Dionysus Cup, possibly referencing the seventh Homeric Hymn
The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek
hymns and one
epigram. They praise deities of the
Greek pantheon and retell mythological stories, such as the
abduction of Persephone and the seduction of
Anchises by
Aphrodite. In antiquity, the hymns were generally attributed to the poet
Homer: modern scholarship has established that they vary widely in date. Performances of the hymns may have taken place at
sympotic banquets, religious festivals and royal courts. They may originally have been performed by singers accompanying themselves on a
lyre. The hymns influenced
Alexandrian and Roman poets, and both pagan and early Christian literature. They were first published in print by
Demetrios Chalkokondyles in 1488–1489, while
George Chapman made the first English translation of them in 1624. They have since influenced, among others,
Handel,
Goethe,
Shelley,
Tennyson and
Cavafy. Their influence has also been traced in the novels of
James Joyce and
Neil Gaiman, and in the films of
Alfred Hitchcock. (Full article...)
The edible frog or green frog (Pelophylax kl. esculentus) is a common European frog species that occurs naturally from the northern half of France to western Russia and from Estonia and Denmark to Bulgaria and northern Italy, and is also an
introduced species in other parts of the continent. It is a fertile
hybrid of the
pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae) and the
marsh frog (P. ridibundus) and
reproduces using hybridogenesis, a process in which one parental genome is excluded. The species is used as food – particularly in France, as well as Germany and Italy – as the delicacy
frog legs. This edible frog was photographed in the
Danube delta east of
Tulcea, Romania.
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Dionysus Cup, possibly referencing the seventh Homeric Hymn
The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek
hymns and one
epigram. They praise deities of the
Greek pantheon and retell mythological stories, such as the
abduction of Persephone and the seduction of
Anchises by
Aphrodite. In antiquity, the hymns were generally attributed to the poet
Homer: modern scholarship has established that they vary widely in date. Performances of the hymns may have taken place at
sympotic banquets, religious festivals and royal courts. They may originally have been performed by singers accompanying themselves on a
lyre. The hymns influenced
Alexandrian and Roman poets, and both pagan and early Christian literature. They were first published in print by
Demetrios Chalkokondyles in 1488–1489, while
George Chapman made the first English translation of them in 1624. They have since influenced, among others,
Handel,
Goethe,
Shelley,
Tennyson and
Cavafy. Their influence has also been traced in the novels of
James Joyce and
Neil Gaiman, and in the films of
Alfred Hitchcock. (Full article...)
The edible frog or green frog (Pelophylax kl. esculentus) is a common European frog species that occurs naturally from the northern half of France to western Russia and from Estonia and Denmark to Bulgaria and northern Italy, and is also an
introduced species in other parts of the continent. It is a fertile
hybrid of the
pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae) and the
marsh frog (P. ridibundus) and
reproduces using hybridogenesis, a process in which one parental genome is excluded. The species is used as food – particularly in France, as well as Germany and Italy – as the delicacy
frog legs. This edible frog was photographed in the
Danube delta east of
Tulcea, Romania.
If you find this page on a site other than Wikipedia, be aware that you are viewing a copy of the page a on mirror site, with which the user Tbone55 is not personally affiliated. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tbone55.