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Corinth (British English: / ˈ k ɒr ɪ n θ / KORR-inth, American English: / ˈ k ɔːr ɪ n θ /; Ancient Greek: Κόρινθος Korinthos; Doric Greek: Ϙόρινθος; Latin: Corinthus) was a city-state on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnese peninsula to the mainland of Greece, roughly halfway between Athens and Sparta.
Corinth (/ ˈ k ɒr ɪ n θ / KORR-inth; Greek: Κόρινθος, romanized: Kórinthos, Modern Greek pronunciation: [ˈkorinθos]) is a municipality in Corinthia in Greece.The successor to the ancient city of Corinth, it is a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, which is located in south-central Greece.
The painting is listed on the German Lost Art Foundation Lostart Database [19] and on the Monuments Men Foundation's "Most Wanted List" of stolen art. [ 20 ] In June 2021, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels agreed to return Corinth's 1913 Blumenstilleben (Still Life with Flowers) to the heir of Gustav and Emma Mayer , who ...
The Greek word ἐσόπτρου, esoptrou (genitive; nominative: ἔσοπτρον, esoptron), here translated "glass", is ambiguous, possibly referring to a mirror or a lens. Influenced by Strong's Concordance, many modern translations conclude that this word refers specifically to a mirror. [53] Example English language translations include:
There are two main types of word art: [2] One uses words or phrases because of their ideological meaning, their status as an icon, or their use in well-known advertising slogans; in this type, the content is of paramount importance, and is seen in some of the work of Barbara Kruger, On Kawara and Jenny Holzer's projection artwork called "For the City" (2005) in Manhattan.
Zante currants, Corinth raisins, Corinthian raisins or outside the United States simply currants, are raisins of the small, sweet, seedless grape cultivar Black Corinth (Vitis vinifera). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The name comes from the Anglo-French phrase "raisins de Corinthe" (grapes of Corinth ) [ 5 ] and the Ionian island of Zakynthos (Zante), which was ...
ASCII art of a fish. ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII).
Corinthian or Corinthians may refer to: . Several Pauline epistles, books of the New Testament of the Bible: . First Epistle to the Corinthians; Second Epistle to the Corinthians