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Acragas Peckhami
Acragas may refer to: * Acragas, an ancient Greek city on the site of modern Agrigento, Sicily * Acragas (mythology), son of Zeus and the Oceanid Asterope in Greek mythology * Acragas, one of the Potamoi The Potamoi ( grc-gre, Ποταμοί, "Rivers") are the gods of rivers and streams of the earth in Greek mythology. Mythology The river gods were the 3000 sons of the great earth-encircling river Oceanus and his wife Tethys and the brothers of ... * Acragas (silversmith), an engraver or chaser in silver, mentioned by Pliny the Elder * ''Acragas'' (spider), a genus of jumping spiders {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agrigento
Agrigento (; scn, Girgenti or ; grc, Ἀκράγας, translit=Akrágas; la, Agrigentum or ; ar, كركنت, Kirkant, or ''Jirjant'') is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento. It was one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the Fifth-century Athens, golden age of Ancient Greece BC. History Akragas was founded on a plateau overlooking the sea, with two nearby rivers, the Sant'Anna (river), Hypsas and the Acragas, after which the settlement was originally named. A ridge, which offered a degree of natural fortification, links a hill to the north called Colle di Girgenti with another, called Rupe Atenea, to the east. According to Thucydides, it was founded around 582-580 BC by Ancient Greece, Greek colonists from Gela in eastern Sicily, with further colonists from Crete and Rhodes. The founders (Oikistes, ''oikistai'') of the new city were Aristonous and Pystilus. It was the last of the major Greek colonies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acragas (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Acragas or Akragas (Greek: Ἀκράγας), was said to be a son of Zeus and the Oceanid Asterope, and the eponym of the town of Acragas (modern Agrigento) in Sicily.Smith"Acragas" Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. ''Akragantes'' (Meinekep. 74 Billerbeckp. 121. Notes References * Billerbeck, Margarethe, ''Stephani Byzantii Ethnica: Volumen I: Α–Γ'', Walter de Gruyter, 2006. . * Meineke, August, ''Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorvm quae svpersvnt'', Berolini: Impensis G. Reimeri, 1849Internet Archive * Smith, William; ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology The ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1849, originally published 1844 under a slightly different title) is an encyclopedia/biographical dictionary. Edited by William Smith, the dictionary spans three volumes and 3,700 p ...'', London (1873)"Acragas" {{mythology-stub Sicily Children of Zeus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potamoi
The Potamoi ( grc-gre, Ποταμοί, "Rivers") are the gods of rivers and streams of the earth in Greek mythology. Mythology The river gods were the 3000 sons of the great earth-encircling river Oceanus and his wife Tethys and the brothers of the Oceanids. They were also the fathers of the Naiads. The river gods were depicted in one of three forms: a man-headed bull, a bull-headed man with the body of a serpent-like fish from the waist down, or as a reclining man with an arm resting upon an amphora jug pouring water. Notable river gods include: * Achelous, the god of the Achelous River, the largest river in Greece, who gave his daughter in marriage to Alcmaeon, and was defeated by Heracles in a wrestling contest for the right to marry Deianira. * Alpheus, who fell in love with the nymph Arethusa, pursuing her to Syracuse, where she was transformed into a spring by Artemis. * Asopus, father of many naiads. His daughter Aegina was carried off to the island Aegina by Zeus. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acragas (silversmith)
Acragas (Gr. ) was an engraver, or silversmith, spoken of by Pliny the Elder. It is not known either when or where he was born. Pliny says that Acragas, Boethus and Mys were considered but little inferior to Mentor, an artist of great note in the same profession; and that works of all three were in existence in his day, preserved in different temples in the island of Rhodes. Those of Acragas, who was especially famed for his representations of hunting scenes on cups, were in the temple of Bacchus at Rhodes, and consisted of cups with figures of Bacchae and Centaurs graved on them. If the language of Pliny justifies us in inferring that the three artists whom he classes together lived at the same time, that would fix the age of Acragas in the latter part of the fifth century BC, as Mys was a contemporary of Phidias Phidias or Pheidias (; grc, Φειδίας, ''Pheidias''; 480 – 430 BC) was a Greek sculptor, painter, and architect. His Statue of Zeus at Olymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
