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Dido (singer) Compilation Albums
Dido ( ; , ), also known as Elissa ( , ), was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage (located in modern Tunisia), in 814 BC. In most accounts, she was the queen of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre (today in Lebanon) who fled tyranny to found her own city in northwest Africa. Known only through ancient Greek and Roman sources, all of which were written well after Carthage's founding, her historicity remains uncertain. The oldest references to Dido are attributed to Timaeus, who was active around 300 BC, or about five centuries after the date given for the foundation of Carthage. Details about Dido's character, life, and role in the founding of Carthage are best known from the account given in Virgil's epic poem, the '' Aeneid,'' written around 20 BC, which tells the legendary story of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Dido is described as a clever and enterprising woman who flees her ruthless and autocratic brother, Pygmalion, after di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guérin Énée Racontant à Didon Les Malheurs De La Ville De Troie Louvre 5184
Guerin or Guérin may refer to: People Surname Actors and dancers * Bruce Guerin (1919–2012), American child actor * Florence Guérin (born 1965), French actress * François Guérin (1927–2003), French actor * Isabelle Guérin (born 1961), French ballet dancer * Lucy Guerin (born 1961), Australian dancer and choreographer * Maude Guérin (born 1965), Canadian film and television actress * Roger Guérin (1926–2010), French musician and singer * Theodosia Stirling (1815–1904), known as Mrs. Guerin, Australian actor and singer Artists * Charles-François-Prosper Guérin (1875–1939), French post-impressionist painter * Christophe Guérin (1758–1831), French engraver and painter * Emmanuel Guérin (1884–1967), French sculptor * François Guérin (artist) (1717–1801), French miniaturist, draughtsman and artist * Gabriel-Christophe Guérin (1790-1846), Bavarian painter * Gilles Guérin (1611–1678), French sculptor * Jean Michel Prosper Guérin (1838–after 1912), F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunisian Dinar
The dinar ( ar, دينار, french: Dinar, ISO 4217 currency code: ''TND'') is the currency of Tunisia. It is subdivided into 1000 milim or millimes (). The abbreviation ''DT'' is often used in Tunisia, although writing "dinar" after the amount is also acceptable (TND is less colloquial, and tends to be used more in financial circles); the abbreviation ''TD'' is also mentioned in a few places, but is less frequently used, given the common use of the French language in Tunisia, and the French derivation of ''DT'' (i.e., ). Etymology The name "dinar" is derived from the Roman Empire, Roman denarius, used in the Africa province, the antique territory of Carthage, modern day Tunisia. History The dinar was introduced in 1960, having been established as a unit of account in 1958. It replaced the Tunisian franc, franc at a rate of 1000 francs = 1 dinar. The dinar did not follow the devaluation of the French franc in 1958, thus the exchange rate peg was abandoned. Instead a peg to the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appian
Appian of Alexandria (; grc-gre, Ἀππιανὸς Ἀλεξανδρεύς ''Appianòs Alexandreús''; la, Appianus Alexandrinus; ) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who flourished during the reigns of Emperors of Rome Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius. He was born c. 95 in Alexandria. After holding the senior offices in the province of Aegyptus (Egypt), he went to Rome c. 120, where he practised as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors (probably as ''advocatus fisci'', an important official of the imperial treasury). It was in 147 at the earliest that he was appointed to the office of procurator, probably in Egypt, on the recommendation of his friend Marcus Cornelius Fronto, an influential rhetorician and advocate. Because the position of procurator was open only to members of the equestrian order (the "knightly" class), his possession of this office tells us about Appian's family background. His principal surviving work (Ρωμαϊκά ''Romaiká'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taormina
Taormina ( , , also , ; scn, Taurmina) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy. Taormina has been a tourist destination since the 19th century. Its beaches on the Ionian sea, including that of Isola Bella, are accessible via an aerial tramway built in 1992, and via highways from Messina in the north and Catania in the south. On 26–27 May 2017 Taormina hosted the 43rd G7 summit. History The history of Taormina dates back to before Ancient Greece established its first colony on Sicily in 734 BCE. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Taormina continued to rank as one of the more important towns of the island. Taormina followed the history of Sicily in being ruled by successive foreign monarchs. After the Italian unification, Taormina began to attract well-off tourists from northern Europe, and it became known as a welcoming haven for gay men and artists. Main sights The presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Writings
A lost work is a document, literary work, or piece of multimedia produced some time in the past, of which no surviving copies are known to exist. It can only be known through reference. This term most commonly applies to works from the classical world, although it is increasingly used in relation to modern works. A work may be lost to history through the destruction of an original manuscript and all later copies. Works—or, commonly, small fragments of works—have survived by being found by archaeologists during investigations, or accidentally by anybody, such as, for example, the Nag Hammadi library scrolls. Works also survived when they were reused as bookbinding materials, quoted or included in other works, or as palimpsests, where an original document is imperfectly erased so the substrate on which it was written can be reused. The discovery, in 1822, of Cicero's '' De re publica'' was one of the first major recoveries of a lost ancient text from a palimpsest. Another f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
