10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRAIAE»
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Ioannae
Graiae litterae ad H. Bullingerum, nebst deutscher ...
Jane Grey (lady.) »seeg*> 33 <*as*w circumstances in which these letters , but
principally the first , have been written. These letters have been partially edited at
different periods in Switzerland , and complete in : Epistolae ab Ecclesiae ...
2
Greek and Egyptian Mythologies
THE. GORGONS. The three Gorgons, daughters of Phorcys and Ceto, who were
marine deities, lived in the far west, beyond Oceanus and the Hesperides and
beyond their sisters, the Graiae, who guarded the entrance to their country.
The Graiae had looked the same way for centuries, long before I was born, and
even long before Zeus was born. They weren't really women, but they appeared
that way—very old women clad in faded rags, their skin even more gray and
aged ...
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Opuscula Tria de Deo Quoad Opera Praedestinationis, ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Laurentius Cardinalis Brancati, 2012
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Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies
Below Study for Perseus and the Graiae by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1 833- 1
898). The three Graiae or "gray ones" were sisters. They were guardians of the
Gorgons. Gray-haired from birth, the siblings were Deino ("dread"), Enyo ("horror"
), ...
Struik Publishers, Janet Parker, Alice Mills, Julie Stanton, 2007
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The Disability Studies Reader
In the hall of mirrors that is world mythology, there are none more ghastly, more
disturbing to the eye, than the three Graiae, sisters of Medusa—whose own
ghastliness turns onlookers to stone. Possessed of a single eye and six empty
eye ...
7
Foreign Bodies: Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology
The Graiae are exemplary in this respect. Like the Cyclopean triad in He- siod (
Theog. 149: Brontes, Steropes, Arges), the Graiae also come in threes (
Pemphredo, Dino, Enyo: ibid., 270-73). These gray old ladies share a single eye
in their ...
8
The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability
He found Medusa by stealing the one eye and one tooth shared by the Graiae
and withholding these items until the Graiae agreed to help him. Perseus killed
Medusa by decapitating her while looking into his brightly polished shield, which
...
David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, 1997
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Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon
Under the direction of Hermes and the goddess Athena, Perseus began his quest
by first making an expedition to visit the Graiae. The Graiae were three sisters
named Enyo, Pemphredo, and Dino. They were the daughters of Ketos the sea ...
... aequis et uelut hospitio mundi commercia iungunt conceduntque suas partis
retinentibus astris. quam partem Graiae dixere decanica gentes. ut optima lectio
maiore librorum auctoritate stabilita sordeie debeat, quam insuper confirmant
Sen.
Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman, 2011
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRAIAE»
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Empire and elephants: Tristram Hunt on how the Victorians sculpted …
At the other end of the aesthetic spectrum is Edward Burne-Jones's Perseus and the Graiae (1877). Ordered by the Tory politician Lord Balfour ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
