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The region lies on the boundary between the Orion Arm, [6] in which the solar system is located, and the Perseus Arm, [7] at a distance estimated at 5,000 light-years; [3] the complex would still be in an early stage of its evolution, as would be evidenced by the presence of some extremely young and concentrated open clusters with bright and ...
Prokopion attempts to kill Perseus, but Kepheus intervenes, and both of them are then crushed by the Kraken's falling claw. Hades confronts Perseus, but the latter, invoking Zeus, hurls his sword at Hades, forcing him back to the Underworld. Ending - Perseus rescues Andromeda, who asks him to rule Argos by her side as king, but he declines.
Other classical works have taken a variety of forms including Andromeda Liberata (1726), a pasticcio-serenata on the subject of Perseus freeing Andromeda, by a team of composers including Vivaldi, [47] and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's Symphony in F (Perseus' Rescue of Andromeda) and Symphony in D (The Petrification of Phineus and his Friends ...
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website. Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol. 1), ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2).
When Perseus beheaded her, Pegasus, a winged horse, and Chrysaor, a giant wielding a golden sword, sprang from her body. [ 9 ] Jane Ellen Harrison argues that "her potency only begins when her head is severed, and that potency resides in the head; she is in a word a mask with a body later appended... the basis of the Gorgoneion is a cultus ...
3.Phthia daughter of Alexander II of Epirus 4.Chryseis (1) Antigonus III Doson king of Macedon 229-221 BC: Echecrates: Prusias I of Bithynia (1) Apama III (4) Philip V king of Macedon 221-179 BC: Polycratia of Argos: Antigonos: Prusias II of Bithynia king of Bithynia: Apame IV (illeg.) Perseus king of Macedon 179-168 BC: Laodice V daughter of ...
Antonio Canova (Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo kaˈnɔːva]; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, [2] [3] famous for his marble sculptures.