Article: Camenae

Article: ORIGINAL PRODUCTION WILL BRING ANCIENT GREEK MUSES ...
Evansville Courier & Press;  February 20, 2003 ;     345 words ...A dozen characters from Greek mythology will sing and perform in a Newburgh yoga studio Saturday in an original musical theater production. Tribe, a Southwestern Indiana percussion-based music group, will premiere "Modern Muses: Goddesses at Play" at 7 p.m. Saturday in aah Sanctuary!, a yoga studio

Article: Nymph
Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary;      335 words ... ... Atlantides ( Pleiades ) seven daughters of Atlas by Pleione. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 37] Camenae fountain nymphs; identified with Greek Muses. [Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 49] dryads divine maidens of the woods. [Gk. and Rom. Myth ...

Encyclopedia entry: Camēnae
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;      297 words ... ... nae, Italian goddesses perhaps originally associated with water, and identified with the Greek Muses since Livius Andronicus invoked the Camenae at the beginning of his Latin translation of Homer's Odyssey . They had a grove and a spring ...

Article: Horse Racing: 'I didn't intend to breed a jumps sire from the ...
The Racing Post (London, England);  March 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 1966 bought him his foundation mare, Camenae. In foal to the Diadem Stakes runner-up March Past when McCreery bought her, Camenae produced a filly named Menthe Frapee ... years after Menthe Frapee was conceived, Camenae made her first visit to Derring-Do ...

Article: Thoroughbred Breeders Association: AGM: McCreery rewarded with ...
The Racing Post (London, England);  January 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Mercer. His purchase of the modest three-year-old filly Camenae for 1,200gns in December 1966 launched him on a highly successful ... Stud in Warwickshire and later from Stowell Hill in Somerset. Camenae became the dam of High Top, winner of the 2,000 Guineas ...

Encyclopedia entry: Naevius, Gnaeus
Who's Who in the Classical World;      700+ words ... ... provided a divine, perhaps even a cosmic, setting for the 3rd-cent. clash of arms. Naevius claimed inspiration by the Camenae (Roman goddesses identified with the Muses) and used a metrical and verbal style hard now to distinguish from that of Livius ...

Encyclopedia entry: Ēgeria
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;      337 words ... ... sacrificed to secure easy delivery. She was worshipped in association with the goddess Diana at Aricia in Latium, and with the Camenae at a grove outside the gate known as the Porta Capena at Rome, where from a spring the Vestal Virgins drew water daily. She ...