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Avernus (other)
Avernus is a volcanic crater in Italy with significance for Roman mythology. Avernus may also refer to: * Lake Avernus, a lake in Italy * Avernus Colles, a region on Mars * Australian torpedo boat Avernus, Australian torpedo boat ''Avernus'', a ship * ''Avernus'', a genus of spittlebugs in the family Aphrophoridae * Avernus, a fictional location in the Outer Planes of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' universe, which appeared in adventure modules like ''Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus'', or video games such as ''Neverwinter (video game), Neverwinter'' or ''Baldur's Gate III'' * Avernus, a fictional spaceship in the ''Helliconia'' series of science fiction novels See also * Averno (other) * Avernum {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avernus
Avernus was an ancient name for a volcanic crater near Cumae (Cuma), Italy, in the region of Campania west of Naples. Part of the Phlegraean Fields of volcanoes, Avernus is approximately in circumference. Within the crater is Lake Avernus ('). Role in ancient Roman society Avernus was believed to be the entrance to the underworld, and is portrayed as such in the ''Aeneid'' of Virgil. According to tradition, all birds flying over the lake were destined to fall dead, hence the lake’s name was transferred to Greek as ‚ or "Birdless (lake)". This was likely due to the toxic fumes that mouths of the crater gave off into the atmosphere. In later times, the word was simply an alternative name for the underworld. On the shores of the lake is the grotto of the Cumaean Sibyl and the entrance to a long tunnel (Grotta di Cocceio, c. ) leading toward Cumae, where her sanctuary was located. There are also the remains of temples to Apollo and Jupiter. During the civil war between Octavian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Avernus
__NOTOC__ Lake Avernus ( it, Lago d'Averno) is a volcanic crater lake located in the Avernus crater in the Campania region of southern Italy, around west of Pozzuoli. It is near the volcanic field known as the Phlegraean Fields (') and comprises part of the wider Campanian volcanic arc. The lake is roughly circular, measuring in circumference and deep. Roman era Avernus was of major importance to the Romans, who considered it to be the entrance to Hades. Roman writers often used the name as a synonym for the underworld. In Virgil's ''Aeneid'', Aeneas descends to the underworld through a cave near the lake. In Hyginus' ''Fabulae'', Odysseus also goes to the lower world from this spot, where he meets Elpenor, his comrade who went missing at Circe's place. Despite the alleged dangers of the lake, the Romans were happy to settle its shores, on which villas and vineyards were established. The lake's personification, the ', was worshipped in lakeside temples. A large bathhouse was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avernus Colles
Avernus Colles is a region of fractured terrain on Mars on the southeast margin of Elysium Planitia, at 1.6°S, 171°E. It is fairly large, being 244 km (152 mi) in diameter. Avernus Colles can be found in the Elysium quadrangle. It was named in 1985 after a lake in Campania, Italy, which is believed by some to be an entrance to the underworld. 40795 1815mesa.jpg, Mesas and eroded parts of mesas showing layers and dark slope streaks Dark slope streaks are narrow, avalanche-like features common on dust-covered slopes in the equatorial regions of Mars.Chuang, F.C.; Beyer, R.A.; Bridges, N.T. (2010). Modification of Martian Slope Streaks by Eolian Processes. ''Icarus,'' 205 154 ..., as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program Image is located in eastern Avernus Colles. References Surface features of Mars Aeolis quadrangle {{mars-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Torpedo Boat Avernus
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * '' The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aphrophoridae
The Aphrophoridae or spittlebugs are a family of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera. There are at least 160 genera and 990 described species in Aphrophoridae. European genera * ''Aphrophora'' Germar 1821 * ''Lepyronia'' Amyot & Serville 1843 * '' Mesoptyelus'' Matsumura 1904 * ''Neophilaenus'' Haupt 1935 * '' Paraphilaenus'' Vilbaste 1962 * '' Peuceptyelus'' Sahlberg 1871 * ''Philaenus'' Stål 1864 See also * List of Aphrophoridae genera * Froghopper The froghoppers, or the superfamily Cercopoidea, are a group of hemipteran insects in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha. Adults are capable of jumping many times their height and length, giving the group their common name, but they are best known ... References ''Fauna Europaea'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outer Planes
In the fantasy role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'', an Outer Plane is one of a number of general types of plane (Dungeons & Dragons), planes of existence. They can also be referred to as ''godly planes'', ''spiritual planes'' or ''divine planes''. The Outer Planes are home to beings such as Deity, deities and their servants such as Demons (Dungeons & Dragons), demons, Celestials (Dungeons & Dragons), celestials and Devil (Dungeons & Dragons), devils. Each Outer Plane is usually the physical manifestation of a particular moral and ethics, ethical Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons), alignment and the entities that dwell there often embody the traits related to that alignment. The intangible and esoteric Outer Planes—the realms of Ideal (ethics), ideals, philosophies, and gods—stand in contrast to the Inner Planes, which compose the material building blocks of reality and the realms of energy and matter. All Outer Planes are spatially infinite but are composed of features and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Descent Into Avernus
