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    Olympic Iliad, also known as Pasta Tube, is a 1984 steel sculpture by Alexander Liberman, located in the lawn surrounding the Space Needle at Seattle...
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    The Iliad (/ˈɪliəd/; Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς, romanized: Iliás, Attic Greek: [iː.li.ás]; "[a poem] about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek...
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  • 1998. The album art for Bricolage depicts part of Alexander Liberman's Olympic Iliad sculpture, located at the base of the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington...
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    The ancient Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ta Olympia) were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one...
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    Twelve Olympians (redirect from Olympic god)
    refused as it would mean one of the original twelve being "cast out". In the Iliad, the goddess Themis, who is listed among the twelve Titans, dwells on Olympus...
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    Trojan War (section Iliad)
    through many works of Greek literature, most notably Homer's Iliad. The core of the Iliad (Books II – XXIII) describes a period of four days and two nights...
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    Mirall The Mitt Moses (2/3) Naramore Fountain Nine Spaces Nine Trees Olympic Iliad The People's Wall Pioneer Square totem pole Prefontaine Fountain Rachel...
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    Zeus (category Deities in the Iliad)
    At the oracle of Dodona, his consort was said to be Dione, by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite. According to the Theogony, Zeus' first...
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    the greatest of all the Greek warriors. The central character in Homer's Iliad, he was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia and famous...
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    examples of Greek and Roman epic poetry including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid. In Iliad 22, Achilles is seeking to avenge the death of Patroclus...
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  • "Athens Olympics close, and NBC cashes in". 30 August 2004. This quote was printed as is from the Media Guide. The actual quote from the Iliad is commonly...
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    (1979), New Haven, Connecticut Stargazer (1983), San Diego, California Olympic Iliad (1984), Seattle, Washington Faith (1984), Jerusalem, Israel Galaxy (1985)...
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    Ares (category Deities in the Iliad)
    4324/9781315812755 Iliad 5.830–834, 5.590–605, 21.410–414. Iliad 5.711–769, 5.780–834, 5.855–864. Iliad 15.110–128, 20.20–29, 21.391–408. Iliad 4.436f, and 13...
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    Hephaestus (category Deities in the Iliad)
    the daughter of Zeus (Iliad 3.374, 20.105; Odyssey 8.308, 320) and Dione (Iliad 5.370–71), see Gantz, pp. 99–100. Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation...
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    Odysseus (section The Iliad)
    Archived 12 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Iliad 2. Iliad 9. Iliad 7. Iliad 10. Iliad 19. Iliad 23. D. Gary Miller (2014 ), Ancient Greek Dialects...
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    Hera (category Deities in the Iliad)
    (2007) "Indoeuropean poetry and myth" 174-175 Homer, Iliad 19.95ff. Iliad, ii. 781-783) The Iliad by Homer - Project Gutenberg Bachofen, Mutterrecht 1861...
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    days of Heracles". Among his greatest feats was killing the Chimera of the Iliad, a monster that Homer depicted with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a...
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    role to his father and causes disorder in battle.[citation needed] In the Iliad, he accompanied his father into battle along with the goddess Eris (discord)...
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    Turtle (2021), Michiko Tanaka Naramore Fountain Nine Spaces Nine Trees Olympic Iliad Pioneer Square totem pole Prefontaine Fountain Rachel The Red Popsicle...
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    Homer's heroes participate in athletic competitions to honor the dead. In the Iliad there are chariot races, boxing, wrestling, a foot race, as well as fencing...
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     12.51 Strabo, 8.3.30. Compare with Macrobius, Saturnalia 5.23. Homer, Iliad 1.528–530. John Grimes Younger, Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z, p...
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    Athena (category Deities in the Iliad)
    resulted in the beginning of the Trojan War. She plays an active role in the Iliad, in which she assists the Achaeans and, in the Odyssey, she is the divine...
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    He is a minor character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad. Aeneas receives full treatment in Roman mythology, most extensively in...
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  • Augeas: Homer, Iliad 2. 615 ff (trans. Murray) (Greek epic poetry C8th BC) Homer, Iliad 2. 625 ff Homer, Iliad 11. 696 ff Homer, Iliad 11. 737 ff Telegony...
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    Thetis (category Deities in the Iliad)
    stream of Okeanos around us went on forever with its foam and its murmur" (Iliad 18.369). Thetis is not successful in her role protecting and nurturing a...
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    Hypnos (category Deities in the Iliad)
    Iliad 16.672 Hesiod, Theogony 755-766 Homer, Iliad 14.260–265 Homer, Iliad 14.268–276 Homer, Iliad 14.154–250 Homer, Iliad 14.242–280 Homer, Iliad 14...
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    violation in the natural order of things. For example, in a passage in the Iliad, Apollo tries three times to stop Patroclus from sacking Troy, warning him...
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    Both the temple and the city are mentioned in the first book of Homer's Iliad and suggestions regarding their exact location have been made. Furthermore...
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    city of Troy and win the war. The Trojan Horse is not mentioned in Homer's Iliad, with the poem ending before the war is concluded, and it is only briefly...
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    Poseidon (category Deities in the Iliad)
    references for this observation "Ἑρεχθεύς". Iliad 13.21 Nilsson Vol I p.446 "Iliad 10.751". "Εὐρυκρείων". Iliad 20.404. "Ἑλικώνιος". "Seven against Thebes...
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