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Lina Radke, for example, the German middle distance runner who won gold in 1928, wore Dassler track shoes. [7] Likewise, a German gold medal runner wore Dassler shoes at the 1932 Los Angeles games. [11] The second key factor for the shoe firm in the early 1930s was the role sport played in the racial-nationalist philosophy of Hitler.
In the Iliad, occasional syntactic inconsistency may be an oral tradition effect—for example, Aphrodite is "laughter-loving" despite being painfully wounded by Diomedes (Book V, 375); and the divine representations may mix Mycenaean and Greek Dark Age (c. 1150–800 BC) mythologies, parallelling the hereditary basileis nobles (lower social ...
Hermes, messenger of the gods, leads Priam into Achilles' camp in book 24. Iris, messenger of Zeus and Hera. Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquake, brother of Zeus. Curses Odysseus. Scamander, river god who fought on the side of the Trojans during the Trojan War; Thetis, a sea nymph or goddess. Mother of Achilles, wife of Peleus.
Adidas Forum is a line of shoes released by Adidas in 1984. The shoe was originally released as a basketball shoe and was the first shoe by the company to be offered in a low model. The shoe was originally released as a basketball shoe and was the first shoe by the company to be offered in a low model.
Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first publication, with first lines provided to illustrate the style of the translation.
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In Book 14, Ajax throws a giant rock at Hector which almost kills him. [10] In Book 15, Hector is restored to his strength by Apollo and returns to attack the ships. Ajax, wielding an enormous spear as a weapon and leaping from ship to ship, holds off the Trojan armies virtually single-handedly. In Book 16, Hector and Ajax duel once again.
Bessarion collected over a thousand books in the fifteenth century, including the only complete text of Athenaios' Deipnosophistai; the autograph of Planudes' Greek Anthology; and Venetus A. In 1468, Bessarion donated his library to the Republic of Venice, and the library was increased by further acquisitions from Bessarion until his death in ...