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Pseudo-Nonnus, also called Nonnus Abbas (i.e. "Nonnus the Abbot"), was a 6th-century commentator on Gregory of Nazianzus. His Commentaries consist of
Pseudo-Nonnus
Topics referred to by the same term
Theophanes Nonnus, a 10th-century Byzantine physician Pseudo-Nonnus also called Nonnus Abbas (i.e. "Nonnus the Abbot"), a 6th-century AD commentator on Gregory
Nonnus_(disambiguation)
Ancient Greek author
Deipnosophistae, Book 14, §660e Identification from Pseudo-Nonnus: A Christian’s guide to Greek culture : the Pseudo-Nonnus commentaries on Sermons 4, 5, 39, and 43
Palaephatus
5th-century Greek epic poet
composition of Pseudo-Apollinaris' Metaphrase of the Psalms (c. 460), which seems to refer to Nonnus's poem. A complete and updated bibliography of Nonnus scholarship
Nonnus
Figure in Greek mythology
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.564–565. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 6.165. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 10.294. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 39.72. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44.255. Pseudo-Nonnus
Zagreus
Ancient Greek god of winemaking and wine
Fabulae 14. Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 7. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.26–28 (I pp. 4, 5), 48.245–247 (III pp. 440–443), 48.848–968 (III pp. 484–493). Nonnus, Dionysiaca
Dionysus
Multi-headed dog in Greek mythology
apparently unique version of the story, related by the sixth-century AD Pseudo-Nonnus, Heracles descended into Hades to abduct Persephone, and killed Cerberus
Cerberus
Ancient Greek hero
quoting Apollodorus Mythographus, 2.7.4. Description of Greece 2.4.6. Pseudo-Nonnus, On Gregory of Nazianzus 1; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 17; Eustathius On
Bellerophon
Greek goddess of spring and the queen of the underworld
4 Aelian, Animalium, 9.36 Lucian tr. Fowler, Aphrodite and the Moon Pseudo-Nonnus, Commentary on Gregory of Nazianzus 38 Archived 21 January 2023 at the
Persephone
Mythological man associated with Dionysus
Clement, Exhortation to the Greeks 2.34.2-5 Christopoulos 2023, pp. 68–9. Pseudo-Nonnus' scholia on the Epiphany 6 Liddell & Scott 1940, s.v. ὄρχις. Tzetzes
Prosymnus
Male nature spirit with horse or goat features found in Greek mythology
108 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.106 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 11.5, 14.286 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.110 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 10.400 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.111 Nonnus, Dionysiaca
Satyr
Wife of Odysseus in Greek mythology
56. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus). 7.38. Gaius Julius Hyginus. Fabulae. 224. Pausanias. Description of Greece. 8.12.5. Nonnus. Dionysiaca
Penelope
Designation for the Egyptian pyramids often used by early travelers
competing explanations for the purpose of the Pyramids. For example, Pseudo-Nonnus writes: "The Pyramids are themselves worthy of viewing, and were built
Joseph's_granaries
Greek god of blacksmiths
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 29.333 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.135–43 Shorrock, Robert (2001). The Challenge of Epic: Allusive Engagement in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus
Hephaestus
Greek and Roman mythological creature
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2.11. Larson, p. 283 n. 31, citing Nonnus, Dionysiaca 24.99. Nonnus. Dionysiaca 43.53. Hesiod, Theogony 182–187 Hesiod, Theogony
Nymph
Legendary princess of Athens, sister of Philomele
name what bird each sister turned into. A late antiquity scholiast, Pseudo-Nonnus, names Zeus specifically as the god who put an end to the chase by transforming
Procne
6th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher
isolated sayings attributed to Theano and a passage in the scholia of Pseudo-Nonnus are found in Syriac translation (from lost Greek originals). Plant 2004
Theano_(philosopher)
creatures, referring to the salamander, as indicated by his commentator Pseudo-Nonnus, who said it was the size of a lizard or a small crocodile, though land-dwelling
Salamanders_in_folklore
Ancient Greek goddess of the Moon
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and can be seen here. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.213–223. Ovid, Fasti 3.409–410. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 11.167–223. Stuttard, p. 114; Lucian
Selene
Figure in Greek and Roman mythology
of her daughter Andromeda and her own downfall. Her origins are obscure. Nonnus calls her a nymph, while according to Stephanus she was called Iope, the
Cassiopeia (mother of Andromeda)
Cassiopeia_(mother_of_Andromeda)
Mythical character, father of Orpheus
Poems 3.17 Pseudo-Apollodorus. "Bibliotheca". Theoi.com. Retrieved March 2, 2013. Hyginus, Fabulae 165 Nonnus, 13.428 Nonnus, 13.428–431 Nonnus, 19.70, 19
Oeagrus
4th century book of excerpts from Origen
from Jennifer Nimmo Smith, A Christian's guide to Greek culture: the Pseudo-Nonnus Commentaries, p.xx, n.17. J. Armitage Robinson, The Philocalia of Origen:
Philocalia_(Origen)
Nymph in Greek mythology
Alternatively, Artemis killed Callisto for not protecting her virginity. Nonnus also writes that a "female paramour entered a woman's bed." Either Artemis
Callisto_(mythology)
Greek god and personification of the Sun
or Crete. Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers 5.1 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26.351, Nonnus calls her a Naiad, but says that her father is Oceanus. Nonnus, Dionysiaca
Helios
God of war in ancient Greek religion
Naturalis Historia 7.57. Pseudo-Plutarch, Greek and Roman Parallel Stories, 23. Hyginus, Fabulae 198, 242; Tripp, s.v. Nisus. Nonnus, Dionysiaca XIII.428
Ares
Figure in Greek mythology
Nonnus, 3.284–285; Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10, p. 123, ll. 41-42 Nonnus, 32.70 Apollodorus, 2.1.4 Hyginus, Fabulae 149 Pausanias, 1.44.3; Nonnus
Epaphus
Daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe
of two Titans. A different version was added by the fifth-century poet Nonnus who recounted that, after Asteria was pursued by Zeus but turned herself
Asteria
Ancient Greek goddess and mother of the gods
43. Pseudo-Oppian, Cynegetica 3.7. Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter, 441–443; Gantz, p. 43. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 9.132–200 ff.. Apollodorus, 3.5.1. Nonnus, Dionysiaca
Rhea_(mythology)
Greek Sea nymphs, daughters of Nereus
2.2 Virgil, Georgics 4.341; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 41.153 Hesiod, Theogony 349–361; Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 418–423 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26.355 Virgil, Georgics
Nereids
Greek god of the Meander river in Caria
Metamorphoses 9.450 Pausanias, 7.4.1 Nonnus, Dionysiaca, pp. 369–478 Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Alabanda "Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis, IX. MAEANDER"
Meander_(mythology)
Consort of Helios and mother of Phaethon from Greek mythology
Metamorphoses 4.192-270 Nonnus, 38.110-141, with a translation by William Henry Denham Rouse. Nonnus, 38.142-217 Nonnus, 17.280 Nonnus, 26.355 Hyginus, Fabulae
Clymene_(mother_of_Phaethon)
Greek god of the sky and king of the gods
fleeing to Sicily, Zeus launches Mount Etna upon him, finally ending him. Nonnus, who gives the longest and most detailed account, presents a narrative similar
Zeus
Set of mythological Greek characters
ISBN 978-0-19-814741-1. Apollodorus, 3.1.2–4 Apollodorus, 3.1.4 Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10, p. 123, l. 40 Nonnus, 13.223, 13.245 & 13.546 ff. Pausanias, 1.35.6 Pausanias
Asterius_(mythology)
Name in Greek mythology
19. Homer, Odyssey 17.495 Nonnus, 41.312 Valerius Flaccus, 2.136 ff. Zenodotus in scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.366 Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10, p
Eurynome
Goddess from Greek mythology, wife and sister of Zeus
199–200. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 31.186 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 15.91 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 17.280 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26.355 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.27 Nonnus, Dionysiaca
Hera
Thessalian river god
Thebaid 4.289; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.386 Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Atrax Pausanias, 9.34.6 Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Trikkē Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions
Peneus
Son of Hellen, eponym of the Dorians in Greek mythology
Recognitions 21 Euripides, Ion 1589–1592 Servius ad Virgil, Aeneid 2.27 Nonnus, 14.114 Apollodorus, 1.7.3 Kerenyi. The Heroes of the Greeks, p. 184 After
Dorus_(son_of_Hellen)
Greek mythology goddesses of the seasons and time
Murray. p. 256. Virgil, Georgics 1.145 Horace, Ode 7. b. iv Nonnus, Dionysiaca 41.263 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 12.15 Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual,
Horae
River gods in Greek mythology
Loeb Classical Library. London: William Heinemann. Hesiod, Theogony 334; Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface William Smith; William Wayte;
River_gods_(Greek_mythology)
West wind god in Greek mythology
Hyginus Preface; Apollodorus 1.2.3; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 6.28 Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.545 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 690 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 47.340 Alcaeus of Mytilene
Zephyrus
Son of Poseidon in Greek mythology
Nonnus makes Belus the father of five sons, namely Phineus, Phoenix, Agenor (identified as the father of Cadmus), Aegyptus, and Danaus, though Nonnus
Belus_(Egyptian)
Son of Helios in Greek mythology
King Endymion. Nonnus' late version of the story is one of the two extensive narratives to survive, the other being Ovid's. In Nonnus' account, found
Phaethon
Myths centered around physical transformation in Greek mythology
825 Forbes Irving 1990, p. 288. Pseudo-Apollodorus Epitome 3.15 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44.114 Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.64 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.143 This story
Metamorphoses in Greek mythology
Metamorphoses_in_Greek_mythology
Ancient Greek goddess
Apollodorus 1.4.5 Aratus, Phaenomena 638 Callimachus, Hymn III to Artemis 265; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.395 Hyginus, De astronomia 2.34.4 Homer, Iliad 5.121–124;
Artemis
Ancient Greek goddess of the night
note c to 31.176; Verhelst, p. 60; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 31.176 (pp. 434, 435). Kotwick, p. 84. Betegh, p. 150; Pseudo-Alexander of Aphrodisias (Michael of
Nyx
Pseudo-mythological figure
into the precious stone features in any myth, the late antiquity author Nonnus states that Dionysus was gifted an amethyst stone from his grandmother Rhea
Amethyste
Personification of the Earth in Greek mythology
birth to Erichthonius of Athens, whom Athena adopted as her own child. Nonnus describes a similar myth, in which Aphrodite fled from her lustful father
Gaia
Mythological boar
Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. 220 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic poetry C4th AD) Nonnus, Dionysiaca 25. 194 (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic poetry C5th AD) Nonnos, Dionysiaca
Erymanthian_boar
Mythological king of Crete
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library 3.1.2. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 13. 220ff. Hyginus, Poetical Astronomy 2. 34 Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Pholegandros Pseudo-Clement
Minos
Various figures in Greek mythology
Books. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-60506-325-6. Apollodorus, 1.2.2 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.99 & 17.196 Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 21.1 Apollodorus, The Library with
Astraeus_(mythology)
Deity in Hellenistic mythology
