Naxos. [2] From him, the district of Paeonia, on the Axius river in Macedonia, was believed to have derived its name. [3]
Endymion. Endymion is the third science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons, first published in 1996. Part of his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe, it centers on the new characters Aenea and Raul Endymion, and was well received, like its predecessors Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion.