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Telos (/ ˈ t ɛ l ɒ s, ˈ t iː l ɒ s /; [1] Ancient Greek: τέλος, romanized: télos, lit. 'end, purpose, goal') [ 2 ] is a term used by philosopher Aristotle to refer to the final cause of a natural organ or entity, or of human art.
Popularly, Telos was the son of Helios and Halia, the sister of the Telchines. He came to the island in search of herbs to heal his ill mother, and later returned to found a temple to Apollo and Neptune. However, Telos (Telo or Tilo) does not appear in Greek mythology and the name probably has an unknown pre-Hellenic origin.
Telos (Doctor Who), a planet in the television series Doctor Who T-elos, an antagonist in the video game series Xenosaga; Telos is a planet and a character in the DC Comics series Convergence (comics)
A series of dedications to Telo come from Périgueux: on three of these Telo is invoked with another deities: the goddesses Sianna (in 3 inscriptions) [1] [2] [3] and Vesunna (in one inscription). [4] [5] The etymology of the deities Telo and Sianna is closely related to the Roman Apollo and Diana. [6] [7] [8]
Encyklopédia Slovenska. 6 volumes, 1977–1982. Focused on Slovakia. Malá slovenská encyklopédia. 1 volume 1993; Encyclopaedia Beliana. 20 planned volumes, 1999–, 9 volumes published as of 2021; Všeobecný encyklopedický slovník. 2002, four volumes; Slovak Wikipedia. 2003– Univerzum – všeobecná obrazová encyklopédia A - Ž. 1 ...
Plato (left) and Aristotle, depicted here in The School of Athens, both developed philosophical arguments addressing the universe's apparent order (). Teleology (from τέλος, telos, 'end', 'aim', or 'goal', and λόγος, logos, 'explanation' or 'reason') [1] or finality [2] [3] is a branch of causality giving the reason or an explanation for something as a function of its end, its ...
The Telos Painter (Telos-Maler, Peintre de Telos, Telos Group, Telos-Gruppe, Groupe de Telos) is identified as a vase-painter active c. 390–360 BC in Attica, Greece. Consistent stylistic references in finds point to a unique artistic figure, with John Beazley specifying his name-vase after a red-figured bell-krater [ 1 ] in the British Museum .
Tosk or Toskëri may refer to the Tosk-speaking Albanian population of southern Albania and internal subgroups include the Myzeqars of Myzeqe.The Labs of Labëria (name version in Albanian: sing: Lab, pl. Lebër, also dial. sing.: Lap) and Chams of Çamëria are separate southern Albanian subgroups [4] [5] [6] which at times are also included in the category of Tosks due to ethno-cultural and ...