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Epimetheus
Epimetheus , in Greek mythology: see Pandora .
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Commemorating Epimetheus.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2008; 431 words
; 9781557534972 Commemorating Epimetheus. Amis, Les. Trans. by S. Pluhacek...Conventional wisdom holds that Epimetheus was stuck with the useless gift...identified, offers another view: Epimetheus, originally named Awe, learned...
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Saturnian moonscape.(PLANETARY SCIENCE)(Saturn's tiny moon Epimetheus)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 5/21/2005; 565 words
; ...closest view yet of Saturn's tiny moon Epimetheus. Taken by the Cassini spacecraft...craters implies that the surface of Epimetheus is several billion years old. Once...within Saturn's icy rings. Spectra of Epimetheus taken by Cassini's visual and infrared...
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Cassini Captures Swiss-Cheese Look of Saturn Moon.
News Wire article from: AScribe Science News Service; 4/27/2005; 700+ words
; ...An image of Saturn's small moon, Epimetheus (epp-ee-MEE-thee-uss), was...ever taken of the pockmarked body. Epimetheus is irregularly shaped and dotted with...The many large, softened craters on Epimetheus indicate a surface that is several billion...
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Tertullian's Pandora and John Milton's The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...might have kept him from being our true Epimetheus, and though they taught of vertue and...might have kept him from being our true Epimetheus." So, too, Eve had been condemned...with gifts, and Hermes brings her to Epimetheus, the after-thinking brother of forward...
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SARAH LUNDY ON TRACK AT SARATOGA.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/25/1989; 700+ words
; ...horses on the track. The first one, Epimetheus, won a $33,000 allowance race on...Spa session. "This is a nice filly (Epimetheus); she's beginning to look like stakes...was the second victory of the meet for Epimetheus, who was bred in Great Britain by multimillionaire...
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COLUMN: What is a Titan?
News Wire article from: University Wire; 8/21/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...revolted against Cronus with Zeus and his brother Epimetheus. Epimetheus, who was the person that accepted Pandora's box...Prometheus is the Titan you most want to emulate, then Epimetheus is the one you least want to be like. Think Michael...
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FRANKENSTEIN: SYMBOL AND PARABLE
Magazine article from: Australian Screen Education; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...the gods. Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus were spared the wrath of Zeus because...figure that Prometheus molded from mud. Epimetheus was to assign the Earth's creatures...was cunning, fur or wings. However, Epimetheus had run out of attributes when he came...
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Mythos and Logos
Magazine article from: Psychoanalytic Dialogues; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...much. I couldn't." Just then, Epimetheus, whose name means he who knows afterward...late, for Zeus had given Pandora to Epimetheus to have and to hold. Zeus's wedding...a pithos, which means jar. Excited Epimetheus lifted and uncorked Pandora's pithos...
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Saturn 'may be surrounded by undiscovered, near-visible rings'.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 2/25/2008; 700+ words
; ...Cassini images along the orbits of the Saturnian moons Janus, Epimetheus and Pallene. "What's odd is that these inferred ring arcs...undetected in Cassini images, while the rings at Janus, Epimetheus and Pallene orbits, thought to form under the same process...
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High Energy Electron Holes Reveal Unseen Rings.
Magazine article from: Space Daily; 2/26/2008; 700+ words
; ...Cassini images along the orbits of the Saturnian moons Janus, Epimetheus and Pallene. "What's odd is that these inferred ring arcs...undetected in Cassini images, while the rings at Janus, Epimetheus and Pallene orbits, thought to form under the same process...
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Epimetheus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Epimetheus in astronomy, one of the named moons...Also known as Saturn XI (or S11), Epimetheus is an irregularly shaped (nonspherical...ridges, valleys, and grooves as well. Epimetheus and Janus are co-orbital; that is...
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Pandora
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...do with her. However, his brother Epimetheus — afterthought —...from the gods. Some accounts say that Epimetheus opened Pandora's box; others maintain...the Greek gods of Olympus Pandora and Epimetheus had a daughter, Pyrrha, who appears...
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Janus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...probe provided sufficient data to enable Janus to be distinguished from Epimetheus ; today it is difficult to say which one Dollfus really discovered. Janus and Epimetheus are co-orbital, that is, they share the same average orbit; about...
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Prometheus
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...the sea nymph Clymene or the goddess Themis. Atlas* and Epimetheus ("afterthought") were his brothers; Hesione, daughter...forever Zeus sent Pandora as a gift to Prometheus's brother Epimetheus, who married her despite warnings from Prometheus not to...
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Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...was Carl Felix Tandem. He was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature. His chief works include the epics Prometheus und Epimetheus (1881, tr. 1931) and Olympischer Frühling [Olympian spring] (2 vol., 1900-1906; revised version, 1910...
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