Descent may refer to: As a noun Genealogy and inheritance * Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology * Kinship, one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology ** Pedigree chart or family tree **Ancestry **Lineal descendant ** Heritage ** Royal descent - lineal descent from a monarch * Phylogenetics **Tree diagram (other) * Inheritance (law and property) Mathematics * Infinite descent, a method going back to Fermat to solve Diophantine equations * Descent (mathematics), an idea extending the notion of "gluing" in topology * Hadamard's method of descent, a technique for solving partial differential equations * Gradient descent, a first-order optimization algorithm going back to Newton * Descents in permutations, a classical permutation statistic in combinatorics Other uses * Descent (aeronautics), the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight * Descent (font), the distance that a typeface descends below the baseline in typography * Katabasis As a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neverwinter (video Game)
''Neverwinter'' is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Cryptic Studios for Microsoft Windows in 2013, Xbox One in 2015, and PlayStation 4 in 2016. Based on the fictional ''Forgotten Realms'' city of Neverwinter from ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''Neverwinter'' is a standalone game and not part of the previous ''Neverwinter Nights'' series. Gameplay Players can choose one of eight ''Dungeons & Dragons'' character classes and form groups of up to five player characters (PCs). ''Neverwinter'' was originally based on a modified version of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' 4th edition rules set. This includes the use of healing powers and ''action points'', the latter of which is implemented through a system referred to as ''dailies'', allowing a player to perform a special ability by accumulating enough action points through combat. A player-created content system codenamed "Foundry" allows players to create their own stories and quests. On October 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldur's Gate III
''Baldur's Gate III'' is an upcoming role-playing video game developed and published by Larian Studios. It is the third main game in the ''Baldur's Gate'' series, which is itself based on the '' Dungeons & Dragons'' tabletop role-playing system. A partial version of the game was released in early access format for Windows, macOS, and the Stadia streaming service, on 6 October 2020. The game is expected to remain in early access until its full release in August 2023. The full version of the game will not be released on Stadia due to the service's closure in January 2023. Gameplay ''Baldur's Gate III'' is a role-playing video game that offers both a single-player and cooperative multiplayer element. Players can create one or more characters and form a party along with computer-generated characters to explore the game's story. Optionally, players will be able to take one of their characters and team up online with other players to form a party. Unlike previous games in the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helliconia
The Helliconia trilogy is a series of science fiction books by British writer Brian W. Aldiss, set on the Earth-like planet Helliconia. It is an epic chronicling the rise and fall of a civilisation over more than a thousand years as the planet progresses through its incredibly long seasons, which last for centuries. The trilogy consists of the books '' Helliconia Spring'' (published in 1982), ''Helliconia Summer'' (1983), and ''Helliconia Winter'' (1985). Synopsis In one sense, the central character is not any person (though some families are focused on, such as Yuli the Priest's line, which dominates ''Helliconia Spring'') but the planet itself and its science, particularly in the light of James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis. The books describe realistic and credible details of the planet from the perspectives of a great variety of fields of study – astronomy, geology, climatology, geobiology, microbiology, religion, society, and many others – for which Aldiss gaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Averno (other)
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Averno may refer to: * Lake Avernus (), a crater lake in south Italy * Avernus, entrance to the Roman underworld * ''Averno'' (poetry collection), a book of poetry by Louise Glück *Averno (wrestler), Mexican professional wrestler *Averno (universe), multimedia universe/franchise created by Morgan Smith See also * Avernus (other) Avernus is a volcanic crater in Italy with significance for Roman mythology. Avernus may also refer to: * Lake Avernus, a lake in Italy * Avernus Colles, a region on Mars * Australian torpedo boat Avernus, Australian torpedo boat ''Avernus'', a shi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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