10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RHOMBOS»
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rhombos in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and ...
Seistron and Rhombos Greek musical culture was no different from later — even
much later — musical cultures in liking instruments that simply produced a
colorful sound. The seistron, commonly associated with the Egyptian cult of Isis,
26 was ...
Thomas J. Mathiesen, 1999
2
Performance, Iconography, Reception : Studies in Honour of ...
Rhumbos or, more usually, rhombos, refers to a lozenge-shaped figure, or a
bullroarer, a normally lozenge-shaped instrument swung around the head on a
string to produce an uncanny sound resembling thunder and favoured in
initiation ...
Martin Revermann, Peter Wilson, 2008
3
A Dictionary of Scientific Terms, Pronunciation, Derivation, ...
[Gk. rhodon, rose ; opsis, sight.] A temporary reddish - purple pigment in the
retinal rods ; visual purple (phys.). rhombencephalon (rômb ënkëf'älön, -sëf-) я. [
Gk. rhombos, magic wheel ; engkephalon, brain.] The hind-brain. rhombic (rôm'
blk) a.
Isabella Ferguson Henderson, William Dawson Henderson, 1920
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Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space ...
II The rhombos was an instrument used in mystery-cult that made a roaring sound
by whirling, and rhomboi is here generally translated 'whirlings'. The conflation of
rhomboi with drums implies a confusion of roaring sounds. In this fragment of ...
5
Greek Religion and Society
Rhombos is set off from the ideal kouros by his beard and garment; Kleobis and
Biton only by boots, perhaps in allusion to their trudge with their mother's cart.
What is perhaps the earliest marble statue we possess, an over- life-size figure of
a ...
P. E. Easterling, J. V. Muir, 1985
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A Glossary of Biological, Anatomical, and Physiological Terms
Rhomboid ligament (Gr. rhombos, an equilateral four-sided figure with oblique
angles ; eidos, shape). — A ligament attached to the cartilage of the first rib, and
to the under surface of the clavicle. Rhomboi'deus ma'jor (Gr. rhombos, a rhomb;
...
7
Greek Religious Terminology: Telete & Orgia : a Revised and ...
The same also happens with the rhomboi that are moved in the ceremonies.
When moved gently, they give off a deep sound, but when vigorously, a piercing
sound. The rhombos was used in ceremonies of various nature.63 The
instrument ...
If the defining anatomical feature of Rhombos is his thinly veiled body, the most
noticeable feature of women in sculpture from the same period is clothing. The
allpurpose drapery of the pediments and frieze were definitely not in fashion
during ...
James H. S. McGregor, 2014
The rhombos is carefully described by the scholiast3 on Clement of Alexandria in
commenting on the passage quoted above, in which he describes 'the wholly
inhuman mysteries of Dionysos Zagreus.' The rhombos, says the scholiast, is 'a
bit ...
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A Practical Medical Dictionary ...
Sinus rhomboidalis. rhomboid (rom'boyd) [G. rhombos, a rhomb, + eidos,
appearance.] Rhomboidal, resembling a rhomb, i.e. an oblique parallelogram,
but having unequal sides; noting especially a ligament and two muscles, r.
impress'ion, ...
Thomas Lathrop Stedman, 1922
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RHOMBOS»
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"Ein ziemlich sicherer Weg zum Glück"
Zu ihren Publikationen zählt u.a. "Die Könnensgesellschaft - Mit guter Arbeit aus der Krise" (Rhombos-Verlag, Berlin 2009). In diesem Buch plädiert Christine Ax ... «Wiener Zeitung, Apr 14»
Hommage Gregorju Strniši
Pisal je tudi esejistično pripovedno prozo (Rhombos), mladinska pripovedna dela (Kvadrat pa Pika, Potovanje z bršljanom, Jedca Mesca, Lučka Regrat), ... «SiOL.net, Nov 12»
„Attil und Krimkilte. Das tschuwaschische Epos zum Sagenkreis der …
Das Buch wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Slawisten Christoph Sträßner und dem Nibelungenforscher Mario Bauch im Mai 2011 im Berliner Rhombos-Verlag ... «Eurasisches Magazin, Aug 11»
Heute in den Feuilletons: Gemütlich im Schrank
... oder dem mandeläugigen 'Kalbträger'-Rhombos für ihre Dienste wirbt, keine Parfumerie ohne Kuros und keine U-Bahn-Station ohne adrett inszenierte Ruine. «Spiegel Online, Oct 07»
