Sentences with phrase «after ancient greek»

In a marriage of science and art reminiscent of Cape Farewell, Lovelock took the advice of the novelist William Golding and named his idea after the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth, Gaia.

The curator's accompanying essay describes the exhibition as «about everything that is happening right now», and named after the Ancient Greek and Roman mnemonic device using spatial memory, or «memory palace» as a method for efficient recall.

The PlayStation 4 additions are Transistor; the acclaimed sci - fi RPG from the creators of Bastion; and Apotheon; a 2D action game styled after ancient Greek mythology and pottery.

Perseus is a constellation in the northern sky and was named after the ancient Greek hero Perseus, who saved Andromeda and killed Medusa the Gorgon monster.

Yet we are all aware of the Oedipal conflicts and complexes, named after the ancient Greek myth of Oedipus, the king who fell in love with his mother after killing his father.

Sotheby's plans to auction the «Apollo and Artemis Diamonds» — a fancy vivid blue stone, and a fancy intense pink stone, each named after an Ancient Greek god — separately as individual lots, at its sale in Geneva on May 16.

Not exact matches

After his death, he was resurrected as a god, becoming the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek religion.

Volume 1, Classical Philosophy, covers ancient Greek philosophy up to just after the death of Aristotle.

Demotics is written now in ancient greek letters that have developed when romans took over Egypt after Cleopatra's suicide.

If there were any gods that cared about us in any way they certainly wouldn't just remain silent after all this supposed activity 1000's of years ago as told by the Hindu's, Jew, s Christians, ancient Romans and Greeks, etc..

future civilizations will study our society after it crumbles, and our policy shaping, thought controlling religious views will be lumped into the same category as the ancient greek myths, norse gods, and native american shamanism.

Known as Sporting Club, US Phocéenne, and Football Club de Marseille in the first five years after its founding, the club adopted the name Olympique de Marseille in 1899, in honor of the anniversary of Marseille's founding by Greeks from Phocaea some 25 centuries earlier, with the name Olympique, coming from ancient Olympic Games and the colours (reversed flag of Greece) chosen to represent the club.

If you are fond of ancient Greek mythology, name your daughter after one of the Greek goddesses.

This originates from the Ancient Greek word Doulos, which means a servant who is trained to assist families before, during, or after childbirth.

Team members have dubbed the newly described predator Pentecopterus after the penteconter, a type of ancient Greek warship that roughly mirrors the creature's body shape (artist's reconstruction shown above).

He dubbed it Georgium Sidus — Latin for «George's Star» — after his sponsor King George III, but other astronomers protested, and it was eventually given the name Uranus, sticking with the usual nomenclature of ancient Greek / Roman gods.

The star is so bright that it was given its name to mean «anti-Ares,» likely because its reddish color seemed to oppose that of the shiny planet Mars, named after Ares, the ancient Greek god of war.

The woven chain leather strap boasts it's feminine style and the Ancient Greek charm makes it one - of - a-kind because it will be discontinued forever after this collection ends.

This new exhibition explores how a modern master transformed his artistic vision after witnessing the ancient Greek sculptures of the British Museum.

In Knossos (1993), named after an ancient city on the Greek island of Crete, fragile, glimmering yellow lines rise and branch out against a night - black ground, a coiling red flower inside; phosphorescent white stars float by in a fading arc.

Köken Ergun studied acting at the İstanbul University and after completing his postgraduate diploma degree in Ancient Greek Literature, began working with American theater director Robert Wilson.

If one was to fully appreciate John Torreano's recent exhibition «Scapes,» it helped to be familiar with the ancient Greek myth of Orion, the hunter, who was immortalized as a constellation by Artemis (sister of Apollo and the object of Orion's love) after she killed him accidentally.

After a trip to Greece in 1951, Moore adopted the use of drapery to emphasise the form of his figures as inspired by ancient Greek art.

Koons's bravura handling of granite and bronze, the materials of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, reflects the reactionary attitude toward materials that cost Marcia Tucker, the founder of the New Museum, her job at the Whitney in 1977 after she exhibited Richard Tuttle's sculptures made out of wire and rags.

The collages, watercolors and prints in the exhibition are based on Homer's epic poem «The Odyssey,» the ancient story of the Greek hero Odysseus's journey home to Ithaca after fighting in the Trojan War.

Even though the scenery paintings date back to the ancient Greeks and the Romans, after the fall of the Roman Empire nature scenes became just a backdrop for religious stories or a mere setting for human activity.

After primitive forms of cave painting, figurine sculptures and other types of ancient art, there occured the golden era of Greek art and other schools of Classical Antiquity.

It was from the ancient Greeks, after all, that we inherited the problem.

Themed around ancient Greek Mythology, all GAMDIAS products are named after Greek gods.