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Mimas (other)
Mimas may refer to: *Mimas (Giant), son of Gaia in Greek mythology, one of the Gigantes * Mimas (''Aeneid''), a son of Amycus and Theono, born the same night as Paris, who escorted Aeneas to Italy *Karaburun, a town and district in Turkey, formerly called Mimas in reference to the Giant *Mimas (moon), in astronomy, a moon of Saturn marked by a giant crater on its surface * ''Mimas'' (moth), a genus of hawk moths *Mimas (data centre), a UK national academic data centre at the University of Manchester * Mimas, a centaur mentioned in the archaic Greek epic poem, the ''Shield of Heracles'', at line 182 * Mimas, grandfather of Aeolus, the keeper of the winds in Homer's ''Odyssey'' Pronounced with a final /z/ sound, it may be: *Mima mounds Mima mounds are low, flattened, circular to oval, domelike, natural mounds that are composed of loose, unstratified, often gravelly sediment that is an overthickened A horizon. These mounds range in diameter from 3 to more than 50 m; in he ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimas (Giant)
In Greek mythology, Mimas (Ancient Greek: Μίμας) was one of the Gigantes (Giants (Greek mythology), Giants), the offspring of Gaia (mythology), Gaia, born from the blood of the castrated Uranus (mythology), Uranus. Mythology According to the mythographer Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus), Apollodorus, he was killed during the Gigantomachy, the cosmic battle of the Giants (Greek mythology), Giants with the Twelve Olympians, by Hephaestus with "missiles of red-hot metal" from his forge. In Euripides' ''Ion (play), Ion'' (c. 410 BC), the chorus, describing the wonders of the late sixth century Temple of Apollo (Delphi), Temple of Apollo at Delphi, tell of seeing depicted there the Gigantomachy showing, among other things, Zeus burning Mimas "to ashes" with his thunderbolt. In the ''Argonautica'' by Apollonius of Rhodes, and the ''Gigantomachia'' by Claudian, Mimas was killed by Ares (or in Claudian's case by Ares' Roman counterpart Mars (mythology), Mars). Mimas is also mentioned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimas (Aeneid)
Mimas (Ancient Greek: Μίμας) was a Greek mythological character who appears in Virgil's ''Aeneid''. He was the son of Amycus and Theano. A noble Trojan, he accompanied Aeneas to Italy, where he was killed by Mezentius. References * *Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Aeneid The ''Aeneid'' ( ; la, Aenē̆is or ) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of ....'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.*Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library Trojans {{Greek-myth-stub Characters in the Aeneid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karaburun
Karaburun ( el, Αχιρλί, Achirlí) is a district and the center town of the same district in Turkey's İzmir Province. The district area roughly corresponds to the peninsula of the same name (Karaburun Peninsula, Turkey, Karaburun Peninsula) which spears north of the tourism resorts of neighboring Çeşme and its dependencies and west of the city of İzmir. In fact, the district area is one of the westernmost points of Anatolia. Karaburun town is situated close to the northern tip of the peninsula and checks the entry of the Gulf of İzmir with the town of Foça, another important tourism resort, across the waters. The district's administrative zone is bordered by the districts of Çeşme and Urla (District), İzmir, Urla in its south and faces the Greece, Greek island of Chios to its west. Karaburun region is comparatively much less visited than Çeşme located in its south, its rate of urbanization at 20 per cent is the lowest across İzmir Province, although it provides an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimas (moon)
Mimas , also designated Saturn I, is a moon of Saturn discovered in 1789 by William Herschel. It is named after Mimas, a son of Gaia in Greek mythology. With a diameter of , it is the smallest astronomical body that is known to still be rounded in shape because of self-gravitation. However, Mimas is not actually in hydrostatic equilibrium for its current rotation. Discovery Mimas was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel on 17 September 1789. He recorded his discovery as follows: "I continued my observations constantly, whenever the weather would permit; and the great light of the forty-feet speculum was now of so much use, that I also, on the 17th of September, detected the seventh satellite, when it was at its greatest preceding elongation." The 40-foot telescope was a metal mirror reflecting telescope built by Herschel, with a aperture. The 40 feet refers to the length of the focus, not the aperture diameter as more common with modern telescopes. Name Mima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimas (moth)
''Mimas'' is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1819. Species *'' Mimas christophi'' (Staudinger 1887) *''Mimas tiliae'' (Linnaeus 1758) Gallery Mimas christophi MHNT CUT 2010 0 1983 Gora Hakone Kanagawa Japan male.jpg, '' Mimas christophi'' Mimas tiliae MHNT male.jpg, ''Mimas tiliae ''Mimas tiliae'', the lime hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East, and has also been identified in Canada's east and western provinces and in northern Spain (Europe). The speci ...'' References {{Taxonbar , from=Q14846935 Moth genera Taxa named by Jacob Hübner Smerinthinae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimas (data Centre)
Mimas was a nationally designated academic data centre based at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Its mission was to support the advancement of knowledge, research, and teaching. It hosted a number of the UK's research information assets – and built applications to help people access this resource. The organisation had a long-standing relationship with Jisc, and strong connections with research councils, especially the Economic and Social Research Council. Mimas was transferred to Jisc in . See also *Archives Hub *Copac *ESDS International *IESR *Intute *UK PubMed Central *Landmap Landmap was a service based at the University of Manchester, England, which provided UK academia with a free-of-charge spatial data download service, using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards for maximum interoperability, which was enhance ... References External links * {{Official website, http://mimas.ac.uk/ Education in England Information technology organisations b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shield Of Heracles
The ''Shield of Heracles'' ( grc, Ἀσπὶς Ἡρακλέους, ''Aspis Hērakleous'') is an archaic Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The subject of the poem is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly. It has been suggested that this epic might reflect anti-Thessalian feeling after the First Sacred War (595–585 BCE): in the epic, a Thessalian hero interfering with the Phocian sanctuary is killed by a Boeotian hero (Heracles), whose mortal father Amphitryon had for allies Locrians and Phocians. This was a pastiche made to be sung at a Boeotian festival at midsummer at the hottest time of the dogstar '' Sirios''. To serve as an introduction, fifty-six lines have been taken from the Hesiodic ''Catalogue of Women''. The late 3rd- and early 2nd-century BCE critic Aristophanes of Byzantium, who considered the ''Catalogue'' to be the work of Hes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aeolus (son Of Hippotes)
In Greek mythology, Aeolus, the son of Hippotes, was the ruler of the winds encountered by Odysseus in Homer's ''Odyssey''. Aeolus was the king of the island of Aeolia, where he lived with his wife and six sons and six daughters. To ensure safe passage home for Odysseus and his men, Aeolus gave Odysseus a bag containing all the winds, except the gentle west wind. But when almost home, Odysseus' men, thinking the bag contained treasure, opened it and they were all driven by the winds back to Aeolia. Believing that Odysseus must evidently be hated by the gods, Aeolus sent him away without further help. This Aeolus was also sometimes confused with the Aeolus who was the son of Hellen and the eponym of the Aeolians. Family All that Homer's ''Odyssey'' tells us about Aeolus' family is that his father was Hippotes, that he had six sons and six daughters, that Aeolus gave his six daughters to his six sons as wives, and that Aeolus, his wife, and all their children lived happily togeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
