• Look up colonus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Colonus may refer to: Colonus (person), a tenant farmer from the late Roman Empire and Early Middle...
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    Oedipus at Colonus (also Oedipus Coloneus; Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, Oidipous epi Kolōnō) is the second-last of the three Theban plays of the...
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  • Ἵππειος) or Hippius Colonus or Hippeios Kolonos (Ἵππειος Κολωνός), both meaning "Colonus of the Horses", to distinguish it from the "Colonus Agoraeus" in Athens...
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  • result, the colonus system became a new type of land tenancy, placing the occupants in a state between freedom and slavery. The colonus system can be...
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    Colonus hesperus is a species of jumping spider in the family Salticidae. It is found in the United States and Mexico. "Colonus hesperus". GBIF. Retrieved...
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    Colonus is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family, Salticidae. Colonus species are endemic to North and South America, ranging from New York...
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    father's actions. In Oedipus at Colonus, the banished Oedipus and his daughter Antigone arrive at the town of Colonus, where they encounter Theseus, King...
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  • The Gospel at Colonus is an African-American musical version of Sophocles's tragedy, Oedipus at Colonus. The show was created in 1983 by the experimental-theatre...
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    Xylotrechus colonus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, subfamily Cerambycinae, and tribe Clytini. Its common name is rustic borer or rustic...
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    Colonus sylvanus is a species of jumping spider. It is found in a range from the United States to Panama. "Colonus sylvanus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-25...
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    King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, University of Chicago, 1991; Sophocles: The Theban Plays: Antigone/King Oidipous/Oidipous at Colonus, Focus Publishing/R...
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  • Oedipus at Colonus (German: Ödipus in Kolonos), Op. 93 is incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn to Sophocles' play Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) consisting...
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    Oedipus curses his sons and refuses to leave Colonus. The chorus (in this play the elders of Colonus) tell him that because he has walked on the sacred...
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    Agoraios Kolonos (/kəˈloʊnɒs/; Ancient Greek: Κολωνός Ἀγοραῖος; Greek: Αγοραίος Κολωνός, meaning "the hill next to the Agora"), located to the south and...
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    review (Araneae: Salticidae)" (PDF). Peckhamia. 167 (1). Media related to Colonus puerperus at Wikimedia Commons Colonus puerperus at Bugguide.net v t e...
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    of Life. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Paranthias colonus". FishBase. July 2013 version. Photos of Paranthias colonus on Sealife Collection...
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    named in the play. Antigone serves as her father's guide in Oedipus at Colonus, as she leads him into the city where the play takes place. Antigone resembles...
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  • Bertmainius colonus is a spider in the family Migidae. It was first described in 2015 by Mark Harvey, Barbara York Main, Michael Rix and Steven Cooper...
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    The long-tailed tyrant (Colonia colonus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the only member of genus Colonia. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia...
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  • for his work with Prince, as the J.D. Steele Singers in "The Gospel at Colonus", in musical theatre, and as a member of the vocal group The Steeles. Steele...
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    stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (406 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of...
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    Breuer's best-known work is The Gospel at Colonus, a Pentecostal Gospel rendering of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, created with composer Bob Telson, starring...
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    life, Jones was noted for his stage portrayal of Creon in The Gospel at Colonus (1988), a black musical version of the Oedipus legend. He also appeared...
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    at Colonus 472 Pausanias, 9.3.2 Apollodorus, 3.15.9; Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.490; Scholiast on Plato, Ion 121a Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 468...
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    brothers would die by each other's hand. However, in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus desired to stay in Thebes but was expelled by Creon. His sons...
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    to have been renamed Oedipus Tyrannus to distinguish it from Oedipus at Colonus, a later play by Sophocles. In antiquity, the term "tyrant" referred to...
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    species from the family Ichneumonidae. It is a parasitoid of Xylotrechus colonus and Yakuhananomia bidentata beetles. Thompson, W. R. (1943-01-01). A Catalogue...
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    Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1292–1298; Pherecydes fr. 96 Fowler (Fowler 2000, pp. 327–328). Gantz, p. 516; Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1301–1325. Gantz...
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    Steele landed the lead role of Ismene in the touring show, The Gospel at Colonus. She went on to appear in productions of Smokey Joe's Cafe, Don't Bother...
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    The Sula jungle flycatcher (Cyornis colonus) is a species of passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is endemic to Sula Island...
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