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Graea was sometimes said to be the oldest city of Greece. Aristotle said that this city was created before the deluge . The same assertion about the origins of Graea is found in an ancient marble, the Parian Chronicle , discovered in 1687 and dated to 267–263 BCE, that is currently kept in Oxford and on Paros .
Perseus and the Graeae by Edward Burne-Jones (1892). In Greek mythology, the Graeae (/ ˈ ɡ r iː iː /; Ancient Greek: Γραῖαι Graiai, lit. ' old women ', alternatively spelled Graiai), also called the Grey Sisters and the Phorcides (' daughters of Phorcys '), [1] were three sisters who had gray hair from their birth and shared one eye and one tooth among them.
Graeae Theatre Company, often abbreviated to Graeae (pronounced "grey-eye"), is a British organisation composed of deaf and disabled artists and theatre makers. As well as producing theatre which it tours nationally and internationally to traditional theatres and outdoor spaces, Graeae run a large and varied Creative Learning and training programme for emerging, young and mid-career deaf and ...
Graea, an ancient city in Boeotia, is sometimes thought to be the origin of the Latin word Graecus, from which English derives the words Greece and Greeks. The major poets Hesiod and Pindar were Boeotians. Nonetheless, the French use the term béotien ("Boeotian") to denote Philistinism.
In Homer Oropus does not occur, but Graea is mentioned among the Boeotian towns; [13] and this ancient name appears to have been revived by the Athenians as the official title of Oropus. Aristotle said that Oropus was called Graea in his time; [ 14 ] and accordingly we find in an inscription, belonging to this period, the people of Graea ...
Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Phorcys and Ceto as the Graeae (naming only two: Pemphredo, and Enyo), the Gorgons (Stheno, Euryale and Medusa), [6] probably Echidna (though the text is unclear on this point) [7] and Ceto's "youngest, the awful snake who guards the apples all of gold in the secret places of the dark earth at its great bounds", [8] also called the Drakon Hesperios ...
According to the historian Georg Busolt, the Graecians were among the first to colonize Italy (i.e., Magna Graecia) in the 9th century BC when they established the city of Cumae; they were the first Greeks with whom the Latins came into contact, which then made them adopt the name of Graeci by synecdoche as the name of the Hellenes. [2]
Vasco Navarro da Graça Moura, GCSE GCIH OSE (3 January 1942 – 27 April 2014) was a Portuguese lawyer, writer, translator and politician, son of Francisco José da Graça Moura and wife Maria Teresa Amado da Cunha Seixas Navarro de Castro, of Northern Portugal bourgeoisie.