delos in English

noun
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a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea, regarded as the center of the Cyclades. Although it is now virtually uninhabited, it was considered to be sacred to Apollo in classical times and, according to legend, was the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.

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1. Delos owns the hosts'minds, the storylines, decades of work.

2. The Cyclades fulfil their collective name (kyklos means circle) by encircling the sacred island of Delos. The mythical birthplace of twins Apollo and Artemis, splendid Ancient Delos was a shrine turned sacred treasury and commercial centre

3. Also shown are Leto and probably Ortygia, the personification of the island of Delos.

4. Apollo was also famous for being an oracular god, and had two cults in Delphi and Delos

5. The decision by the Athenians in 454 BC to move the League treasury from the Panhellenic sanctuary at Delos to the Athenian acropolis points in the same direction.

6. How to Handle Bibliolaters (1989) by Delos McKown "Over the years I have been confronted by numerous Bibliolaters: people who take the Bible to be inerrant and, thus, put it beyond intelligent criticism

7. Mithridates V, was a great benefactor to the Hellenic culture which shows on surviving coinage and honorific inscriptions stating his donations in Athens and Delos and held the Greek God Apollo in great veneration.

8. One use to which Polycrates put his powerful navy was to control the island of Delos, one of the most important religious centers in Greece, control of which would bolster Polycrates' claim to be the leader of the Ionian Greeks.

9. The name “Cyclades” refers to the islands forming a circle (the name in English means: “circular islands”) around the sacred island of Delos. According to the Greek mythology, Poseidon, God of the sea, furious at the Cyclades nymphs turned them into islands.

10. Verily the girls of Delos, when the sweet-sounding marriage hymn Affrights the maiden's quarters, bring offerings of the maiden hair to the maidens, while the boys offer to the young men the first harvest of the down upon their cheeks." Pausanias, Description of Greece …

11. Embrelle and her Hashani then met with Korlosh of Delos, having unravelled yet another piece of the puzzle: “All aground, the master of a ship, little use to me, the Bardlike.” Unconvinced and unwilling to waste time, Korlosh’s demand was simple: a signature in exchange for the spilling of blood.