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1.
Neptune and the Netherlands: State, Economy, and War at Sea in the Renaissance
Contributors:
Publisher:
Brill 2004
Subjects:
Netherlands--History, Naval
Netherlands--History--House Of Habsburg, 1477-1556
Admiralty--Netherlands--History
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...PlatesPlate 1. (cover plate) Neptune and Amphitrite by Jan Gossaert...mythological rendering of the sea god Neptune(with his trident) and the...It has been suggested that Neptune in thepainting is a personification...1482to 1493 on behalf of his son Philip the Fair, and from 1506...
2.
Omaha Beach: A Flawed Victory
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press 2001
Subjects:
Operation Neptune
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy
Normandy (France)--History, Military--20th Century
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...No book-length biography of Hewitt exists.Henry Kent Hewitt was born on 11 February 1887 in Hackensack, NewJersey, the son of Robert Anderson and Mary Kent Hewitt. He enteredthe U.S. Naval Academy on 29 June 1903 and graduated on 12 September1906...
3.
Who's Who in Opera: A Guide to Opera Characters
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1999
Subjects:
Operas--Characters--Dictionaries
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...revealsher love for his son. Neptune, furious atIdomeneo...00ADise in order to save his son, sends amonster in a storm...Thisturns out to be his own son, Idamante,and he is...send himaway to save him. Neptune is angry atthis breaking...
4.
In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of the West Indies Press 1999
Subjects:
Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786--Diaries
Plantation Life--Jamaica--History--Sources
Slavery--Jamaica--History--Sources
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...illnesses, pregnancies, the death of Neptune; and indi­cations of special...time to time, Abba's remaining son, Neptune, had beenunwell, but there had...About 4 this morning, Abba's Neptune died, complained ofpains all over...
5.
The Heroine in Western Literature: The Archetype and Her Reemergence in Modern Prose
Contributors:
Publisher:
McFarland 1991
Subjects:
Heroines In Literature
Women In Literature
Archetype (Psychology) In Literature
Myth In Literature
Goddesses In Literature
Literature--History And Criticism
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...implacableEnmity of the gods that is wrecking Troyand hurling her empire down to utter ruin.2She goes on to "peel off all the glaucous mist that dulls the vision of mor­tals" and reveals to her son Neptune "prodding the walls down with his
6.
An Introduction to Virgil's 'Aeneid'
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1969
Subjects:
Rome (Italy)--in Literature
Virgil. Aeneis
Aeneas (Legendary Character) in Literature
Epic Poetry, Latin--History and Criticism
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...Jupiteris motivated by anything but private interests and affections. ThusVenus is concerned for Aeneas because he is her son; Neptune forhis rights as monarch of the sea; Vulcan for the satisfaction of hisamorous desires; Cybele for the pine-trees...
7.
New Tales of Old Rome
Contributors:
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Company 1901
Subjects:
Rome (Italy)--Antiquities
Rome (Italy)--Description And Travel
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...under the features of the ancient Cybele,who, crowned with towers and seated on the shore, com­manded her son Neptune to pour forth his waves at herfeet."Christianity, to which we are indebted for the only speciesof architecture conformable...
8.
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; Legends of Charlemagne
Contributors:
Publisher:
Grosset & Dunlap 1913 (Revised edition)
Subjects:
Folklore
Chivalry
Mythology
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...assigned to him.TRITON AND PROTEUSTriton was the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, andthe poets make him his father's trumpeter. Proteuswas also a son of Neptune. He, like Nereus, is styleda sea-elder for his...
9.
Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation
Contributors:
Publisher:
Hackett 2004
Subjects:
Classical Literature--Translations Into English
Mythology, Classical--Literary Collections
Mythology, Classical
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...that Hippothous was the son of Neptune,from whom he too was...hand in marriage, but Neptune kidnapped her andcarried...throw them off thetrail, Neptune changed Theophane into...and the wife of Cephalus son of Deion. Heldfast by...
10.
The Tragedies of Seneca
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press 1907
Subjects:
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, CA. 4 BC-65 AD Tragedies. English
Latin Drama (Tragedy)--Translations into English
Mythology, Classical--Drama
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...780. See HYLAS.NAUPLIUS, a son of Neptune and kingof Euboea; to avenge the death ofhis son, Palamedes, he lured theGreek...was Juno herself,H. Oet. 492.NEPTUNE, son of Saturn, brother ofJupiter and...
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