Word: zeus
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...athletes who paraded into the stadium to begin the women's morning qualification competition entered through a 2000-year-old archway from a "holding area" beyond the stadium that houses the ruins of temples to Hera and Zeus the Olympian. In ancient days, of course, women had been excluded from the games as spectators, let alone competitors, under penalty of death. At 8:30 a.m., American Kristin Heaston shot her first of three qualifying puts to become the first woman ever to compete at Olympia. When later approached, as she sat on the lawn watching the men compete...
Gleeson, nearing 90, continues to issue Surrealist thunderbolts from his Sydney studio; a retrospective due at the National Gallery of Victoria in October should confirm his Zeus-like status. "Do not commit suicide," Gleeson wrote in 1941, "for Surrealism has been born." It lives...
...match made in mythological-heaven. In Greek lore, Pleiades is a group of seven sisters renowned for their beauty and immortalized by Zeus as a constellation. In the Harvard Bookstore, Pleiades is an obscure literary magazine published by Central Missouri State University. And in the Harvard social milieu, Pleiades is a recently formed quasi-sorority. FM played matchmaker, uniting the social club and the magazine to explore their eponymous obscurity...
...pushed "the envelope of how erotic you could go in a painting." Danaë, painted for Pope Paul III's grandson Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and using his girlfriend's features, actually shows a human making love with a god. And not just any god, but the big guy, Zeus, who took the form of a shower of gold to seduce Danaë. (For Zeus this was normal: he liked to dress up as a swan, bull, cloud or whatever when wooing the ladies.) If such godly shenanigans leave you cold, you can concentrate on a detail like landscape or jewelry...
...founder Abby E. Carruthers ’04, laughing. “It’s PLEE-UH-DEEZ.” In Greek mythology, the Pleiades are a group of seven sisters who were renowned for their beauty. The hunter Orion became smitten with the sisters, who asked Zeus for help in escaping his affection. He turned them into doves and they flew into the sky and became a constellation of stars...