PILLARS OF HERCULES

ancient mythological name for promontories flanking the east entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. They are usually identified with Gibraltar in Europe and with Mt. Acha at Ceuta in Africa. The Jebel Musa (W of Ceuta) is also considered one of the pillars. They are also referred to as the Gates of Hercules.

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books on: Pillars of Hercules  - 3780 results

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Seven Pillars of Popular Culture
Book by Marshall W. Fishwick; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: Popular Culture--United States--History--20th Century
SEVEN PILLARS OF POPULAR CULTURE Matthew Kahle, who fought...George" is the very embodiment of Seven Pillars of Popular Culture . Courtesy of Washington and Lee University. Seven Pillars of Popular Culture MARSHALL W. FISHWICK...
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A History of Ancient Geography
Book by H. F. Tozer; Biblo and Tannen, 1971
Subjects: Geography, Ancient--History
...territory; and at last to the Pillars of Hercules at Commerce and Settlements...energetic traders had passed the Pillars of Hercules, and reached the ocean. There...of lofty rocks, called the Pillars of Hercules, which marked the limit of...
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The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought
Book by Stephen A. McKnight; University of Missouri Press, 2006
Subjects: Bacon, Francis--1561-1626, Bacon, Francis--1561-1626--Religion
...horizon as a portrayal of the Pillars of Hercules.5 In classical mythol- ogy the Pillars of Hercules represent the boundaries of...significance of sailing beyond the Pillars of Hercules to the accounts of the ancient...
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Central Italy and Rome, Handbook for Travellers
Book by Karl Baedeker; K. Baedeker, 1909
...DISTANCES. Italy, like most of the other European states, has a dopted...is equal to 0,61138, or nearly 5/8ths, of an English mile 8 kil. = 5 M. . The Italian railway-time is that of Central Europe. In official deal ings...
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White Wall of Spain: The Mysteries of Andalusian Culture
Book by Allen Josephs; University of West Florida Press, 1990
Subjects: Andalusia (Spain)--Civilization
...explored the regions beyond the Pillars of Hercules shortly after the Trojan War...terms, that may lie beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Whatever the veracity of those...Ocean near Gadira, outside the Pillars of Hercules" 4.8 . But of even greater...
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journal articles on: Pillars of Hercules  - 30 results

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Mediterranean Travel Writing: From Etruscan Places to under the Tuscan Sun
Journal article by Jeffrey J. Folks; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 40, 2004
Subjects: Etruscan Places (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Lawrence, D.H.--Criticism and interpretation, Mayes, Francis--Criticism and interpretation, Travel in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Travel literature--Criticism and interpretation, Under The Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...The title of his book, The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean...rhetorical purposes. In The Pillars of Hercules, what seems most satisfying...Houghton, 1979. --. The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean...
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Apologizing for Pleasure in Sidney's 'Apology for Poetry': The Nurse of Abuse Meets the Tudor Grammar School
Journal article by Mary Ellen Lamb; Criticism, Vol. 36, 1994
Subjects: Masculinity--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Poetry--Social aspects, Sidney, Philip--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...they will be to hear the tales of Hercules, Achilles, Cyrus, Aeneas" (113...taught in schools?(28) Were tales of Hercules prominent among the tales "which...substitution of a male narrator of tales of Hercules for the more usual narrators of...
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Killing a Chinese Mandarin
Journal article by Carlo Ginzburg; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1994
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...or are already dead; nor those who live near the Pillars of Hercules; nor those who, in his own opinion or in that of...emotions of other human beings. The allusion to the Pillars of Hercules conveys similar implications: the lands and seas...
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Squinting Back at Strabo*
Journal article by William A. Koelsch; The Geographical Review, Vol. 94, 2004
Subjects: Geographers--History, Geographers--Research, Geographical research--History, Geographical research--Methods, Strabo--Methods, Strabo--Research
...R. 1995. Anatolica: Studies in Strabo. Edited by A. R. Birley. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Theroux, P. 1995. The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean. New York: G. P. Putnams Sons. Thomson, J. O. 1948 1965. History of Ancient...
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Exploring the "Exploration Report" and Its Image of the Overseas World: Spanish, French, and English Variants of a Common Form Type in Early American Literature
Journal article by Hans Galinsky; Early American Literature, Vol. 12, 1977
Subjects: American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783
...conjured up the same heroes when indulging in mythological and historical reveries in Tangier, just across from the Pillars of Hercules. 17 The continuity between the exploration report of a Spaniard gone west and the travel book of an American...
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magazine articles on: Pillars of Hercules  - 17 results

