• Look up Parthenos or παρθένος in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Parthenos (Greek: παρθένος 'virgin') may refer to: Virgin (title), an honorific bestowed...
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    The statue of Athena Parthenos (Ancient Greek: Παρθένος Ἀθηνᾶ, lit. 'Athena the Virgin') was a monumental chryselephantine sculpture of the goddess Athena...
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    association is with the myth of Parthenos, which explains how the constellation Virgo came to be. According to this legend, Parthenos is the daughter of Staphylus...
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    Parthenos sylvia, the clipper, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in south and southeast Asia, mostly in forested areas. The clipper is a fast-flying...
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    Athena, particularly during the 19th century. Parthénos was also applied to the Virgin Mary (Parthénos Maria) when the Parthenon was converted to a Christian...
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  • Liolaemus parthenos is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. It is endemic to Argentina. Liolaemus parthenos at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database...
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    Parthenos, the clippers, are a genus of butterflies found in Southeast Asia. Listed alphabetically: "Parthenos Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera...
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    Acropolis, the huge gold and ivory ("chryselephantine") cult image of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon and the Lemnian Athena. The designation Athena Promachos...
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    Athena Parthenos statue that was in the original Parthenon in Athens. In 1982, Alan LeQuire was commissioned to create the statue of Athena Parthenos as a...
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    of the city by creating the first olive tree. She was known as Athena Parthenos "Athena the Virgin". In one archaic Attic myth, the god Hephaestus tried...
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  • age", but it was translated in the Koine Greek Septuagint as παρθένος parthenos, meaning virgin, and was subsequently picked up by the gospels of Matthew...
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    "Platarctia parthenos (Harris, 1850)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved November 29, 2018. "930288.00 – 8162 – Arctia parthenos – St. Lawrence...
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    Underworld. In the Poeticon Astronomicon by Hyginus (1st century BC), Parthenos (Παρθένος) is the daughter of Apollo and Chrysothemis, who died a maiden...
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    statues of the goddess Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, namely the Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon, and the Athena Promachos, a colossal bronze which...
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    of the sirens in Greek mythology. Her name means 'maiden-voiced' from parthenos (παρθένος, meaning fig. 'maiden/virgin') and ops (ὄψ, meaning 'voice')...
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    Hellēnikḗ An inscription about the construction of the statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon, 440/439 BC Region Eastern Mediterranean Language family...
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  • Ramírez-Arellano, and Coach Gleeson Hedge attempt to bring the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood in order to prevent a war between the Roman and Greek...
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    example, the figure of Nike held in the right hand of Phidias's Athena Parthenos was made from solid gold with this very purpose in mind. Indeed, in times...
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  • African freshwater fish Clipper butterflies, the genus Parthenos and in particular the species Parthenos sylvia Clipper card, a smart card for paying transit...
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    romanized: Maria Ancient Greek: παρθένος, romanized: "parthénos"; Matthew 1:23 uses the Greek parthénos, "virgin", whereas only the Hebrew of Isaiah 7:14...
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  • Greek relief sculpture dating around c.470 BC Athena Parthenos, a Greek statue in the Parthenos Athena (yacht), formerly the largest private sailing yacht...
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    (νύμφα). Modern usage more often applies to young women, contrasting with parthenos (παρθένος) "a virgin (of any age)", and generically as kore (κόρη < κόρϝα)...
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    charms of romantic love or marriage; one of her most common epithets is Parthenos, "the maiden", and her most famous temple from antiquity—still partially...
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    heroine, Pamphile the silk weaver, Parthenos, and by some accounts, Phoebe, Hilyra and Scylla. Apollo turned Parthenos into a constellation after her early...
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    invasion of Attica. The shield of Athena Parthenos, sculpted by Phidias, depicts a fallen Amazon. Athena Parthenos was a massive chryselephantine sculpture...
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    The Parthenon on the Acropolis hill of Athens dedicated to Athena Parthenos...
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  • rape) is irrevocable and the parthenos is changed in some way from her existence prior to the assault. Daphne is a parthenos who wanted to become a huntress...
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    Gorgoneion on an Athena Parthenos...
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    "virgin" (from menei "waiting" and andra "husband") for standard Greek parthenos; menekratēs "pillar" (from menei "it remains in one place" and kratei...
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    Parthenogenesis (/ˌpɑːrθɪnoʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs, -θɪnə-/; from the Greek παρθένος, parthénos, 'virgin' + γένεσις, génesis, 'creation') is a natural form of asexual...
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