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actress
Venida Evans
has appeared as a "
muse
" in a series of
IKEA
television commercials
which have been described as "
surreal
" and "creepy"?
Polish
Countess
Delfina Potocka
served as
muse
to both
Romantic poet
Count
Zygmunt Krasiński
and composer
Frédéric Chopin
—who both wrote works in her honor?
Facts on topics related to Muse
Greek mythology
Apaliunas
, a
Luwian
deity of
Wilusa
(
Troy
) attested among gods in a treaty inscription, ca. 1280 BCE, is a likely precursor of
Apollo
of
Greek mythology
?
chryselephantine sculptures
(fragments pictured)
were monumental statues made of
gold
and
ivory
that depicted the
gods
in
Ancient
Greek temples
?
a major source for
Greek mythology
, the first
Vatican Mythographer
, survives in a single text in the
Vatican Library
?
according to
Greek mythology
,
Adonis
was slain by a
boar
at the foot of the
waterfall
in
Apheca
in modern-day
Lebanon
?
according to
Greek mythology
, the festival of
Delia
was instituted by
Theseus
after slaying the
Minotaur
(
pictured
)?
in
Greek mythology
Gorgythion
was one of the
fifty sons
of
King Priam
of
Troy
?
in
Greek mythology
,
Heracles
chased off the man-eating
birds
of
Lake Stymphalia
by playing
castanet
-like clappers called "
crotala
"?
in
Greek mythology
,
Antiope
was the only
Amazon
known to have married?
in
Greek mythology
,
Arion
(or Areion) was an extremely swift
immortal
horse
that could talk?
in
Greek mythology
,
Dorus
is the name of the son of
Hellen
who was the
eponymous founder
of the
Dorians
?
Apollo
Apaliunas
, a
Luwian
deity of
Wilusa
(
Troy
) attested among gods in a treaty inscription, ca. 1280 BCE, is a likely precursor of
Apollo
of
Greek mythology
?
Hermes
actor
Paul Scofield
came out of retirement in 1998 in order to play the part of
Hermes
in the BBC radio play
Troy
?
the three
caducei
on the
Flag of Brisbane
(pictured)
represent
Hermes
' role as the protector of
commerce
, and not their more familiar meaning of being associated with
medicine
?
Artemis
the museum of
Epidaurus
has a reconstruction of part of the entablature of a Temple of
Artemis
, dated to 370–310 B.C.?
Centaur
the
Archaeological Museum of Eretria
in
Greece
contains a 10th century B.C. terracotta
centaur
from
Lefkandi
which was discovered broken in two parts, each placed in a different grave?
Hephaestus
Desiderius Erasmus
nicknamed his academic opponent
Jacobus Latomus
(pictured)
"
Hephestion
," a reference to Latomus's distinct
limp
?
masked wrestler
Ephesto
is named after the
Greek god
Hephaestus
?
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