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Deputy Minister for Culture. In office. 13 October 1993 – 16 March 1994. Athanasios " Thanos " Mikroutsikos (Greek: Αθανάσιος (Θάνος) Μικρούτσικος; 13 April 1947 – 28 December 2019) was a Greek composer and politician. He is considered one of the most important composers of the recent Greek musical scene. [1]
Apollo, God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry and the Fine Arts with Urania, Muse of Astronomy(1798) by Charles Meynier. Apollo[a]is one of the Olympian deitiesin classical Greekand Roman religionand Greekand Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sunand light ...
The Roman deities most widely known today are those the Romans identified with Greek counterparts, integrating Greek myths, iconography, and sometimes religious practices into Roman culture, including Latin literature, Roman art, and religious life as it was experienced throughout the Roman Empire. Many of the Romans' own gods remain obscure ...
Musical system of ancient Greece. The musical system of ancient Greece evolved over a period of more than 500 years from simple scales of tetrachords, or divisions of the perfect fourth, into several complex systems encompassing tetrachords and octaves, as well as octave scales divided into seven to thirteen intervals. [1]
Music was almost universally present in ancient Greek society, from marriages, funerals, and religious ceremonies to theatre, folk music, and the ballad-like reciting of epic poetry. This played an integral role in the lives of ancient Greeks. There are some fragments of actual Greek musical notation, [1][2] many literary references, depictions ...
Hercules Magusanus. Hercules(/ˈhɜːrkjʊˌliːz/, US: /-kjə-/)[2]is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divineheroHeracles, son of Jupiterand the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
Pluto (mythology) In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pluto (Greek: Πλούτων, Ploutōn) was the ruler of the Greek underworld. The earlier name for the god was Hades, which became more common as the name of the underworld itself. Pluto represents a more positive concept of the god who presides over the afterlife.
t. e. Jupiter (Latin: Iūpiter or Iuppiter, [ 14 ] from Proto-Italic *djous "day, sky" + *patēr "father", thus " sky father " Greek: Δίας or Ζεύς), [ 15 ] also known as Jove (gen. Iovis [ˈjɔwɪs]), is the god of the sky and thunder, and king of the gods in ancient Roman religion and mythology. Jupiter was the chief deity of Roman ...