as a cycle, he may also be presented as an old man. In the Dionysiaca, Nonnus associates Aion with the Horae and says that he: changes the burden of old
Aion_(deity)
Name of figures in Greek mythology
Clarendon Press. Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.542 ff. Diodorus Siculus, 5.50.5 Nonnus, 48.548 Intelligence, Military (December 1785). "Concerning the Character
Coronis_(mythology)
River in Turkey
River or its gold-bearing sands : golden" Nonnus, 24.52 Archived 2021-08-22 at the Wayback Machine Nonnus, 23.99 Archived 2021-08-22 at the Wayback Machine
Pactolus
Queen of the Amazons in Greek mythology
Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. 240 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic poetry C4th AD) Nonnus, Dionysiaca 25. 148 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic poetry C5th AD) Nonnos
Hippolyta
Greek goddess of the dawn
pp 47-52 Kölligan 2007, pp. 107–108. Dickmann-Boedeker 1974, pp. 66-67. Nonnus: "Eos had just shaken off the wing of carefree sleep (Hypnos) and opened
Eos
Two characters from Greek mythology
the follower of Dionysus in the Indian War. Apollodorus, 3.12.3 Nonnus, 29.270 (Pseudo-)Apollodorus, The Library, with an English translation by Sir James
Calybe
Archaic king of Athens
made sacred by the presence of Cecrops is inherent in the reference in Nonnus' Dionysiaca to the Erechtheion lamp as "the lamp of Cecrops". Priests of
Erechtheus
Set of mythological Greek characters
Publishers. p. 270. ISBN 9780786471119. Nonnus, 48.264 ff. Homer, Odyssey 7.56-57 Pausanias, 1.43.4 Pseudo-Plutarch, Parallel Lives 27.312b Apollodorus
Periboea
Greek minor gods, original inhabitants of Rhodes
Stygian water and sulfur, which killed animals and plants (according to Nonnus, they did so as revenge for being driven out of Rhodes by the Heliadae)
Telchines
Jovian deity
ad Homer, p. 987 Scholium ad Homer, Iliad 14.295 Homer, Odyssey 7.56 ff. Nonnus, 14.22 Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.21 Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.28
Eurymedon_(mythology)
One of the Pleiades in Greek mythology
3. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.1ff. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.131–134 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.180–194 (Emathion "sole king"), 220–233 (Cadmus received). Nonnus, Dionysiaca
Electra_(Pleiad)
Figure in Greek mythology
Bibliotheca 2.1.4 and Scholia to Aeschylus, Suppliants 317), Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.296–303. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca. 2.4.3. Collard & Cropp (2008, pp
Phineus_(son_of_Belus)
ISBN 9780192804761. Nonnus, Dionysiaca Pseudo-Plutarch, On Music, 7. Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists, 2.5.5. Pausanias 1.30.1 Pseudo-Apollodorus, 3.1
Homoerotic themes in Greek and Roman mythology
Homoerotic_themes_in_Greek_and_Roman_mythology
Miletus John Diakrinomenos John of Ephesus John of Epiphania Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor Jordanes John Malalas Liberatus of Carthage
Nonnosus_(historian)
Multiple figures in Greek mythology
alternate name for the Titaness Phoebe.[citation needed] Thebe (disambiguation) Nonnus, 4.304, 5.86 & 41.270 Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 9.383 Tzetzes on Lycophron
Thebe_(mythology)
Hottest part of summer in the Northern Hemisphere
Diodorus of Sicily, Bibliotheca Historica, Bk. IV, §81. Pseudo-Hyginus, De astronomia, Bk. II, §4. Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca, Bk. XIII, ll. 253 ff. Hardie
Dog_days
Enchantress-goddess in Greek mythology
Antium, and Ardea. In the later 5th-century CE epic Dionysiaca, its author Nonnus mentions Phaunus, Circe's son by the sea god Poseidon. Three ancient plays
Circe
Mythical daughter of Hypseus
2021-01-10. Callimachus, Hymn 2 to Apollo 85 ff; Diodorus Siculus, 4.81.1; Nonnus, 29.180 Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.31 Diodorus Siculus, 4.69.3 Apollodorus
Themisto
Series of Greek and Latin texts with English translations
The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; /loʊb/, German: [løːp]) is a monographic series of books originally published by Heinemann and
