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Greek text available from the same website. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Harmony is a modern English name taken from the vocabulary word and from the musical term harmony which is ultimately derived from the Greek word harmonia. Harmonia was the Greek goddess of harmony and concord. [1] [2] It is also an English surname. Harmony before Matrimony, an October 25th 1805 caricature by James Gillray depicting a musical ...
Early Greek treatises describe three interrelated concepts that are related to the later, medieval idea of "mode": (1) scales (or "systems"), (2) tonos – pl. tonoi – (the more usual term used in medieval theory for what later came to be called "mode"), and (3) harmonia (harmony) – pl. harmoniai – this third term subsuming the ...
In ancient Roman religion, Concordia (means "concord" or "harmony" in Latin) is the goddess who embodies agreement in marriage and society. Her Greek equivalent is usually regarded as Harmonia , with musical harmony a metaphor for an ideal of social concord or entente in the political discourse of the Republican era .
The term harmony derives from the Greek ἁρμονία harmonia, meaning "joint, agreement, concord", [7] [8] from the verb ἁρμόζω harmozō, "(Ι) fit together, join". [9] Aristoxenus wrote a work entitled Elements of Harmony , which is thought the first work in European history written on the subject of harmony. [ 10 ]
Name Description Arcadia: A vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature, derived from the Greek province Arkadia which dates to antiquity. Asphodel Meadows: The section of the underworld where ordinary souls were sent to live after death. Atlantis: The legendary (and almost archetypal) lost continent that was supposed to have sunk into the ...
In Greek mythology, Harmonia (/ h ɑːr ˈ m oʊ n i ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἁρμονία means 'harmony, concord') was a nymph, perhaps a naiad or dryad, in the glens of the Akmonian wood. She was the lover of Ares of whom she bore the warrior-women race of the Amazons. [1] [2]
Polynices offering Eriphyle the necklace of Harmonia; Attic red-figure oenochoe ca. 450–440 BC. Louvre museum. The Necklace of Harmonia, also called the Necklace of Eriphyle, was a fabled object in Greek mythology that, according to legend, brought great misfortune to all of its wearers or owners, who were primarily queens and princesses of the ill-fated House of Thebes.