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Geta
Geta may refer to: Places *Geta (woreda), a woreda in Ethiopia's Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region *Geta, Åland, a municipality in Finland * Geta, Nepal, a town in Attariya Municipality, Kailali District, Seti Zone, Nepal *Getå, a minor locality in Norrköping Municipality, Sweden Other uses * ''Geta'' (comedy), a medieval poem * Geta (footwear), a type of Japanese footwear * Geta symbol (〓), a Japanese typographic symbol * Gta’ language, a Munda language of India *''Courtship Rite'' or ''Geta'', a 1982 science fiction novel by Donald Kingsbury *getaproduction.com People with the name *Geta (emperor) (189–211), Roman emperor from 209 to 211 *Gaius Vitorius Hosidius Geta, Roman priest and grandson of Gnaeus Hosidius Geta *Gnaeus Hosidius Geta (c. AD 20 – after 95), Roman senator and general * Hosidius Geta (2nd–3rd century), Roman playwright *Lucius Lusius Geta (1st century), Roman governor of Egypt See also * Getas Getas (Ancient Greek: Γέ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geta (emperor)
Publius Septimius Geta ( ; 7 March 189 – 19/26 December 211) was Roman emperor with his father Septimius Severus and older brother Caracalla from 209, when he was named ''Augustus'' like his brother, who had held the title from 198. Severus died in 211, and although he intended for his sons to rule together, they proved incapable of sharing power, culminating with the murder of Geta in December of that year. Early life Geta was the younger son of Septimius Severus by his second wife Julia Domna. He was born on 7 March in either Rome or Mediolanum, at a time when his father was only a provincial governor at the service of Emperor Commodus. In 198, Geta was raised to ''Caesar''. Septimius Severus gave him the title of ''augustus'' in late 209. During the campaign against the Britons in the early 3rd century AD, imperial propaganda promoted the image of a happy family that shared the responsibilities of rule. Geta's brother Caracalla acted as Severus' second-in-command, and ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geta, Åland
Geta is a municipality in the northern part of Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Its neighboring municipalities are Finström, Hammarland and Saltvik. The municipality is unilingually Swedish. See also * Åland Islands Highway 4 Åland ( fi, Ahvenanmaa: ; ; ) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland since 1920 by a decision of the League of Nations. It is the smallest region of Finland by area and population, with a size of 1,580 km2, and a populati ... References Notes External links *Municipality of Geta– Official website Municipalities of Åland {{Åland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtship Rite
''Courtship Rite'' is a science fiction novel by Canadian writer Donald Kingsbury, originally serialized in ''Analog'' magazine in 1982. The book is set in the same universe as some of Kingsbury's other stories, such as "Shipwright" (1978) and the unpublished ''The Finger Pointing Solward''. In the UK, the novel was entitled ''Geta'', and in France, ''Parade nuptiale''. ''Courtship Rite'' was the first winner of the Compton Crook Award for best first novel, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983 and won the 2016 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. Setting Geta Geta is a harsh planet settled by humanity centuries before the novel begins. The planet has one large satellite, Scowlmoon; the two are in a mutual tidal lock, so the moon is only visible from half the planet. The planet's day is about half as long as Earth's. Geta is much drier than Earth, with eleven separate bodies of water large enough to be called seas; most of the land area is desert. The Njara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaius Vitorius Hosidius Geta
Gaius Vitorius Hosidius Geta ( ) was a Roman who lived in the 1st century AD and 2nd century AD. Geta was an only son and might have had a sister called Vitoria. His father was Roman consul and senator Marcus Vitorius Marcellus and his mother was Hosidia Geta. Geta's maternal grandfather was Roman Senator and General Gnaeus Hosidius Geta. Geta is mentioned in the fourth book of ''Silvae'' by the poet Statius and in the writings of the Roman teacher Quintilian. Both Statius and Quintilian were friends of his father's. Statius mentions that Geta's grandfather demanded worthy feats from him. Quintilian had appeared to be Geta's tutor, because in his letters to Marcellus, Quintilian mentions about Marcellus’ instructions to him. Quintilian writes to Marcellus, how impressed he is of Geta's academic abilities and hopes Geta would aspire to them. Geta became a member of the Arval Brethren. The Arval Brethren was an ancient group of priests who offered annual sacrifices to the ''lares ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geta (footwear)
A Geta, ( zh, 木屐, ja, 下駄; geta or getas) is a traditional East Asian footwear that resembles flip-flops. A kind of sandals, geta have a flat wooden base elevated with up to three (though commonly two) "teeth", held on the foot with a fabric thong, which keeps the foot raised above the ground. History The earliest known pair of geta was excavated in a neolithic archaeological site near Ningbo, Zhejing, China, dated to the Liangzhu culture (3400–2250 BCE). These geta differed in construction to modern geta, having five or six holes in place of the modern-day three. The use and popularity of wooden clogs in China has been recorded in other sources dating to between the Spring and Autumn period (771–476 BCE) to the Qin (221–206 BCE) and Han dynasties (202 BCE–220 CE). Geta-style shoes were worn in Southern China likely until sometime between the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing dynasties (1636/1644–1912), when they were replaced by other types of footwear. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gnaeus Hosidius Geta