Loeb_Classical_Library
Greek god of beauty and desire
Dialogues of the Gods Aphrodite and the Moon Cyrino 2010, p. 96. According to Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.1f. Servius on Virgil's Eclogues x.18; Orphic Hymn lv.10;
Adonis
Greek goddesses of grace and beauty
Keightley, p. 192; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 24.261–264. Dionysus as father: Nonnus, Dionysiaca 16.131–2, 33.4–11; Dionysus as father by Coronis: Nonnus, Dionysiaca
Charites
Ancient Greek mythological king
controlled Phlegyas to charge Lucifer. Pausanias, 9.36.1 Apollodorus, 3.5.5 Nonnus, 29.31 Strabo, 9. p. 442 Strabo, 9. p.442. Page numbers refer to those of
Phlegyas
Various figures in Greek mythology
Aristophanes, Frogs 1126, 1138 & 1145; Orphic Hymn 57 Nonnus, 31.144; Orphic Hymn 53.1; Suida, s.v. Zagreus "pseudo-Aristotle, De mundo, Aristotelis Opera, Volume
Chthonius
Name of several women in Greek mythology
Women 1116 Corinna, fr. 654 Campbell, pp. 26–35. Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1. Nonnus, 42.411 Eustathius on Homer, p. 278; Strabo, 10.1.3; Stephanus of Byzantium
Euboea_(mythology)
Name of several characters in Greek mythology
ff.; Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 854; Suda, s.v. Phorbanteion Nonnus, 14.94 ff. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ambrakia, Dexamenai Ptolemy Hephaestion
Phorbas
Figure from Greek mythology
Golden Ass 6.15; 6.24; Quintus Smyrnaeus – Fall of Troy 8.427; 14.324; Nonnus – Dionysiaca 8.93; 10.258; 10.308; 12.39; 14.430; 15.279; 17.76; 19.158;
Ganymede_(mythology)
Village in the East Macedonia and Thrace region of Greece
Greek Settlements in Thrace Until the Macedonian Conquest, page 113. BRILL. Nonnus, i. 12, xvii. 6, xix. 11 Homer, Odyssey, ix. 209; Pliny, xiv. 4. s. 6 Athenian
Maroneia
Greek mythological figure
(2nd century AD) Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.38.1 (2nd century AD) Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.211; 6.367 (c. 500 AD) Apollodorus, The Library with an English
Deucalion
Nymph in Greek mythology
Woodhouse 1910, p. 1029. Silver 2017, p. 106. St. John 1842, pp. 224-225. Nonnus 40.300–309 Julius Pollux 1.4 Liwak, Rüdiger (October 1, 2006). "Tyrus".
Tyros_(nymph)
Ancient Greek god
Antiquities of Greece, Volume 1 Homer, the Ilaid 1 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 27 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 24 Statius, Thebaid 7 Apollodorus, 1.6
Apollo
Creature in Greek mythology
Moralia 9.14.6 Ovid XIV, 88. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.892; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13.309; Tzetzes, Chiliades, 1.14, line 338 & 348 Apollodorus
Siren_(mythology)
Archaeological site in Cyprus
of Lapathus was credited to Phoenicians from Kition.[dubious – discuss] Nonnus claimed the name derived from an eponymous Lapathus, a follower of Dionysus
Lapathus_(Cyprus)
Mythical founder of the city of Paphos in Greek mythology
Canaan. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. pp. 136, 280–84. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13.451; Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.35.1 "Map 1: The
Cinyras
Literary genre
is demonstrable on Musaeus' Hero and Leander, the late antique epic by Nonnus titled Dionysiaca, Procopius,[citation needed] the Byzantine novel, and
Ancient_Greek_novel
Ancient Greek deity and herald of the gods
University of Texas Press. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-292-78298-3. Nonnus. Dionysiaca. pp. 8. 220 ff. Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 16 Pausanias, Description of Greece
Hermes
Symbol of the Roman god Mercury
Heracles, 220. Orphic Hymn 28, v. 4 Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fables (LXIV) and Nonnus, Dionysiaca, (XIV, 270). Aeschylus, The Phorkides, fr. 262 iv, v Radt. Pherecydes
Talaria
Christian bishop in the Byzantine Empire (died 498)
and metropolitan of Osrhoene from 471 until his death. Cyrus succeeded Nonnus as bishop in 471. He was opposed to the Antiochene theology of the school
Cyrus_II_of_Edessa
