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  - 3792 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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History of Phoenicia
Book by George Rawlinson; Longmans, Green, 1889
Subjects: Phoenicia--History
...entrance--Phoenician ornamentation--Pillars and their capitals--Cornices and mouldings...Recent discoveries of Phoenician artistic remains--Phoenician...and busts--Animal forms--Bas-reliefs--Hercules and Geryon--Scenes on sarcophagi--Phoenician...
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journal articles on: Pillars of Hercules  - 42 results

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The Room of Maps at Caprarola, 1573-75
Journal article by Loren Partridge; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Art, Art history, Farnese, Alessandro, Italy, Maps, Mythology, Patronage, Renaissance period, Roman Catholic Church, Royalty
...center of each composition. The legs of Hercules killing the lion, and the upper torso and outstretched arms of Hercules killing the Hydra echo those of Neptune. Further, the figure of Hercules killing the Hydra relates closely...
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The Cold Reality of Heroism: the Second Grinnell Expedition
Journal article by Mark Metzler Sawin Phd.; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 98, 2008
...by August 6. As they passed these enormous, eighthundred-foot cliffs, Elisha noted poetically that these "Arctic pillars of Hercules... look down on us as if they challenged our right to pass," and tiiat even the usually stoic sailors were impressed...
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Gongora in Arcadia: Sannazaro and the Pastoral Mode of the Soledades
Journal article by Rodrigo Cacho Casal; The Romanic Review, Vol. 98, 2007
Subjects: Arcadia (Sannazaro, Jacopo) (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Gongora y Argote, Luis de--Criticism and interpretation, Gongora y Argote, Luis de--Works, Pastoral poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Sannazaro, Jacopo--Criticism and interpretation, Sannazaro, Jacopo--Works, Soledades (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation
...nobility. These qualities constitute two of the basic pillars of which his poem is made. From its very beginning, the...de Homero y Statio en sus iuegos funerales, ni a la de Hercules y Anteo escrita por Lucano, ni a la de los Pastores por...
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Interventions: the Melancholy Art/response: Epithalamium/response: the Dark Side of Art History/response: the Far in the Near/response: Reasons to Be Cheerful/interventions: the Author Replies
Journal article by Michael Ann Holly, Stephen Melville, Hayden White, Karen Lang, Stephen Bann; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007
Subjects: Art history, Linguistics, Mysteries, Nonfiction, Writing
...London: Pimlico, 1992), 80. 35. Agamben, Stanzas, 14 n. 3, says, "Bringing up to date the list of melancholies listed by Aristotle in his Problem 30 Hercules, Bellerophon, Heraclitus, Democritus, Maracus would risk excessive length. After its first...
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The Right to Mobility in Adventure Fiction
Journal article by Margaret Cohen; Novel, Vol. 42, 2009
Subjects: Citizenship, Freedom of movement, Prospecti
...the limits of the human to reaffirm its specificity in relation to the divine? Odysseus pulled back before the pillars of Hercules (the straits of Gibraltar) and did not venture out into the Atlantic to access the oceans of the globe. And the...
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magazine articles on: Pillars of Hercules  - 21 results

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Did Homer Base the Remarkable Voyages of Odysseus on Fact?
Magazine article by Jim Bloom; Sea Classics, Vol. 41, July 2008
...are the "close-to-home" school and the "beyond-the-Pillars-of-Hercules" school. The most-daring early scholars held that...and 8th centuries BC ventured westward beyond the Pillars of Hercules (the Straits of Gibraltar). Certainly, the reticent...
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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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The 'Unconquered' & Muslim Aspirations; (from Dr. Cesar A. Majul's Muslims in the Philippines (UP, 1977), the Following Excerpts on the History of the Muslim South Up to the End of Spanish Rule Is Reproduced Briefly in Substance.)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 12, 2007
Subjects: Christian-Muslim relations, Christianity and other religions--Islam, Muslims
...Islam, a segment of the Philippine population became a part of a larger religious community extending from the Pillars of Hercules to the borders of China. They also acquired a high sense of religious community, new laws, a more developed political...
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Residence of a Victorian Gentleman
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), October 25, 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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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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ATLAN TIS DISCOVERED? for Centuries Mankind Has Searched for the Fabled Lost Continent of Atlantis. One Man Who's Spent His Life Looking Explains Why He's Convinced He Has Finally Found It
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 21, 2004
...said that it was beyond the Pillars of Hercules - generally assumed to mean...that Atlantis lay beyond the Pillars of Hercules? To that, Galanapoulos replies...in southern Greece, as the Pillars of Hercules, and that Santorini is, indeed...
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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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