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Interfacing Smual Hartlib
Magazine article by Mark Greengrass; History Today, Vol. 43, December 1993
Subjects: Bibliographers--Biography, Hartlib, Samuel--Biography, Information science--History
...Francis Bacons Great Instauration, published in Latin in 1620. It depicts the ship of learning sailing through the pillars of Hercules to the undiscovered but fructiferous lands of New Atlantis. Beneath it lies inscribed the famous biblical passage...
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Andean Atlantis
Magazine article by Debbie K. Becht; Americas (English Edition), December 1998
Subjects: Atlantis--Research, Bolivia--History
...an island larger than Libya and Asia combined, located in the Western Ocean of the known world, across from the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar). It was a prosperous, utopian commonwealth that in one day and night sunk into the sea, disappearing...
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The French Referendum
Magazine article by Allan Ramsay; Contemporary Review, Vol. 287, July 2005
Subjects: European Union--Membership, France--Membership, France--Political aspects, Referendum--Forecasts and trends, Referendums--Forecasts and trends
...its innocence and an example of early propaganda at work. The bull swam with her out to sea, some say across the Pillars of Hercules to the shore of Southern Spain, others to Crete, where later she gave birth to Minos and Rhadamanthus, ruler of...
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The Road to Santiago: Ted Lamb Follows a Centuries-Old Path through the Pyrenees on a Pilgrimage to Santiago De Compostela in Northwestern Spain
Magazine article by Ted Lamb; Geographical, Vol. 77, January 2005
Subjects: Spain--Description and travel
...his body in a marble boat and pushed it out into the sea. The boat floated along the Mediterranean, through the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar) and into the Atlantic, turning north and making landfall on the coast of what is now Galicia...
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It's Not Small, Kitschy or Quaint, and the Americans Will Love It. but Will Shakespeare's Globe Signal the Rejuvenation of the Bard?
Magazine article by Michael Ratcliffe; New Statesman, Vol. 125, August 16, 1996
Subjects: Globe Theatre--Remodeling, restoration, etc., London, England--Buildings, facilities, etc., Shakespeare, William--Dramatic production
...aforesaid and ever interesting Hall, who workshopped the Globe last year and said, in the nicest possible way, that the Pillars of Hercules were in the wrong place (they moved them) and that the three entrances at the back of the stage should be further...
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newspaper articles on: Pillars of Hercules  - 23 results

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Where They Lived, Loved and Fought; FLAWED GENIUS: A Life-Size Bronze of Dylan Thomas in His Home Town, Swansea POETRY IN EMOTION:Dylan and Caitlin Had a Tempestuous Marriage
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 11, 2007
Subjects: Bronze, Home blood glucose tests, Marriage, Poetry, Poets
...Wheatsheaf in RathbonePlace, where they first met. They were also regulars at the French House, TheHighlander and Pillars of Hercules in Soho, The George and The Stags Head inPortland Place, and the Fitzroy in Fitzrovia. Moving West, the couple...
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Step into the Hall of Fame; and It Could Be Yours. for Pounds 1.25m
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), October 9, 2007
...iron gates attached to huge carved stone pillars. Alan Titchmarsh would have a field day...it must be like to live in this corner of Potto - one of Teessides loveliest villages...when the area was described as an "infant Hercules" as the iron and shipbuilding trades took...
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Weekender: Travel: Let the Games Begin; KATHERINE DERBYSHIRE LAPS UP THE MAGIC OF ANCIENT OLYMPIA
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 14, 2004
...painstakingly uncovered and partially restored. The pillars, made up of huge stone discs stacked on top of one another, lie...basil grow at your feet in the land where Zeuss son Hercules is said to have performed his 12 labours. When your...
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Armchair Traveller
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 29, 1996
Armchair Traveller. THE PILLARS OF HERCULES by Paul Theroux (Penguin, pounds sterling6.99...Gibraltar to Tangier-or, as he put it, from one Pillar of Hercules to the other. To see the Spanish and French coastlines...
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The Treasure of Morocco & Southern Spain
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), December 29, 2007
...countries, but two different continents, divided by the Pillars of Hercules. This holiday has a real mixture of flavours and...Gibraltar which separates the European and African Pillars of Hercules. You will spend four nights in Morocco, with time...
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encyclopedia articles on: Pillars of Hercules  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Pillars of Hercules
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PILLARS OF HERCULES ancient mythological name for promontories...of Ceuta) is also considered one of the pillars. They are also referred to as the Gates of Hercules. ____________________ Copyright 2009...
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Gibraltar, Strait Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...promontories at the eastern entrance are the classical Pillars of Hercules . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Calpe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...CALPE kal pe, ancient name, possibly Phoenician in origin, of Gibraltar . It is one of the Pillars of Hercules , at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...
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Gibraltar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Spain. Most of the peninsula is occupied by the Rock of Gibraltar (Lat. Calpe ), one of the Pillars of Hercules , which guards the northeastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar, linking the Mediterranean with the Atlantic. The town of Gibraltar lies...
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Ceuta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...administered as an integral part of Cadiz prov., Spain. It is located on a peninsula whose promontory forms one of the Pillars of Hercules . The city, which has a European appearance, is a free port, with a large harbor and ample wharves; it is also...


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