2.955ff Hyginus, Fabulae 14.5 Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre 940 ff. Valerius Flaccus, 5.114 Nonnus, 26.45 Nonnus, 30.108 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica
Phlogius_(mythology)
Greek nymph
Pausanias, 2.15.3. Pseudo-Plutarch, De Fluviis 18.13. Compare with Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.463 which calls Adrasteia "Argive", where Nonnus is probably drawing
Adrasteia
Ancient Greek mythical character
5.3–5 Pausanias, 6.19.11 Lucian, Praising a Fly 10 Conon, Narrations 14 Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10, p. 123, l. 41 Accession Number 24.97.13. Richard
Endymion_(mythology)
Founder of Samothracian rites
Euripides, Phoenissae 1129; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 219 Apollodorus, 3.12.1. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.124 Fowler 2013, p. 552; Gantz, p. 215; Hard, p. 297; Hellanicus
Iasion
Brother of Europa in Ancient Greek mythology
Rhodius, 3.1177-87f Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.287 ff. Tzetzes, Chiliades 7.159–160 Tzetzes, Chiliades 7.353 Antoninus Liberalis, 40 Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions
Phoenix_(son_of_Agenor)
Satyr musician in Greek mythology
Dipla:2001 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 10.233 Hyginus, Fabulae 165 Apollodorus, 1.4.2 Hyginus, Fabulae 273; Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.30.9 Pseudo-Plutarch
Marsyas
In Greek mythology, a pair of mischievous forest creatures
following classical authors: Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca Historia. 4.31.7. Nonnus. Westermann, A. (ed.). Mythographi Graeci. Appendix Narrationum, 39, p. 375
Cercopes
Greek mythological figure
320 = FGrHist 3 F 86 Pindar, Olympian Odes 10.67 Valerius Flaccus, 2.149 Nonnus, 29.263 Virgil, Aeneid 5.621 Homer, Iliad 11.489 Hyginus, Fabulae 90 Apollodorus
Doryclus
Major deity in the Phoenician and Punic pantheons
build for their Heracles, referring here to the Cilician god Sandon. In Nonnus' Dionysiaca (40.366–580) the Tyrian Heracles is very much a Sun-god. However
Melqart
In Greek mythology, a king of Salmydessus
Virgil's Aeneid 3.209 Apollonius of Rhodes, 2.236–7 Apollodorus, 1.9.21 Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre 953 ff. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 138 (Merkelbach
Phineus
Relations between ancient Greece and India
campaign against Bactria. The epic poem Dionysiaca by Nonnus recounts Dionysus' expedition to India. Nonnus also wrote about Colletes (Ancient Greek: 'Κολλήτης')
Ancient Greece–Ancient India relations
Ancient_Greece–Ancient_India_relations
Ancient Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses
9.36.4. RE, s.v. Chrysogeneia; Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, 3.1094. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13.328–30, with note h. Plato, Critias 113–114c. Smith, s.v
Poseidon
Body of myths originating in ancient Greece
period: Nonnus, Antoninus Liberalis, and Quintus Smyrnaeus. The Greek poets of the Hellenistic period: Apollonius of Rhodes, Callimachus, Pseudo-Eratosthenes
Greek_mythology
PSEUDO NONNUS
PSEUDO NONNUS
Surname or Lastname
Dutch and North German
Dutch and North German : patronymic from a Middle Dutch pet form of Theudilo, a short form of Germanic compound names formed with an unattested element, theudo- ‘people’, ‘tribe’.English (Wiltshire and Gloucestershire) : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English (Wiltshire and Gloucestershire)
English (Wiltshire and Gloucestershire) : unexplained.Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Diegel or Swiss Digel, from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with þeudo- ‘people’, ‘tribe’.
Surname or Lastname
Irish (Ulster)
Irish (Ulster) : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duibhne ‘descendant of Dubhne’, a personal name meaning ‘ill-going’, ‘disagreeable’. Compare Deeney. Peoples is a pseudo-translation based on the phonetic resemblance of the Gaelic name to Gaelic daoine ‘people’.English : patronymic from a pet form (in -el) of the Old French personal name Pepis, oblique case Pepin (see Pepin).
