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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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Eros
Eros, in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, is the faithful attendant of Antony, who kills himself to avoid killing his master. |
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kiss
...those connected with the myth of Psyche and Eros; one of the most favoured by the Christians...the human soul of the departed, and Eros — always a powerful god of love. Nicolas...depict a wedding union in heaven. It is Eros who bestows the kiss, with all the suggestion... |
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Daphne
Daphne Nymph in Greek mythology. Apollo, struck by a gold-tipped arrow of Eros, fell in love with Daphne. She had been shot with one of Eros' leaden points, and so scorned all men. To protect her from Apollo, the gods transformed her into a laurel tree. |
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Barker, George Granville
...1935); Calamiterror (1937, a semi-political poem inspired by the Spanish Civil War); Lament and Triumph (1940); Eros in Dogma (1944); and Collected Poems 1930–1965 (1965). Barker's earlier work is characteristically rhetorical, Dionysiac... |
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Saltus, Edgar (Evertson)
...The Pace That Kills (1889); Madame Sapphira (1893); Enthralled (1894); The Pomps of Satan (1904); The Perfume of Eros (1905); Vanity Square (1906); The Monster (1912), which he made into an unproduced play, The Gates of Life; and The... |
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Aiken, Conrad (Potter)
...crises in a man's life as husband, father, and artist. His stories have appeared in Bring! Bring! (1925), Costumes by Eros (1928), and Among the Lost People (1934), the last‐named including “Mr. Arcularis,” dramatized by the author... |
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Jones, Russell Celyn
...and a successful actress; An Interference of Light (1995), describing a homosexual affair in a Welsh mining community; The Eros Hunter (1998), a gripping policier set in contemporary London; and Surface Tension (2001). These books are notable for... |
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Marcuse, Herbert
...for the US government (1941–50). Marcuse's advocacy of civil resistance found favour with left-wing students of the 1960s. His works include Eros and Civilization (1955) and One-Dimensional Man (1964). See also alienation |
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Pickard, Tom
...Modern Tower in Newcastle, including a reading by Bunting, whose work he did much to revive. He has published several collections, from High on the Walls (1967) to Tiepin Eros: New and Selected Poems (1994). See Underground Poetry. |
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Psyche
Psyche In Greek mythology, a beautiful mortal woman loved by Eros. She was also the personification of the soul. |
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Eros
Eros Asteroid 433, discovered in 1898 by the German...Frenchman Auguste Charlois (1864–1910). Eros was the first known asteroid with an orbit...Shoemaker space probe went into orbit around Eros in 2000 February, photographing its ancient... |
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EROS
EROS (ˈɪərɒs) earth resources observation satellite• Astronautics experimental reflection orbital shot |
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NEAR Shoemaker
...probe launched in 1996February to the asteroid Eros. Originally known as Near-Earth Asteroid...renamed NEAR Shoemaker after entering orbit around Eros in honour of E.Shoemaker. On the way to Eros it passed and photographed (253) Mathilde... |
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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
...experiment was also performed to estimate the gravity field of Eros. On 27 June 1997, the NEAR spacecraft approached to within...of Mathilde. The spacecraft reached and achieved orbit around Eros, returning large amounts of data, and at the end of its mission... |
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Adams, John (Coolidge)
...Tromba lontana (1986); Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986); The Chairman Dances (1987); Fearful Symmetries (1988); Eros Piano, pf., orch. or chamber orch. (1989); El Dorado (1991); Chamber Symphony (1991); vn. conc. (1993).VOICE... |
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asteroid
...Meteorites are probable samples of the asteroid belt. See APOLLO (1862); CASTALIA (4769); CERES (1); CHIRON (2060); EROS (433); GASPRA (951); GEOGRAPHOS (1620); ICARUS (1566); IDA (243); JUNO (3); MCAULIFFE (3352); MATHILDE... |
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Ballesteros
...Hypnos • Minos •Mykonos • tripos • topos • Atropos •Ballesteros, pharos, Saros •Imbros • criss-cross • rallycross • Eros •albatross • monopteros • Dos Passos •Náxos • Hyksos • Knossos • Santos •benthos •bathos, pathos •ethos • Kórinthos |
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bugloss
...Hypnos • Minos •Mykonos • tripos • topos • Atropos •Ballesteros, pharos, Saros •Imbros • criss-cross • rallycross • Eros •albatross • monopteros • Dos Passos •Náxos • Hyksos • Knossos • Santos •benthos •bathos, pathos •ethos • Kórinthos |
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criss-cross
...Hypnos • Minos •Mykonos • tripos • topos • Atropos •Ballesteros, pharos, Saros •Imbros • criss-cross • rallycross • Eros •albatross • monopteros • Dos Passos •Náxos • Hyksos • Knossos • Santos •benthos •bathos, pathos •ethos • Kórinthos |
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Eos
...Hypnos • Minos •Mykonos • tripos • topos • Atropos •Ballesteros, pharos, Saros •Imbros • criss-cross • rallycross • Eros •albatross • monopteros • Dos Passos •Náxos • Hyksos • Knossos • Santos •benthos •bathos, pathos •ethos • Kórinthos |
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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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Cupid
Cupid • noun have you been pierced by the arrow of Cupid?synonyms: Eros, the god of love; amoretto. |
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god
...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 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 AND JAMAN ANNOUNCE INTERNATIONAL LICENSING PARTNERSHIP.
...statement. Contact details below.) BW)(CA-JAMAN/EROS) Eros and Jaman Announce International Licensing Partnership...MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE) - May. 16, 2008-- Eros International, the leading global studio of Indian filmed... |
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Eros, Intel align to launch 'B On Demand', world's largest official on-demand...
...M2 PRESSWIRE-6 January 2006-INTEL: Eros, Intel align to launch 'B On Demand...Intel Viiv technology; Audiences to access Eros' content library via www.bondemand...SHOW, LAS VEGAS - Intel Corporation and Eros International, the single largest international... |
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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 ... |
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Intel, Eros Take On-Demand Bollywood Entertainment Worldwide; Eros's...
...January 2007-INTEL CORPORATION: Intel, Eros Take On-Demand Bollywood Entertainment Worldwide; Eros's Bollywood Blockbusters Leap from PC to...PCs connected to TVs, Intel Corporation and Eros International, today announced the debut... |
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Intel, Eros Take On-Demand 'Bollywood' Entertainment Worldwide.
Eros's Bollywood Blockbusters Leap from PC to TVs via Intel...entertainment to PCs connected to TVs, Intel Corporation and Eros International today announced the debut of Eros's premium Bollywood service on Intel[R] Viiv[TM] technology... |
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Intel, Eros take on-demand Bollywood' entertainment worldwide; Eros's...
...PRESSWIRE-15 January 2007-INTEL: Intel, Eros take on-demand Bollywood' entertainment worldwide; Eros's Bollywood blockbusters leap from PC to...connected to TVs, Intel Corporation and Eros International, today announced the debut... |
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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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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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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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