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| x Terpsichore |
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Terpsichore |
In Greek mythology, Terpsichore (pronounced /tərpˈsɪkəri/) (Τερψιχόρη) "delight of dancing" was one of the nine Muses, ruling over dance and the dramatic chorus. She lends her name to the word "terpsichorean" which means "of or relating to dance"....
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| x Pygmalion |
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Pygmalion or The Cyprus Statue |
Pygmalion is a legendary figure of Cyprus. Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, he is most familiar from Ovid's Metamorphoses, X, in which Pygmalion is a sculptor who falls in love with a statue he has made....
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| x Apollo |
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Apollon musagète |
In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (in Greek, Ἀπόλλων—Apóllōn or Ἀπέλλων—Apellōn), is one of the most important and diverse of the Olympian deities. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of...
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| x Petrushka | Petrushka |
Petrushka (Russian: Петрушка) is a stock character of Russian folk puppetry (rayok) known at least since 17th century. Petrushkas were used as marionettes, as well as hand puppets. Traditionally he was a kind of a jester distinguished by red dress,...
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| x Pulcinella |
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Pulcinella |
Pulcinella, often called Punch or Punchinello in English, Polichinelle in French, is a classical character that originated in the Commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry.
His main characteristic,...
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| x Eurydice |
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Orpheus |
Eurydice (Εὐρυδίκη, Eurydíkē) (yur-ID-ih-see) in Greek mythology, was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo (the god of light). She was the wife of Orpheus. Orpheus loved her dearly; on their wedding day, Orpheus played songs filled with...
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| x Orpheus |
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Orpheus |
Orpheus (Greek: Ὀρφεύς; in English pronounced /ˈɔrfiəs/ or /ˈɔrfjuːs/) is an important figure from Greek mythology, the inspiration for subsequent Orphic cults, much of the literature, poetry and drama of ancient Greece and Rome and, due to his...
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| x Persephone |
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Perséphone |
In Greek mythology, Persephone (pronounced /pərˈsɛfəniː/; Kore or Cora) was the embodiment of the Earth's fertility at the same time that she was the Queen of the Underworld, the korē (or young maiden), and the parthenogenic daughter of Demeter and,...
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| x Scheherazade |
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Scheherazade |
Scheherazade (pronounced /ʃəˌhɛrəˈzɑːd(ə)/), sometimes Scheherazadea, Persian transliteration Shahrazad or Shahrzād (Persian: شهرزاد Šahrzād, Arabic Šahrāzād), is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights.
The...
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| x Spartacus |
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Spartacus |
Spartacus (c. 109 BC-71 BC), according to Roman historians, was a slave and a gladiator who became a leader (or possibly one of several leaders) in the major slave uprising against the Roman Republic known as the Third Servile War. Little is known...
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| x Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo |
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Camargo |
Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo (15 April 1710, Brussels – 1770) sometimes known simply as La Camargo, was a French/Belgian dancer.
Her father, Ferdinand Joseph de Cupis, earned a scanty living as violinist and dancing-master, and from childhood she...
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| x Salvatore Rosa |
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Catarina or La Fille du Bandit |
Salvator Rosa (1615 - March 15, 1673) was an Italian Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, active in Naples, Rome and Florence. As a painter, he is best known as an "unorthodox and extravagant" and a "perpetual rebel" proto-Romantic.
He was born in...
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| x Circe |
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Ballet Comique de la Reine |
In Greek mythology, Circe (pronounced /ˈsɜrsiː/; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē "falcon") is a minor goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress) living on the island of Aeaea.
Circe's father was Helios (or Helius), the god of the sun...
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| x Thetis |
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The Adventures of Peleus or Thetis and Peleus |
Silver-footed Thetis (ancient Greek Θέτις), disposer or "placer" (the one who places), is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who...
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| x Snegurochka |
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The Daughter of the Snows |
Snegurochka (Russian: Снегурочка), or The Snow Maiden, is a character in Russian fairy tales.
In one story, she is the daughter of Spring and Frost, who yearns for the companionship of mortal humans. She grows to like a shepherd named Lel, but her...
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| x Cinderella |
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Aschenbrödel |
Cinderella (French: Cendrillon) is a well-known classic folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate...
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| x Mowgli |
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Mowgli |
Mowgli (pronounced /ˈmaʊɡli/) is a fictional character who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his fantasies...
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