SAMOTHRACE

sămˈōthrāsˌ or Samothrákisämōthräˈkē, island (1991 pop. 3,083), c.71 sq mi (184 sq km), NE Greece, in the Aegean Sea. The main town is Samothrace, or Samothráki, located on the northwest shore. The island is largely mountainous, rising to c.5,575 ft (1,700 m) on Mt. Fengari. In ancient times Samothrace was an important center of worship. There are ruins of a religious sanctuary, some of which date to the 6th cent. b.c. The famous statue of the winged Nike (or Victory) of Samothrace, built c.200 b.c. to adorn a ship and later transferred to the island, was discovered on Samothrace in 1863 and is now in the Louvre in Paris. The island was ceded to Greece by the Ottoman Empire in 1913.

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books on: Samothrace  - 692 results

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Skopas of Paros
Book by Andrew F. Stewart; Noyes Press, 1977
Subjects: Marble Sculpture, Ancient--Greece--Tegea (Extinct City), Marble Sculpture, Greek--Greece--Tegea (Extinct City), Scopas--Fl. 4th Cent. B.C, Tegea (Extinct City)--History, Temple Of Athena Alea (Tegea)
...between the Megarian figures. 68. Romans at Samothrace: P. M. Fraser, Samothrace ii .1 The Inscriptions on Stone , 15-17...Bulle, op. cit . note 48 , 141; N. Lewis, Samothrace i The Ancient Literary Sources , 107 no. 229g...
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A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey
Book by Clyde E. Fant, Mitchell G. Reddish; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Bible--Antiquities--Guidebooks, Greece--Antiquities--Guidebooks, Turkey--Antiquities--Guidebooks
...Philip I I and his successors. It was at Samothrace that Philip met his wife, Olymplas...attended its mysteries. Over the centuries Samothrace was largely independent, due to its...the 4th century. By the 7th century Samothrace was a poor and scarcely populated island...
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Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods
Book by Jas Elsner, Ian Rutherford; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Christian Pilgrims And Pilgrimages--History, Pilgrims And Pilgrimages--Greece--History, Pilgrims And Pilgrimages--Rome--History
...instrumental in tying a number of places to Samothrace in to a network of theoric relations...climate of the Hellenistic period, Samothrace had become the dancing floor for a worshipping...itself through a shared relation to Samothrace expressed in interacting myth and ritual...
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Greek Sanctuaries: New Approaches
Book by Nanno Marinatos, Robin Hägg; Routledge, 1995
Subjects: Greece--Religion, Shrines--Greece, Temples--Greece
...the mystery cult of the Kabeiroi at Samothrace, probably based on pre-Greek, local...by American scholars. K. Lehmann, Samothrace, a Guide to the Excavations and the...Bouzek and I. Ondrejova and R. Hosek, Samothrace 1923, 1927, 1978 (P rague 1985...
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Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults
Book by Michael B. Cosmopoulos; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Greece--Religion, Mysteries, Religious--Greece, Mysteries, Religious--Turkey, Turkey--Religion
Fraser, P.M., 1960: Samothrace, Excavations Conducted by the Institute...124-130. Lehmann, K., 1953: Samothrace: Sixth preliminary report, Hesperia...1-24. Lehmann, K., 1998: Samothrace: A Guide to the Excavations and...
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journal articles on: Samothrace  - 25 results

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Greek Myths, Christian Mysteries, and the Tautegorical Symbol
Journal article by Nicholas Halmi; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 36, 2005
Subjects: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--Criticism and interpretation, English romanticism, 1798-1832--Criticism and interpretation, English romanticism, 1798-1832--Religious aspects, Greek mythology--Influence, Prometheus Bound (Play)--Criticism and interpretation
...of Schelling, whose Uber die Gottheiten der Samothrace (On the Deities of Samothrace, 1815) sought to demonstrate (largely by...mere paraphrase of Uber die Gottheiten von Samothrace, as Rene Wellek too hastily asserted (A History...
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The Classical Heritage in Neon Lights: Las Vegas, Nevada
Journal article by Nancy B. Reed; Journal of American and Comparative Cultures, Vol. 24, 2001
Subjects: Cities, History, Las Vegas Nevada, Popular culture
...forgotten garden. The statue of Nike of Samothrace, apparently beckoning from the sidewalk...in 1863 on the north Aegean island of Samothrace, the statue was transferred directly...like it originally had on the island of Samothrace in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods...
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Phyllis Pray Bober
Journal article by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 148, 2004
Subjects: Bober, Phyllis Pray, Personal profiles, Scholars
...vernacular art. He was also the excavator of Samothrace, whom she was to accompany to the Greek...discoveries. Further field activity at Samothrace was prevented by marriage and motherhood...also contributed the introduction to Samothrace, vol. 7. The Rotunda of Arsinoe...
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Revisiting the Deconstruction of Narratology: Master Tropes of Narrative Embedding and Symmetry
Journal article by James J. Paxson; Style, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Literary criticism, Novels, Rhetoric
...According to H. Ward Tonsfeldt, the early critic Aristarchus of Samothrace recognized this mnemonic feature in the Odyssey two millennia...was a feature of Homers poetry well noted by Aristarchus of Samothrace. Hermogenes of Tarsus, the most eminent rhetorician of the...
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Tragic Life-journeys and Real-life Journeys: the Place Where Three Ways Meet.*
Journal article by Oliver Taplin; Antichthon, Vol. 44, 2010
Subjects: Roads & highways, Weddings
...mostly to festivals that were annual, or at other regular intervals. Long journeys would converge on, for example, Delos, Samothrace, Ephesos, Thermopylai, Epidauros, Dodona, Eleusis and so on. Above all there were, of course, those two greatest of...
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magazine articles on: Samothrace  - 18 results

