Alazṓn (Ancient Greek: ἀλαζών) is one of three stock characters in comedy of the theatre of ancient Greece. He is the opponent of the eirôn. The alazṓn...
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Leiolopisma alazon, also known as the Lauan ground skink or Ono-i-Lau ground skink, is a species of skink found on Lau Islands of Fiji. The species is...
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USS Lunga Point (redirect from USS Alazon Bay (CVE-94))
USS Lunga Point (CVE-94), originally named Alazon Bay, was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. It was named for Lunga Point on...
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Alazon is an extinct town in Elko County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Alazon was a non-agency station at the east end of the combined Southern Pacific...
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Acremodontina alazon is a species of sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochaclididae, the false top snails. The height of the shell...
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Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Alazon Bay for Alazon Bay in Texas. USS Alazon Bay (ACV-55), was a Casablanca-class escort carrier...
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buffoon (bômolochus), the ironist (eirōn), and the imposter or boaster (alazṓn). All three are central to Aristophanes' Old Comedy. By the time the Roman...
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USS Casablanca (redirect from USS Alazon Bay (ACV-55))
transferred under lend-lease in Casablanca's place. Therefore, she was renamed Alazon Bay, a misspelling of Alazan Bay, located in Kleberg County, Texas, as part...
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Monster girl Skeleton Slime Swamp monster Vampires Zombie Nazi zombies Other Alazon Archenemy Folk devil Igor Masked villain Miser Vecchio (wealthy old men...
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figure in Western culture since at least Aristotle's discussion of the alazon. Harold Bloom describes expressionist art as attempting to "intensify the...
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appeared in the Rheinische Museum, of which he became editor in 1876) include Alazon (1882), Kolax (1885) and Agrockos (1885). Emma Ribbeck, ed., Otto Ribbeck...
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long-suffering farmer's wife.'" Stock characters can be further identified as an alazon, the "impostor and self-deceiving braggart" in a story, or an eiron, a "self-derogatory...
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construction began. Alazon Bay US Navy CVE-55 Casablanca Escort carrier CATOBAR — Renamed Casablanca 1943 after construction began. Alazon Bay US Navy CVE-94...
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intelligence than he has—and so ultimately triumphs over his opposite, the alazon, a vain-glorious braggart. Although initially synonymous with lying, in...
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endemic to the Mascarenes.(Austin & Arnold 2006) Example species Leiolopisma alazon Zug, 1985 - Lauan ground skink, Ono-i-Lau ground skink Leiolopisma ceciliae...
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hypocrisy of the Jew.' No one in the first century would have identified ho alazon with Judaism. That popular interpretation depends upon anachronistically...
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down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Fate Casablanca (ex-Ameer, ex- Alazon Bay) CVE-55 7 3 November 1942 5 April 1943 8 July 1943 10 June 1946 Sold...
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Monster girl Skeleton Slime Swamp monster Vampires Zombie Nazi zombies Other Alazon Archenemy Folk devil Igor Masked villain Miser Vecchio (wealthy old men...
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Monster girl Skeleton Slime Swamp monster Vampires Zombie Nazi zombies Other Alazon Archenemy Folk devil Igor Masked villain Miser Vecchio (wealthy old men...
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Robbia, one of the main characters of the French animated series Code Lyoko. Alazon Bomphiologia Flyting Hubris One-upmanship Puffery Self-promotion Virtue...
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misrepresent or exaggerate their accomplishments. The classical archetypes are Alazon and Miles Gloriosus, with the latter being a boastful soldier. A later example...
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miles gloriosus ("boastful soldier") from ancient Roman theater, or the alazon of ancient Greek comedy. Chauvin was originally popularized by Cogniard...
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The eirōn usually succeeded by bringing down his braggart opponent (the alazṓn "boaster") by understating his own abilities. The eiron lends his name to...
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Alazon had infiltrated the castle and intends to capture Yuri for his power. At that very moment, Berias appears and reveals himself to be Alazon's brother...
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Densetsu Meremanoid (Rūsumirā) 2000 Hidamari no Ki (Geisha) Kyo Kara Maoh! (Alazon) 2001 I My Me! Strawberry Eggs (Fukiko Kuzuha) Kiddy Grade (Mrs. Padushka)...
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Smirnov considers himself a misogynist. They are both stock examples of alazons: figures made ludicrous by pretending to be more than they actually are...
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slit-eared skink (Gongylomorphus bojerii) Ono-i-lau ground skink (Leiolopisma alazon) Greater robust fine-lined slider (Lerista allanae) Kopéto smooth skink...
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USS Alaskan (ID-4542) USNS Alatna (T-AOG-81/T-AOT-81) USS Alava Bay (CVE-103) USS Alazon Bay (ACV-55, ACV-94/CVE-94) USS Albacore (SP-751, SS-218, AGSS-569) USS Albany...
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audience address. In modern Greek, the word refers to a foul-mouthed person. Alazôn Eirôn Carlson (1993, 23) and Janko (1987, 45, 170). Carlson, Marvin. 1993...
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(likely the modern Iori); and it seems to be the same as the "Alazonius" or "Alazon" of Strabo and Pliny which fell into the Cambyses just above its confluence...
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