Gaius or Gnaeus Hosidius Geta ( ; c. 20 – after 95 AD) was a Roman Senator and general who lived in the 1st century. Geta was a praetor some time before 42. In the latter year, commanding a legion, probably the ''Legio IX Hispana'' in the Africa Province, he was a part of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus' campaigns into Mauretania. Geta defeated Sabalus, a chief of the Mauri, twice, and after gathering as much water as could be carried, pursued him into the desert. Sabalus' forces were more used to the conditions and the legion's water began to run out. A native friendly to the Romans persuaded Geta to perform a rain ritual used by his people and rain began to fall. The Romans' thirst was relieved and the Mauri, seeing the heavens come to their enemies' aid, surrendered. Geta and his legion were part of the Roman conquest of Britain, led by Aulus Plautius, the following year. Geta was almost captured in the Battle of the Medway in the early part of the campaign, but recovered and turne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geta, Nepal
Geta, Nepal is a town in Attariya Municipality in Kailali District in Sudurpashchim Province of western Nepal. The formerly Malakheti, Shreepur, Beladevipur, Geta Village Development Committees were merged to form the new municipality since 18 May 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the main towns and villages of each ... it had a population of 7900 living in 1216 individual households.. References External linksUN map of the municipalities of Kailali District Populated places in Kailali District {{Kailali-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Lusius Geta
Lucius Lusius Geta ( ; fl. 1st-century AD) was a Roman politician in the 1st century AD. Biography Lusius Geta belonged to the equestrian order. He was Emperor Claudius' praetorian prefect in AD 48, during the crisis of Messalina's conspiracy against Claudius. According to Tacitus, Claudius' advisors lacked confidence in Lusius Geta, thinking him too easily influenced; therefore, Claudius' chief advisor Narcissus temporarily relieved Lusius Geta of command after then-Empress Valeria Messalina entered into a bigamous marriage with Gaius Silius in an apparent conspiracy to overthrow her husband as Emperor. (See Valeria Messalina#Downfall, death and aftermath.) However, Lusius Geta maintained the confidence of Claudius himself and remained in office as praetorian prefect until AD 51, although he shared his position with Rufrius Crispinus. In AD 51 Claudius' fourth wife Agrippina, fearing that Geta and Crispinus favored Messalina's son and imperial heir Britannicus more than her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hosidius Geta
Hosidius Geta ( ; fl. late 2nd – early 3rd century AD) was a Roman playwright. Tertullian refers to him as his contemporary in the ''De Prescriptione Haereticorum''. Geta was the author of a tragedy in 462 verses titled ''Medea''. It is the earliest known example of a Virgilian cento, that is, a poem constructed entirely out of lines and half-lines from the works of Virgil. The poet used Virgilian hexameters Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet (a "foot" here is the pulse, or major accent, of words in an English line of poetry; in Greek and Latin a "foot" is not an accent, but describes various combinations of syllables). It w ... for the spoken parts of the play, and half-hexameters for the choral parts. Bibliography *Text edited by R. Lamacchia, ''Medea. Cento Vergilianus'' (Teubner, 1981) *Text, Translation, and Commentary by Maria Teresa Galli atin-Italian with English Summaries Vertumnus. Berliner Beiträge zur Klassischen Philologie und zu ihre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geta (woreda)
Geta is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia.Geta is one of the sub-groups of the Sebat Bet Gurage. Part of the Gurage Zone, the Geta woreda is bordered on the south by the Silt'e Zone, on the southwest by Endegagn, on the west by Enemorina Eaner, on the north by Cheha, and on the northeast by Gumer. Geta was separated from the Gumer woreda. Demographics Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this woreda has a total population of 69,455, of whom 33,020 are men and 36,435 women. The majority of the inhabitants were reported as Muslim, with 77.6% of the population reporting that belief, while 17.19% practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ( am, የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን, ''Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan'') is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. One of the few Chri ..., and 4.26% were Protestants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geta (comedy)
''Geta'', a twelfth-century elegiac comedy by Vitalis of Blois, is a loose adaptation of Plautus’ play, ''Amphitryon''. Both tell the story of how Jupiter, transforming himself to look like Amphitryon, sleeps with Amphitryon’s wife, Alcmena. But in ''Geta'', Amphitryon is not a Greek military leader but a philosopher, and Hercules, the child who is born from the union of the god and Alcmena, is not even mentioned.Plautus, ''Plautus'', trans. Paul Nixon (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916). In both stories, Amphitryon’s servant, who is sent on ahead to his master’s estate to announce Amphitryon’s homecoming to Alcmena, is turned away by Mercury, who is disguised as that very servant, and who convinces him that he (Mercury) is the real servant; but in ''Geta'', this trickery is aided by sophistical arguments, which serve to ridicule sophists A sophist ( el, σοφιστής, sophistes) was a teacher in ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Sophists speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Getå
Getå is a minor locality in Norrköping Municipality, Sweden. History On 1 October 1918 Getå was the site of Getå Railroad Disaster, the worst train accident in Swedish railroad history, killing at least 42 people. Many passengers were burned alive as unreinforced wooden cars burned, killing many who had survived the actual crash but were trapped in the wreckage. References Populated places in Östergötland County {{Östergötland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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