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  2. Clothing in ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Small gold ornaments would be sewn onto their clothing and would glitter as they moved. [3] Common designs on jewelry in ancient Greece included plants, animals and figures from Greek mythology. [4] Gold and silver were the most common mediums for jewelry. [91]

  3. Glauce - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Glauce (/ ˈ ɡ l ɔː s iː /; Ancient Greek: Γλαυκή Glaukê means 'blue-gray' or 'gleaming'), Latin Glauca, refers to different people: Glauce, an Arcadian nymph, one of the nurses of Zeus. She and the other nurses were represented on the altar of Athena Alea at Tegea. [1]

  4. Seneca mythology - Wikipedia

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    Some important figures in Seneca mythology are: Eagentci (Awëha:'i—Fertile Earth [2]), whose name translates as "ancient-bodied one", is the Earth-mother, or First Mother. Her Huron name is Atahensic. Djieien was a man-sized spider who survived most attacks because its heart was buried underground. He appears in the tale "Hagowanen and ...

  5. Phaedra (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    During his life, Seneca (4–5 B.C.E.–65 C.E.) was famous for his writings on Stoic philosophy and rhetoric and became "one of the most influential men in Rome" when his student, Nero, was named emperor in 54 C.E. [5] Phaedra is thought to be one of Seneca's earlier works, most likely written before 54 C.E. [3] Historians generally agree that ...

  6. Oedipus (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    Oedipus is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragic play with Greek subject) of c. 1061 lines of verse that was written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca at some time during the 1st century AD. It is a retelling of the story of Oedipus , which is better known through the play Oedipus Rex by the Athenian playwright, Sophocles .

  7. Thyestes - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Thyestes (pronounced / θ aɪ ˈ ɛ s t iː z /, Greek: Θυέστης, [tʰyéstɛːs]) was a king of Olympia. Thyestes and his brother, Atreus, were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother, Chrysippus, in their desire for the throne of Olympia.

  8. Theia - Wikipedia

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    Early accounts gave her a primal origin, said to be the eldest daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). [4] She is thus the sister of the Titans (Oceanus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Coeus, Themis, Rhea, Phoebe, Tethys, Mnemosyne, Cronus, and sometimes of Dione), the Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires, the Giants, the Meliae, the Erinyes, and is the half-sister of Aphrodite (in some versions ...

  9. Troades (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    The victorious Greeks have gathered the rich spoils of Troy upon the shore, among these the Trojan women who await their lot to be assigned to their Greek lords and taken to the cities of their foes. But now the ghost of Achilles has risen from the tomb, and demanded that Polyxena be sacrificed to him before the Greeks shall be allowed to sail ...