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- Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...s beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
4: ...ger-lasting 6th century Ionic temple was the [[Temple of Artemis]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wond...
6: ...ers. This feature of the Ionic order made it more pliant and satisfactory than the Doric to critical e...
10: ...[Inigo Jones]] introduced a note of sobriety with plain Ionic columns on his [[Banqueting House at Whi...
12: ...blature resting on the columns has three parts: a plain [[architrave]] divided into two, or more gener... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
2: |+ <big>'''Pluto'''</big>
4: ...lspan="2" align="center"| [[image:Pluto.jpg|250px|Pluto in True Color]]
5: .../><small><font color="white">'''Brightness map of Pluto'''</font></small>
120: ...regarding whether Pluto should be classified as a planet (see below for details). Its symbol is a comb...
124: ...d orbit of [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]]. It is [[#Planet X?|now known]] these discrepancies were an ar... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
7: ... complement her twin's identification with and supplantation of [[Helios]] as the [[sun god]]. Artemi...
19: ...Slaves could ask for and receive asylum in her temples.
25: ...ratum beneath that of their conquerors. It seems plausible that the association of Diana worship with...
33: ...her chest. They were formerly believed to be multiple breasts but are now known to have represented bu...
37: ...was sometimes known as [[Cynthia]], from her birthplace on [[Mount Cynthus]] on [[Delos]]. She someti... - St. Valentine's Day (9989 bytes)
10: ...ated to the sacred [[marriage]] of [[Zeus]] and [[Hera]].
21: ...Dublin]], [[Ireland]], which has become a popular place of pilgrimage on [[February 14]].
26: ...in his version of Christian love, an emphasis sharply in contrast with the asceticism of mainstream Ch...
46: ...e to be associated with a generic [[Platonic love|platonic]] greeting of "Happy Valentine's Day." - Zeus (17267 bytes)
6: ...nic]] and [[Norse mythology]]. Tyr was however supplanted by [[Odin]] as the supreme god among the [[G...
13: Zeus played a huge role in the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] O...
15: The various titles applied to Zeus emphasized different aspects of his wi...
17: ... all the Hellenes') to whom [[Aeacus]]' famous temple on [[Aegina]] was dedicated.
25: ...tance, could be found at any number of [[Greek temple]]s from [[Asia Minor]] to [[Sicily]]. Certain mo... - Troy (22846 bytes)
5: ...lourished until the establishment of [[Constantinople]], and declined gradually during [[Byzantine Em...
10: ...d the sea monster snatches away the people of the plain.
12: ...ga]] ([[Rome]]), Britain, and the [[Elymi]], a people of [[Sicily]]. The Maxyans are a west Libyan tri...
14: ...an rule in Asia Minor is replaced by the "sons of Herakles" dynasty in [[Sardis]] that ruled for 505 yea...
20: ...where [[Helenus]], the Trojan [[seer]], built a replica of Troy. [[Aeneas]] landed there and Helenus f... - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
4: ... and [[Cythera]], respectively. The island of Cythera was a center of her cult. She was associated wit...
16: ...s the original oracular goddess ("Dione" being simply "the goddess," etymologically an equivalent of "...
18: ...ntatively came ashore at [[Cytherea]], a stopping place for trade and culture between Crete and the Pe...
20: ...respectively (homosexuality being more divine for Plato).
25: ...[[Troy]] to [[Paris]], but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time,... - Dionysus (15630 bytes)
14: ...at became of him after his birth. It is therefore plain to me that the Greeks learned the names of the...
16: ...tant land was intended, perhaps named 'Nysa' to explain the god's unreadable name, as the 'god of Nysa...
20: ...vine and its wild barren alter-ego, the toxic ivy plant, both sacred to him, the fig was also his. The...
26: ...es and political conspiracies were supposed to be planned, led in [[186 BC]] to a decree of the [[Roma...
40: ...lly Zeus. Hera pretended not to believe her, and planted seeds of doubt in Semele's mind. Curious, S... - Hermes (10248 bytes)
6: ...y in which the wind may transfer objects from one place to another, and with the transition to the aft...
9: ...a]] and [[Arcadia]]. His origin on Mt. Cyllene explains the origin of an epithet for Hermēs: ''H...
18: Though temples to Hermēs existed throughout [[Greece]], a...
26: ...ndaries. In [[Athens, Greece|Athens]], they were placed outside houses for good luck. "That a monume...
31: ...ndals ([[talaria]]) and carrying his Near Eastern herald's staff, entwined by copulating [[serpent]]s, c... - Storks (8536 bytes)
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80: ... a difficult subject to approach, especially in reply to a child's query of "Where did I come from?"; ...
90: ...phonetic value" as a human "ba" -- I guess that explains it. Looks like a human-headed Hawk on that li... - Virgo (3620 bytes)
35: ...confirmed planet 6.6 times the mass of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]].
38: ...)|Callisto]], either as Callisto herself, or as [[Hera]]. [[Persephone]] (who in some mythologies, notab...
45: ...exaltation_(astrology)|exaltation]] of [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]. Its polar opposite is [[Pisces]].... - Scorpius (3888 bytes)
14: ...aia (mythology)|Gaia]] (or possibly the goddess [[Hera]]) to kill the hunter [[Orion (mythology)|Orion]]...
16: ...in the night sky. However, the scorpion was also placed up there, and every time it appears on the ho...
20: ..., a powerful but benevolent creature whose rising heralded spring.
25: ...has been considered Scorpio's ruling or co-ruling planet by many modern astrologers). Each astrologica... - Pomegranate (4637 bytes)
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