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Tithonus has been taken by the allegorist to mean ‘a grant of a stretching-out’ (from teinō and ōnė), a reference to the stretching-out of his life, at Eos’s plea; but it is likely, rather, to have been a masculine form of Eos’s own name, Titonë – from titō, ‘day [2] and onë, ‘queen’ – and to have meant ‘partner of the Queen of Day’.
"Tithonus" is a poem by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92), originally written in 1833 as "Tithon" and completed in 1859. It first appeared in the February edition of the Cornhill Magazine in 1860.
The Tithonus poem is twelve lines long, [11] and is in a metre called "acephalous Hipponacteans with internal double-choriambic expansion". [12] It is the fourth poem by Sappho to be sufficiently complete to treat as an entire work, along with the Ode to Aphrodite , fragment 16 , and fragment 31 ; [ 13 ] a fifth, the Brothers Poem , was ...
Responsibilities and a Play was printed and published by Yeats's sister, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, at the Cuala Press in 1914. 400 copies were published. [1]The work contained thirty one poems and a new version of the play The Hour Glass, which was originally written in collaboration with Lady Gregory, but now presented in a new version.
In structuralism-influenced studies of mythology, a mytheme is a fundamental generic unit of narrative structure (typically involving a relationship between a character, an event, and a theme) from which myths are thought to be constructed [1] [2] —a minimal unit that is always found shared with other, related mythemes [citation needed] and reassembled in various ways ("bundled") [3] or ...
Tithonus was the son of Laomedon of Troy and fell in love with Eos, the Greek goddess of dawn. His name was chosen by Albert Oppel for this stratigraphical stage because the Tithonian finds itself hand in hand with the dawn of the Cretaceous. [4] The base of the Tithonian stage is at the base of the ammonite biozone of Hybonoticeras hybonotum.
Ego Dominus Tuus, Latin for "I am your lord", sometimes translated as "I am your master", is a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.It was published in the 1918 book Per Amica Silentia Lunae, where it introduced some of Yeats's essays, and collected with other poems in The Wild Swans at Coole (1919).
The Butterfly Revolution is a novel by author William Butler, first published in 1961. [1] Plot. Winston Weynes is sent to Camp High Pines as a gift for his birthday ...