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Eros
Eros , in Greek religion and mythology, god of love. He was the personification of love in all its manifestations, including physical passion at its strongest, tender, romantic love, and playful, sportive love. According to some legends he was one of the oldest of the gods, born from Chaos and... Read more |
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Psyche
Psyche , in Greek mythology, personification of the human soul. She was so lovely that Eros (Cupid), the god of love, fell in love with her. He swept her off to a beautiful, isolated castle but forbade her to look at him since he was a god. When she disobeyed, he abandoned her, but she ceaselessly... Read more |
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George Barker
George Barker (George Granville Barker), 1913-91, English poet, b. Essex, England. He has taught in Japan and the United States as well as in England. His highly dramatic poems, often concerned with themes of remorse and pain, led critics to place him—perhaps misleadingly—among the ... Read more |
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Death instinct
DEATH INSTINCT (THANATOS) The death instinct or death drive is the force that makes living creatures strive for an inorganic state. It does not appear in isolation; its effect becomes apparent, in particular through the repetition compulsions, when a part of it is connected with Eros. Its tendency... Read more |
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Charles Dillon Perrine
PERRINE, CHARLES DILLON (b. Steubenville, Ohio, 28 June 1867; d. Villa General Mitre, Argentina, 21 July 1951) astronomy. After a brief career in business, Perrine, who was skilled in photography, became professionally interested in astronomy. In 1893 he joined the staff at the Lick Observatory... Read more |
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Sir Alfred Gilbert
Gilbert, Sir Alfred (1854–1934). British sculptor and metalworker, born in London. He originally intended becoming a surgeon, but after failing the entrance examination at the Middlesex Hospital in 1872 he turned to art, training in London at Heatherley's School and the Royal Academy, and... Read more |
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putto
putto (Italian: ‘little boy’). Term applied to a representation of a chubby, naked child, sometimes winged, appearing—usually as a subsidiary figure—in a work of art. Putti have been a frequent motif of decorative art since classical antiquity and may have a pagan,... Read more |
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Aphrodite
Aphrodite , in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of fertility, love, and beauty. Homer designated her the child of Zeus and Dione. Hesiod's account of her birth is more popular: she supposedly rose from the foam of the sea where Uranus' genitals had fallen after he had been mutilated by Kronos.... Read more |
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse , 1898-1979, U.S. political philosopher, b. Berlin. He was educated at the Univ. of Freiburg and with Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer founded the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research. A special target of the Nazis because of his Jewish origins and Marxist politics, he emigrated... Read more |
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Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore 1823-96, English poet. Patmore's first poetry, published in 1844, led to an assistant librarianship (1846-65) at the British Museum. His principal works are The Angel in the House (in 4 books, 1854, 1856, 1860, 1863), a long poem that exalts the sanctity of married... Read more |
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Cupid
Cupid • noun have you been pierced by the arrow of Cupid?synonyms: Eros, the god of love; amoretto. |
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Cupid/cupid
Cupid/cupid • noun 1. a statue of Cupidsynonyms: god of love, Eros. 2. acting cupidsynonyms: matchmaker, marriage broker. |
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...and Goddesses Greek Aeolus Amphitrite Aphrodite Apollo (Phoebus) Ares Artemis Asclepius Athena Cronus Demeter Dionysus Eos Eros Gaia Hebe Hecate Helios Hephaestus Hera Hermes Hestia Hygeia Hymen Hypnos Iris Momus Nemesis Nereus Oceanus Orpheus Pan Paris... |
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Eros to Enter Looks to Purchase Control Of B4U
Wireless News 04-30-2012 Eros to Enter Looks to Purchase Control Of B4UType...described by the Company, include: -Eros will acquire the approximately 76 percent...closing; -approximately $5.7 million in Eros A ordinary shares upon the earlier of 14... |
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Eros to Enter Definitive Agreement to Acquire Control Of B4U.
Eros International, a global company in the Indian...as described by the Company, include: -Eros will acquire the approximately 76 percent...closing; -approximately $5.7 million in Eros A ordinary shares upon the earlier of 14 business... |
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Eros drives us toward God.(Opinion & Editorial)
...Rolando V Dela Rosa IS. Eliot once described eros as the "love that we feel between the...other activity in the animal kingdom. Eros was thus equated with impersonal, unromantic...carefully retrieves the original meaning of eros and restores it to respectability. As... |
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Eros, meeting point of the sensual and spiritual
...Rozi Ali New Straits Times 04-15-2003 Eros, meeting point of the sensual and spiritualByline...sensuous. Spirituality is erotic. There is eros in everyday things - a touch, a look and a word that exhilarates the being. There is eros and consequently, eroticism in the pursuit... |
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Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of...
TOWARD A THEOLOGY OF EROS: TRANSFIGURING PASSION AT THE LIMITS OF DISCIPLINE...nothing new about the theological realizations of eros: as Catherine Keller asserts, both "theology" and "eros" have Platonic roots (366). The essays are sumptuous... |
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The fury of Eros.
From a preface, by Peter Marin, to Eros, a collection of poems by William Wallis...accident that of all the ancient gods only Eros has preserved in the modern age the same...behavior long ago haunted human fate. But Eros remains a power beyond our social order... |
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NEAR at Eros: Imaging and Spectral Results.(asteroid structure revealed by...
...spacecraft carried out an unintended flyby of Eros, coming within 3800 km on 23 December...slow the spacecraft's speed relative to Eros from about 1 km/s to only 10 m/s...successfully into an initial orbit around Eros on 14 February 2000. Eros, discovered... |
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Eros To Invest Rs. 5-7 Crore On Content Digitization
India, Feb. 2 -- Eros International is setting up an inhouse 'Digital Asset Management...95% EBITDA margin deal," CEO Kishore Lulla said on the Eros' Q3-FY11 conference call. Eros' catalog content currently accounts for 10-15% of its... |
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Human discourse, eros, and madness in Plato's Republic.(relation between...
...soul by contriving "to make in him some eros, a sort of great winged drone, to be...Adeimantus responds to this account of eros and madness with the claim that Socrates...Socrates' description of the role of eros in the genesis of the tyrant contains the... |
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Eros To Invest Rs. 5-7 Crore On Content Digitization.
India, Feb. 2 -- Eros International is setting up an inhouse 'Digital Asset Management...95% EBITDA margin deal," CEO Kishore Lulla said on the Eros' Q3-FY11 conference call. Eros' catalog content currently accounts for 10-15% of its... |
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