Thrace : region east of Macedonia, on the Aegean & the Black Sea & extending north to the Danube. In the Trojan War, Thracians fought under Rhesus as allies of Troy.
... Always like waves that swallow the shingles, lapsing, returning, Tide of the battle, race of the onset relentlessly thundered Over the Phrygian corn-fields. Trojan wrestled with Argive, Caria, Lycia, Thrace and the war-lord mighty Achaia Joined in the clasp of the fight. Death, panic and wounds and disaster, Glory of conquest and glory of fall, and the empty hearth-side, Weeping and fortitude, terror... came, but he sleeps, and the faces swart of his nation Page 349 Darken no more like a cloud over thunder and surge of the onset. Wearily Lycia fights; far fled are the Carian levies. Thrace retreats to her plains preferring the whistle of stormwinds Or on the banks of the Strymon to wheel in her Orphean measure, Not in the revel of swords and fronting the spears of the Hellenes. Princes... then your feeble roar and your ear to the past and the distance Turn. You fields that are famous for ever, reply for me calling, Fields of the mighty mown by my sword's edge, Chersonese conquered, Thrace and her snows where we fought on the frozen streams and were victors Then when they were unborn who are now your delight and your leaders. Answer return, you columns of Ilus, here where my counsels ...
... she was destined to have a son who would be greater than his father. He consequently gave her in marriage to Peleus, king of Phthia, to whom she bore Achilles. Thrace: Region situated in the Balkan Peninsula; ancient Thrace extended to the Danube and included what is now modern Turkey (European side). Titans: Immortal children bom to Gaia (the earth) and Uranus (the sky), the titans... Later on, Athene fixed the Gorgon's head at the center of her breast-plate, the Aegis. Grace: Goddess of the beauty, brightness and joy in Nature and humanity. Hecate: Native of ancient Thrace, she was originally a moon goddess. Her name seems to be a feminine form of a title of Apollo, "the far darter". She and Helios together witnessed the abduction of Persephone by Hades. Hecate was ...
... him playing the lyre, surrounded by birds, wild . beasts or his Thracian disciples. He is pictured as a gentle spirit, tender, meditative, affectionate. According to legend, Orpheus lived and died in Thrace, sometimes a musician, sometimes a reforming ascetic, priest of Dionysus. Legend tells us that he married the nymph Eurydice whom he passionately loved. One day she was mortally bitten by a snake.... y Dionysus means "The Zeus of Nisa." And he seems by several similarities of legend and function to be the Greek form of the Vedic god Soma. It is normally accepted that the cradle of his cult was Thrace. The exuberance of the legends of Dionysus is explained not only by his great popularity but because he absorbed within himself many other foreign deities. The identification of Dionysus with the Cretan ...
... treatment at the end of the war. The British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, declared on Jan. 5, 1918 that the Allies were "not fighting to deprive Turkey of the rich and renowned lands of Asia Minor and Thrace, which are predominantly Turkish in race". And President Wilson too endorsed this view in his message to the American Congress. These specific assurances by leading statesmen of Allied countries led... dominions were concerned would be maintained. But all these hopes were doomed to disappointment - the reason, the terms of the Armistice and the Treaty of Sevres in August 1920, after the end of the war. Thrace was presented to Greece, and the Asiatic portions of the Turkish Empire were put under the control of England and France in the guise of Mandates. While Turkey was dispossessed of her homelands, her ...
... and the shell. Sarajevo and Belgium were mere determining circumstances; to get to the root causes we have to go back as far at least as Agadir and Algeciras. From Morocco to Tripoli, from Tripoli to Thrace and Macedonia, from Macedonia to Herzegovina the electric chain ran with that inevitable logic of causes and results, actions and their fruits which we call Karma, creating minor detonations on its ...
... and of purification by punishment in the underworld belong to Orphism, a primitive but in some ways remarkably enlightened Page 85 religion which perhaps came to Greece from Thrace and certainly inspired the "mystery cults" which were practiced in various parts of Greece, especially at Eleusis in Attica. 41 The Great King: The king of Persia, regarded as ...
... soul's immortality and rebirth, and of purification by punishment in the underworld belong to Orphism, a primitive but in some ways remarkably enlightened religion which perhaps came to Greece from Thrace and certainly inspired the "mystery cults" which were practised in various parts of Greece, especially at Eleusis in Attica. The Great King: The king of Persia, regarded as a type of ...
... AUROBINDO: If she has any sense she ought to. The British can't send an army. Unfortunately the Greeks are not good fighters. If the Turks come in, then they can put up a fight. They have their army in Thrace. PURANI: Turkey spoke some time ago about giving help to Greece, an alliance, probably. SRI AUROBINDO: Alliance or understanding? PURANI: May be understanding. SRI AUROBINDO: Turks usually ...
... far inland to be conveniently assailed from the sea. The city's trade grew rapidly. As Will Durant points out: "From the lower Aegean came copper, olive oil, wine, and pottery; from the Danube and Thrace came pottery, amber, horses and swords; from distant China came so great a rarity as jade. In return Troy brought from the interior, and exported, timber, silver, gold, and wild asses. Sealed proudly ...
... Asia and aimed at sole sovereignty over Alexander's empire. Against him and his son Demetrius in long years of fighting was arrayed a coalition of Ptolemy of Egypt, Seleucus of Babylon, Lysimachus of Thrace, and Cassander, son of Antipater of Macedonia. The monarchy, by which the unity of the empire could still be formally maintained, soon disappeared; King Philip Arrhidaeus was murdered and the little ...
... Always like waves that swallow the shingles, lapsing, returning, Tide of the battle, race of the onset relentlessly thundered Over the Phrygian corn-fields. Trojan wrestled with Argive, Caria, Lycia, Thrace and the war-lord mighty Achaia Joined in the clasp of the fight. Death, panic and wounds and disaster, Glory of conquest and glory of fall, and the empty hearth-side, Weeping and fortitude, terror ...
... became Christian did the cult spread. Epiphanius (Haereses, LXXIX) locates its beginning in the East where the imperial decrees against the old religions first took effect: he mentions Arabia and Thrace and the details he provides show that it replaced the popular cult of Ceres and Cybele. In Armenia it supplanted the cult of Anahita. In places like Rome where paganism continued a long time and ...
... renders the title especially appropriate to the Seleucids. We learn from the Encyclopaedia Britannica: 1 "After his (Alexander's) death his deified portrait appeared on the coins of Lysimachus in Thrace and on the early coins of Ptolemy I in Egypt. It is not till 306 [B.C.] that we have a portrait of a living king on his coins when Ptolemy I appears, still as a god with the aegis of Zeus. Seleucus ...
... the Greek camp. Priam: king of Troy, father of Hector and Paris. Thetis: sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus, married to Peleus and by him the mother of the hero Achilles. Thrace: country north of the Aegean and the Hellespont; its inhabitants fought as Trojan allies. Tripod: a vessel on three legs. Trojan, son of Priam. Troilus: Trojan, son of Priam. ...
... But the "egoism" of the national State dies hard. The war of 1914-18 was itself the resultant of the violent clash of several national egoisms: From Morocco to Tripoli, from Tripoli to Thrace and Macedonia, from Macedonia to Herzegovina the electric chain ran with that inevitable logic of causes and results, actions and their fruits which we call Karma, creating minor detonations on its ...
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