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"Myrmidon" later came to mean "hired ruffian", according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Henry Fielding in Tom Jones (1749, Book XV, ch. 5) employs the term in the sense of "hired thugs": "The door flew open, and in came Squire Western, with his parson and a set of myrmidons at his heels." The Royal Navy has had several ships called HMS Myrmidon.
Myrmidon was the son of Zeus and Eurymedusa, [4] daughter of Cleitor (Cletor) [5] or of the river god Achelous. [6]He married Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus and Enarete, and by her became the father of Antiphus and Actor. [7]
Myrmidon of Athens, an Athenian commander of the 4th century BC; Myrmidon Club, a dining club at Merton College, University of Oxford; Operation Myrmidon, a planned raid during the Second World War on the Adour Estuary in south-western France; Myrmidons of Melodrama, a compilation album by American pop girl group The Shangri-Las
In Greek mythology, the name Myrmidone (Ancient Greek: Μυρμιδών, romanized: Myrmidón) may refer to: . Myrmidone, one of the Danaïdes, who married and killed Mineus, a son of Aegyptus.
Fragment of a Hellenistic relief (1st century BC–1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff ...
“It’s a big shift,” Alan Bubitz, Costco’s VP of food services, told BevNET at the time. “They’re the only vendor we’ve ever had for the majority of the business locations.”
Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...
The report also called out different rates of risk factors among different races and ethnic groups. Black women were found to have the highest rate of obesity (57.9%) and Asian women had the ...