• In Greek mythology, Anax (Ancient Greek: Ἄναξ; from earlier ϝάναξ, wánax) was a king of Anactoria (Miletus). He was the son of Gaea (Earth) and father...
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    Anax (Greek: ἄναξ; from earlier ϝάναξ, wánax) is an ancient Greek word for "tribal chief, lord (military) leader". It is one of the two Greek titles traditionally...
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    Poseidon was identified with wanax from the Homeric era to classical Greece. (anax). The title didn't mean only king, but also protector. Wanax had chthonic...
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  • Caunus, and Byblis. Asterius, a king of Anactoria (Miletus) and son of Anax, son of Gaia. He was a slain by the hero Miletus who named after himself...
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    Gaia (redirect from Gaia mythology)
    In Greek mythology, Gaia (/ˈɡeɪə, ˈɡaɪə/; Ancient Greek: Γαῖα, romanized: Gaîa, a poetic form of Γῆ (Gê), meaning 'land' or 'earth'), also spelled Gaea...
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    In Greek and Roman mythology, the Giants, also called Gigantes (Greek: Γίγαντες, Gígantes, singular: Γίγας, Gígas), were a race of great strength and...
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  • that the hero Miletus founded the city only after slaying Asterius, son of Anax; and that the region known as Miletus was originally called 'Anactoria'....
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  • Anamnesis Ananke Anaphlystus Anapus Anathyrosis Anax Anax (mythology) Anaxagoras Anaxagoras (mythology) Anaxagoras of Aegina Anaxander Anaxandra Anaxandridas...
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    Asterius (giant) (category Mythology of Heracles)
    hide, but he names him Gorgon. Pausanias also tells of Asterius, a son of Anax who was the son of Earth (the goddess Gaia), buried on the island of Asterius...
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    mountains on top of each other. Otus or Otos (Ότος). Ephialtes (Εφιάλτης). Anax (Αναξ) was a giant of the island of Lade near Miletos in Lydia, Anatolia...
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  • Jeremiah 47:5), identifies the Anakim with Anax, the giant ruler of the Anactorians in Greek mythology. In Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick (Chapter...
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    absence. The narrative language depersonalizes Odysseus as 'his master' (anax), using this periphrastic construction in order to present the narrative...
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    and Ancient Greek anax which means "master". The specific aedon is from Ancient Greek aedon and means nightingale. In Greek mythology, Aëdon was changed...
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    giant named Asterius, son of Anax, after whom the region known as Miletus was called 'Anactoria', "place of Anax". Anax in Greek means "the king" and...
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  • Euryanax (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυάναξ, Euryánax') "eury" meaning wandering, and "anax" meaning king in Dorian, was a son of the Spartan prince Dorieus of the Agiad...
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    ruled by hereditary families under the overlordship of the High King (ἄναξ, ánax) of Mycenae. Hardly any of them are Dorian.[citation needed] The Ionian Greeks...
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  • Dimorphodon ("two shaped teeth") -nax, -anax-: Pronunciation: /nax/, /ænax/. Origin: Ancient Greek: ἄναξ (ánax). Meaning: king. Examples: Lythronax ("gore...
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  • Jed, Tai-Kun, Xiao Hei Wang, Jagmohan, T.M., Mike, Porphyrogene, '`Aναξ (Anax). Twenty-one years old. Dominic Seneschal a.k.a. Canis Domini, Hound of the...
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  • Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). Smith, William (ed.). "Anax" . A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company...
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  • Jed, Tai-Kun, Xiao Hei Wang, Jagmohan, T.M., Mike, Porphyrogene, '`Aναξ (Anax). Twenty-one years old. Dominic Seneschal a.k.a. Canis Domini, Hound of the...
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    BBC Northern Ireland is available as are a series of cartoons on Manx mythology. Most significant is a 13-part DVD series Manx translation of the award-winning...
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    represented by a number of officials. In the Homeric poems, the word form is anax (ἄναξ), often translated in English as "lord". Some inscriptions with a list...
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  • Jed, Tai-Kun, Xiao Hei Wang, Jagmohan, T.M., Mike, Porphyrogene, '`Aναξ (Anax). Twenty-one years old. Ⓥ Dominic Seneschal a.k.a. Canis Domini, Hound of...
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  • Jed, Tai-Kun, Xiao Hei Wang, Jagmohan, T.M., Mike, Porphyrogene, '`Aναξ (Anax). Twenty-one years old. Dominic Seneschal a.k.a. Canis Domini, Hound of the...
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    Athenians. When Archilochus used the word tyrant, it was synonymous with anax (an archaic Greek word meaning 'king'). Parker dates the first use of the...
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    both fish and reptilian traits present in North Eastern Italian mythologies, and from anax, Greek for a lord, a "tribal and military leader". The specific...
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  • as well as Bennett Lake itself, also had borne the Tlingit name Ch'akúx Anax Dul.adi Yé [Place to Pack a Skin Canoe Over]. The Tagish name for Bennett...
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