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Manifesto Destiny: Maria Gough on Centenary Futurism Exhibitions
Magazine article by Maria Gough; Artforum International, Vol. 48, October 2009
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Forecasts and trends, Art--Exhibitions, Art--Forecasts and trends, Futurism (Art)--Forecasts and trends
...having to do with the acceleration of our experiential reality: "A racing car ... is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace," he shouted at his unsuspecting readers. It was not only the heretical content of this attack launched from Italy that...
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'Internet at the Museum'
Magazine article by Amy S. Blaine; Searcher, Vol. 17, November 2009
Subjects: Art galleries & museums, Historic artifacts, Internet, Museum exhibits, United States
...A Closer Look examines particular works, such as "La Gioconda" (aka the "Mona Lisa") or the "Winged Victory of Samothrace," in detail. Dont forget to activate the absolutely wonderful but easily overlooked childrens interface for a guided tour...
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Isadora Lives: Dancers Continue the Legacy
Magazine article by Katherine Jaeger; World and I, Vol. 19, February 2004
Subjects: Dance--History, Dance--Performances, Dancing--History, Dancing--Performances, Duncan, Isadora--Biography, Duncan, Isadora--Influence
...imbibed with her eyes poured out through her limbs onto the stage. She was a living Rodin masterwork; she was the Nike of Samothrace released from her pedestal. Through Duncans vision of movement as a language of self-expression, the full range of images...
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Movement in Art
Magazine article by Colleen Carroll; Arts & Activities, Vol. 150, September 2011
Subjects: Balla, Giacomo--Criticism and interpretation, Painting, Painting (Art)
...explosive breath ... a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace." ("Futurist Manifesto," Item #4.) Balla signed the Manifesto in 1910, and his studio became the meeting place for...
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The NS Crossword by Otterden
Magazine article; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 139, November 29, 2010
Subjects: Crossword puzzles
...Treacle 29) Riposte Down 1) Devonport 2) Clipper 3) Pretences 4) Diet 5) Departures 6) Arrow 7) Outside 8) Nests 13) Samothrace 16) Eavesdrop 17) To a degree 19) Lynette 21) Lean-tos 22) Stint 23) Auric 25) Deer This weeks solutions will be...
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newspaper articles on: Samothrace  - 13 results

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PARIS ...at a Sprint, a Dash and a High Jump; Frank 'Frantic' Barrett Discovers Just How Quickly You Can Tour the Major Attractions (Starting with the Louvre in Eight Minutes); Travel; A Bad Start.On the Ticket Desk Is Paris's Very Own Private Godfrey
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 18, 2009
...things worth seeing: the Venus De Milo, the Winged Victory Of Samothrace and, of course, the Mona Lisa. Im not entirely sure how...entrance and, below, Frank alongside the Winged Victory Of Samothrace before moving on to the Eiffel Tower and finally finishing...
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`Idea' Photos Need Some Rethinking
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, August 10, 1997
...She Wasnt Always a Statue" (1997), in which several standing male plaster casts seem to ogle the "Winged Victory of Samothrace." In "Feet First," she turns a heroic Greek god into an awkward boor by laying him sideways, his decidedly unheroic...
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FUTURISM IMPERFECT; It Was a Revolutionary Movement That Boasted of Creating a New Beauty -- but This Exhibition Omits Many of Its Big Moments
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 18, 2009
...fire-spitting serpents ... a roaring racing car running like a machine-gun is more beautiful than the Winged Victory of Samothrace. We want to sing of the man who holds the wheel ..." Only a man obsessed with a new toy could write such nonsense, and...
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Beyond Mona Lisa's Smile
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 3, 2009
...Bartolini rsquo;s Nymph with a Scorpion, whose spot overlooks the glass pyramid. Even the Goddess Nike (Winged Victory of Samothrace) has room to fly around. And with the kiss of the sun rsquo;s rays from a window directly above lending its pure white...
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Lladro Is Reigning in Spain; under the Hammer
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 20, 2009
...simply signed the base of the porcelain figurine before firing. Later the company started using a Greek symbol of a winged samothrace and later changed again to the current bellflower. In 1960 the word "Spain" began to appear under the bellflower. By becoming...
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encyclopedia articles on: Samothrace  - 10 results

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Samothrace
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAMOTHRACE sam othras or Samothraki samothra ke...in the Aegean Sea. The main town is Samothrace, or Samothraki, located on the northwest...on Mt. Fengari. In ancient times Samothrace was an important center of worship...
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Aristarchus of Samothrace
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOTHRACE ar istar k s, sam thras, c.217 c.145 b.c., Greek scholar, successor to his teacher, Aristophanes of Byzantium, as...
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Victory of Samothrace
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VICTORY OF SAMOTHRACE see Nike . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Greece
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and the Cyclades , the Northern Sporades , the Dodecanese (including Rhodes , Evvoia , Lesbos , Khios , Samos , Limnos , Samothrace , and Thasos , in the Aegean. Greece has few rivers, none of them navigable. The Greek people are only partly descended...
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Aristophanes of Byzantium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...He was librarian at Alexandria, edited various texts, and reputedly invented the Greek diacritical marks. Aristarchus of Samothrace was his pupil. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...
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