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  2. Nemesis - Wikipedia

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    Nemesis on a brass sestertius of Hadrian, struck at Rome AD 136. Nemesis was one of several tutelary deities of the drill-ground (as Nemesis campestris). Modern scholarship offers little support for the once-prevalent notion that arena personnel such as gladiators, venatores and bestiarii were personally or professionally dedicated to her cult.

  3. Nemesis (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Nemesis, character created by author Jeremy Robinson; Nemesis, one of the main antagonists from the video game Fire Emblem: Three Houses; Nemesis, one of the main antagonists from the video game Yandere Simulator; Others. Nemesis, a fictional planet in the Sailor Moon Japanese adventure series; Nemesis, an elite German squadron in Secret ...

  4. Rhamnous - Wikipedia

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    A new temple to both the goddesses Themis and Nemesis was built over the remains. Others argue that the temple was destroyed towards the close of the Peloponnesian War by the Persian allies of Sparta. [8] Construction of the larger temple to Nemesis [9] began around 460–450 BC and continued until 430–420. It was probably erected in honour ...

  5. Adrasteia - Wikipedia

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    Adrasteia was explicitly identified with Nemesis by Antimachus of Colophon (late fifth century BC). [46] The geographer Strabo quotes Antimachus as saying: There is a great goddess Nemesis, who has obtained as her portion all these things from the Blessed.

  6. Hubris - Wikipedia

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    Illustration for John Milton's Paradise Lost by Gustave Doré (1866). The spiritual descent of Lucifer into Satan, one of the most famous examples of hubris.. Hubris (/ ˈ h juː b r ɪ s /; from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris) 'pride, insolence, outrage'), or less frequently hybris (/ ˈ h aɪ b r ɪ s /), [1] describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride [2] or dangerous ...

  7. The year in review: Influential people who died in 2024 - AOL

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    O.J. Simpson, Quincy Jones, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett Jr. and Faith Ringgold were among the many influential and noteworthy people who died in 2024.

  8. Invidia - Wikipedia

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    Invidia, defined as uneasy emotion denied by the shepherd Melipoeus in Virgil's Eclogue 1. [12]In Latin, invidia is the Greek personification of Nemesis and Phthonus. [citation needed] Invidia can be for literary purposes a goddess and Roman equivalent to Nemesis in Greek mythology [citation needed] as it received cultus, notably at her sanctuary around Rhamnous north of Marathon, Greece.

  9. Nemesis (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Nemesis (Greek: νέμεσις) is a philosophical term first created by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics. The term means one who feels pain caused by others' undeserved success. The term means one who feels pain caused by others' undeserved success.