Female
Egyptian
, the mother of Psenio.
Male
French
Norman French form of Scandinavian Eutha, EUDO means "child." This name and its variants are sometimes confused with Odo, Otto, and Audo.Â
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : from a Germanic personal name composed of the unattested element þeudo- ‘people’, ‘race’ + bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’. The English surname represents a learned form, re-created from French Théobald; the common medieval form of the name was Tebald, Tibalt (Old French Teobaud, Tibaut).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone living by a lake or river, from Middle English by ‘by’, ‘beside’ + water ‘water’.Irish : pseudo-translation (due to confusion with sruth ‘stream’) of Gaelic Ó Srutháin ‘descendant of Sruithán’, a personal name from a diminutive of sruith ‘sage’, ‘elder’. Bywater is found as the English form of this Gaelic name in County Cork, while in Mayo the usual Anglicization is Ryan.
Male
Hebrew
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chammuw'el, CHAMUEL means "heat of God." Also, according to pseudo-Dionysius, this is the name of an archangel.Â
Surname or Lastname
English (Northamptonshire)
English (Northamptonshire) : from the Old French form of the Latin personal name Titus. Compare Tito.French : from the Germanic personal name Tito, derived from theudo ‘people’, ‘race’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English lamb, a nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm.English : from a short form of the personal name Lambert.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: ‘The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O’Loan itself.’Possibly also a translation of French agneau.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname, perhaps for a messenger, from Middle English gÅ(n) ‘to go’ (Old English gÄn) + lihtly ‘lightly’, ‘swiftly’ (Old English lÄ“oht(lÄ«c)).Scottish : altered form of a surname of uncertain origin, possibly an unidentified habitational name. The earliest known bearer is William Galithli, who witnessed a charter at the beginning of the 13th century. Henry Gellatly, an illegitimate son of William the Lion, of whom little or nothing is known, was the grandfather of Patric Galythly, one of the pretenders to the crown of Scotland in 1291.Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac an Ghallóglaigh ‘son of the galloglass’, Irish gallóglach. A galloglass was a mercenary retainer or auxiliary soldier (a compound of gall ‘foreigner’ (see Gall 1) + óglach ‘youth’, ‘warrior’). The name is also found pseudo-translated as English.
Male
French
Variant form of Norman French Eudo, EUDES means "child."Â
Male
English
Anglicized form of Hebrew Chammuw'el, HAMUEL means "heat of God." In the bible, this is the name of a man of Simeon. Also, according to pseudo-Dionysius, this is the name of an archangel.Â
Surname or Lastname
English and Irish
English and Irish : from the common Norman personal name, T(h)erry (Old French Thierri), composed of the unattested Germanic element þeudo- ‘people’, ‘race’ + rÄ«c ‘power’. Theodoric was the name of the Ostrogothic leader (c. 454–526) who invaded Italy in 488 and established his capital at Ravenna in 493. His name was often taken as a derivative of Greek TheodÅros (see Theodore). There was an Anglo-Norman family of this name in County Cork.Irish : Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Mac Toirdhealbhaigh (see Turley).Southern French : occupational name for a potter, from Occitan terrin ‘earthenware vase’ (a diminutive of terre ‘earth’, Latin terra).
Male
German
 German form of Old Norman French Eudo, UDO means "child." Compare with another form of Udo.
Male
French
Variant spelling of Norman French Eudo, EUDON means "child."Â
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An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.
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A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.
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of Scudo
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A pseudo-peripteral temple.
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Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column.
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Falsely romantic.
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False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).
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A pseudo-dipteral temple.
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A large European species of maple (Acer Pseudo-Platanus).
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The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S. Pseudo-china), found in America.
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A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, metameric with mesitylene and cumene, found in coal tar, and obtained as a colorless liquid.
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Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.
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One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.
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Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system.
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Exhibiting pseudo-symmetry.
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Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.
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Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
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The organ in which pseudova are produced; -- called also pseudovarium.